A season to remember

Radel Paredes 12/30/2017

President Rodrigo Duterte recently raised the question why we do not have a Lapu-Lapu Day. While other heroes are honored with national holidays, he asks why Lapu-Lapu, the first hero in the Philippines and, more importantly, a…

Continuing tradition

Madrileña de la Cerna 12/23/2017

As a child it was always a big struggle to wake up early for the Misa de Gallo. But I always went to sleep during the Misa de Gallo and this was because of the lengthy homily…

Were there kickbacks on Dengvaxia?

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 12/14/2017

I remember my experience when I worked in an LGU as an executive assistant to the mayor long time ago. It was then Mayor Socrates Fernandez, now a councilor of Talisay City, who hired me and assigned…

A concert to remember

Chris Evert Ruffolo 12/01/2017

IT WAS a concert that took many people on a trip back to a time when lyrics and melodies reign supreme. In an audience of more than 3,000 people inside the Pacific Grand Ballroom of Waterfront Cebu…

Hundreds show up to remember Bishop Camomot

USJ-R Intern Rosalie Abatayo 09/27/2017

ON HIS 29TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY THINK of what you can offer instead of what you can get in return, said Cebu Auxiliary Bishop Dennis Villarojo as he remembered the life of Archbishop Teofilo Camomot in a Mass…

Cebu militants remember Fr. Romano

USJ-R Intern Patricia Erlaine N. Luardo 07/11/2017

MEMBERS of the militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) gathered around a stone marker in Barangay Tisa, Cebu City, to light candles and offer flowers and prayers for the late Fr. Rudy Romano who went missing in…

July

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/01/2017

July begins. July I have often ignored, and so far I have not written about. It is almost an anonymous month, a nondescript bridge to an August remembered only because of the flash floods. At noontime I…

Martial law break

Stephen D. Capillas 05/25/2017

Cagayan de Oro City — It was sometime past 10 p.m. last Tuesday when news of President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law spread like wild fire on social media, and netizens in Mindanao were quite vocal…

Finding God in Jail

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/15/2017

  Part 5 Never count them out. Fr. Cresenciano Ubod, head of the Cebu Archdiocesan Prison Apostolate (CAPA), said those locked behind bars should be cared for, not judged. “It’s not that we don’t want them to…

Friends seldom seen

Raymund Fernandez 04/25/2017

We are scattered all over the world now, friends from an earlier time. Once, we were rooted here; together, inside this particular corner of the planet, this city, this particular street, these rooms, this house, that table.…

Osmeña: Remember the sacrifices of our brave Cebuano veterans

Nestle L. Semilla 04/09/2017

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña reminded Cebuanos about the sacrifices of fellow Cebuanos to achieve the kind of freedom we enjoy today. In his speech at the commemoration of the 75th Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor)…

Boy shadow blue

Francis B. Ongkingco 03/28/2017

You mean you don’t remember, Steven?” Krishelle frowned with disbelief. “I can’t really say, Kris. Maybe the tests and medications in the facility made me forget,” Steven squinted, trying to force himself to remember what Krishelle was…

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