Dacalos remembered as mentor, friend

Marites Villamor Ilano 12/29/2015

Retired guidance counselor Portia D. Dacalos was going to spend  Christmas  with family and friends in New York. She took a side trip to Brazil to  celebrate the birthday of her close friend and high school classmate…

Lahug fire leaves 300 homeless

Doris C. Bongcac, Julit C. Jainar 12/27/2015

Almost 300 individuals were left homeless by a fire which hit a thickly populated area in sitio Avocado in barangay Lahug, Cebu City last night. While no one was reported injured during the hour-long fire, acting Cebu…

Retired Cebuana professor killed in motorcycle accident in Brazil

Juli Ann M. Sibi 12/20/2015

A retired Cebuana professor known for her advocacy in gender rights died in a motorcycle accident while on vacation in Brazil last Wednesday. Portia Doroy Dacalos was riding  a motorcycle driven by Oliver Mann, the 43-year-old son…

DTI provides equipment for music sector

Vanessa Claire Lucero 12/17/2015

MUSICIANS, filmmakers and song writers have a new studio  they can use for an affodable fee in Cebu City. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) turned over last week a set of musical and filmmaking equipment…

UP Cebu chides Duterte rally organizers for mass torch lighting

Juli Ann M. Sibi 11/24/2015

An official of the University of the Philippines-Cebu (UP Cebu) took organizers of last Sunday’s rally for Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to task for lighting torches during the activity. (Read : ‘DUTERTE WILL RUN’ ) “One…

Forty years

Raymund Fernandez 11/15/2015

Sumad Kwarenta”  is ongoing at the Little Gallery of the University of the Philippines Cebu campus in Lahug. This is an art exhibition of works from alumni and teachers of the UP Cebu Fine Arts Program. Established…

Remembering what they started

Madrileña de la Cerna 11/01/2015

Every All Souls’ Day we remember the people who have gone ahead of us, people we worked with, people who influenced us, people we knew very well though not very close to us. Last year, I wrote…

UP modifies building design; only 3 trees to be earth-balled

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/24/2015

DUE to strong opposition from its students, the University of the Philippines Cebu (UP Cebu) has decided to modify the design of its additional buildings. With the new design, only three trees – nangka, coconut, and fabaceae…

UP Cebu won’t cut down trees for additional buildings

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/23/2015

Due to strong opposition from its students, the University of the Philippines-Cebu (UP Cebu) canceled earlier plans to cut down trees inside the school campus to make way for additional buildings. UP-Cebu dean Liza Corro said construction…

Expedient solution

Editorial 10/16/2015

“They paved paradise to put up a parking lot”,  goes the opening lyrics of the 1970 song “Big Yellow Taxi” by Canadian singer Joni Mitchell. The words may very well echo  plans by the University of the…

‘No more land to build on’

Juli Ann M. Sibi 10/15/2015

If the University of the Philippines-Cebu (UP-Cebu) had a choice, they won’t cut down any of the 19 trees to make room for proposed additional buildings. Based on the plan, nine trees will be cut this year…

UP-Cebu students, eco-advocacy groups oppose cutting down of trees in campus

Juli Ann M. Sibi 10/14/2015

STUDENTS and environmental advocacy groups voiced their opposition to plans by the University of the Philippines- Cebu to cut down nine trees in today’s public hearing on the issue. The trees have to be cut to make…

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