Youths, teachers share 2017 wish lists

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/05/2017

They call for higher pay, for millennials to use their talents positively, for an end to women’s discrimination A youth leader, a teacher, a young scientist and a women’s advocate are laying out their plans and hopes…

Romualdez urges students to learn from missteps

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/13/2016

He had seen the devastation brought by the Super Typhoon Yolanda firsthand and had championed the cause of persons with disabilities in Congress, but on Tuesday morning, former congressman Ferdinand Martin Romualdez was in a completely different…

Palma slams condom distribution in schools

Inna Mejia, Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/06/2016

CEBU Archbishop Jose Palma criticized the Department of Health’s initiative to distribute condoms in schools to combat the rise of HIV and AIDS among Filipino teenagers. The 66-year-old prelate said giving condoms will never address the problem…

Google’s DevFest 2016 draws over 1,000 participants

Morexette Erram 11/16/2016

Cebu is set to host the biggest tech-conference in Visayas with more than 1,000 programmers, technology enthusiasts, students, and digital experts registered to participate in the Google Developers Group (GDG) DevFest 2016 this November 19 at SM…

National Book Store holds Color and Calligraphy Fair in Cebu

Hayde Quiñanola 11/15/2016

HAVE you grown an interest in calligraphy or you’re already into it? Maybe you already knew which point size fits your writing, maybe not yet. In fact, maybe you’re already attached to one writing tool because you’re…

150 receive scholarships from province

Nestle L. Semilla 11/03/2016

At least half of the about 300 applicants were granted scholarships by the province for this school year’s second semester. Provincial Gender and Development officer Heddah Largo said that while they wanted to accept more students under…

Better lukewarm than absent

Rina Jimenez-David 10/21/2016

For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…

Some city scholars barred from entering condo

Margarette Managaytay 10/03/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said yesterday the city’s scholars are required to submit an endorsement letter before they could enter the city’s dormitory. Some scholars from the mountain barangays sought the help of Vice Mayor Edgardo…

Tom O: P5K for each UC-METC student

Morexette Erram 09/09/2016

If the Cebu City Council will allow it, each student of the University of Cebu-Maritime Education Training Center (UC-METC) Mambaling campus will be given P5,000 as payment for the inconvenience caused by the stench coming from the…

UP students to rally against drug killings

Carmel Loise Matus, Edison Delos Angeles 08/18/2016

Students of the University of the Philippines in Cebu will hold a rally at their school grounds late Friday afternoon to condemn the still unresolved drug killings in the country. Winona Colina, a UP Cebu students protest…

MassComm students in Cebu unite for tree planting activity

08/03/2016

As part of its efforts to reduce the impact of climate change, the Cebu Alliance of Mass Communication Students (CAMS) conducted a tree planting activity in Barangay Pung-ol Sibugay, Cebu City last July 30. CAMS is composed…

Joy & Elsie

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 07/22/2016

Joy and Elsie entered our lives a week after I gave birth to the twins in 2013. They were my mother’s students when she taught catechism at a public elementary school in Leyte. I needed at least…

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