The search is on for Queen Philippines 2017

Apple Ta-as 04/23/2017

PAGEANTS are not just about beauty, it’s also a platform to advance an advocacy, of bringing together different voices calling for love, mutual respect and equality. For Queen Philippines, it’s about fighting for transgender acceptance, continuing the struggle…

3 Cebuanas among 22 beauties vying for Aliwan Festival Queen crown

Intern 04/21/2017

  Three Cebuana beauties will be competing with 19 others in the Aliwan Festival Queen competition scheduled Friday night at the Aliw Theater in Manila. These are April Smith representing the Utanaon Festival of Dalaguete town, south…

Sports Tourism to turn Cebu into PH’s sports melting pot

Calvin D. Cordova 04/18/2017

  THE QUEEN City of the South will soon be the melting pot of elite and aspiring athletes as year-round sporting events are lined up for the Cebu City Sports Tourism. To be spearheaded by Cebu City…

CEBU CITY: The garbage ordinances

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/02/2017

(Part 2 of a special report on how the ‘Queen City of the South’ copes with one of its biggest problems) Garbage collection has always been a problem of Cebu City, a highly urbanized area – dubbed…

Pops Fernandez: Queen boss

Clint Holton Potestas 01/21/2017

THIS is Pops Fernandez, one of the first celebrities to launch themselves like comets across the universe without social media. Installed as the Philippines’ Concert Queen by the record albums, movies, and shows sold out since 1976,…

Thirteen candidates vie for Sinulog 2017 Festival Queen crown

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/06/2017

Thirteen lead dancers from different contingents will vie this year’s Search for Sinulog Festival Queen. The candidates for the Search for Sinulog Festival Queen 2017 are Ivy Tapic of the municipality of Asturias, Ceydney Go Basalo of…

The angel of recovery

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 12/17/2016

In 1794 William Blake published “Songs of Experience,” the second part of a two-volume work, the first being “Songs of Innocence.” Both were later put into a single compilation, entitled “Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the…

Queen marks 90th birthday, still as popular as ever

04/20/2016

London – Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 90th birthday today with a family gathering and a cake baked by a reality television star, as a new poll finds Britain’s longest serving monarch is as popular as ever.…

The King and Queen of Spain in Cebu

Jaime Picornell 02/20/2016

IN 1998 the Philippines celebrated the centennial of its declaration of Independence from Spain. The whole year was studded with commemmorative events. The first of these was an official visit by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia…

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