From a distance, courtesy of Facebook, I witnessed your graduation amid the soccer field, or what used to be one when I was an undergraduate student like you were. The bluegrass, I imagine, must have been turning…
HUNDREDS of school bags were given to the daycare children in Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City last week. Maribago Barangay Councilor Arvin Abing, with the help of his friends, initiated the donation after seeing that the beneficiaries have…
THE Cebu provincial government will allocate a bigger budget to build more classrooms to accommodate nearly half a million students that are enrolled this school year. “We have P40 million still in the budget for this and…
A least six classes were disrupted at the Naga Central Elementary School in Naga City in southern Cebu after a downpour early yesterday morning flooded its low-lying classrooms. Delight Mae Santos, a Grade 5 teacher, told CEBU…
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Central Visayas was expecting around 380,000 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program children beneficiaries aged 3-18 to enroll this year in the provinces of Cebu, Bohol and Siquijor. A total…
“WHEN you decided to become a teacher, you have also committed yourself to go back to being a student.” This was the conviction of Dr. Rouel A. Longinos, president of the Patronage of Mary Development School (PMDS),…
By now most schools in Cebu and the rest of the country would have adjusted to the K-12 program that the outgoing Aquino administration has implemented though we don’t buy the Department of Education’s (DepEd) assessment that…
A PREFABRICATED collapsible building that was used to house night dwellers is being considered to temporarily house 600 students from the city’s barangays. Cebu City Acting Mayor Margot Osmeña said the Cebu City Hillyland Dormitory (CCHD) in…
Years and decades from now, Pres. Benigno Simeon Aquino III will have been remembered for the illegal Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) that is expected to hound him and his Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, once they step down…
To end the summer season, Cebu City Marriott Hotel (CCMH), in coordination with the University of San Carlos (USC) Pathways Organization, spent an afternoon with incoming Grade 10 and 11 students from Canduman, Talamban, Mandaue City Comprehensive…
THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) conducted water sampling at the Cebu City Central School, the second of 11 schools it is visiting to help ensure their water supply is safe for the schoolchildren. MCWD community relations…
We hope that last week’s roundup of 55 minors by the Mandaue City police, while accomplished without a hitch, was not just for show because police officers in Manila had been doing the same thing and more…
