Organizers of the Dinagyang Festival, Iloilo’s top tourist attraction, have barred campaign materials of candidates in the May elections in judging areas.
Tens of thousands of revelers braved the heat to witness Cebu’s grandest and biggest celebration, the Sinulog Grand Parade.
Tens of thousands of revelers braved the heat of the sun to witness Cebu’s grandest and biggest celebration, the Sinulog Grand Parade, on Sunday
He was an unassuming hero who always looked after the welfare of others.
The body of Captain Jessup Bahinting, the pilot of the ill-fated Piper Seneca that crashed into the seas off Masbate on August 18, was transferred to Ginatilan town on Sunday morning.
It was a bittersweet moment for Margarita Bahinting, widow of Captain Jessup Bahinting, when she received a posthumous Lifesaver’s Award on behalf of her husband.
The room was filled with pilots and flight school students garbed in white polo and black slacks. They were not attending a graduation ceremony for the Aviatour flight school, but were bidding goodbye to their mentor, Capt. Jessup Bahinting, who, several days ago, left on a flight that turned out to be his last.
The room was filled with uniformed pilots and flight school students that one would think it was another graduation ceremony for the Aviatour Air flight school here.
Fisherman Gilbert Alcoser grew up thinking that if he could not catch fish with nets, he should use dynamites. Following unquestioningly what his father, Capriano, had told him on the island-barangay of Caubian, an hour away by boat from Lapu-Lapu City, he was unfazed even when some of his neighbors were killed or lost their hands due to dynamite fishing.
At least a million people descended on this city starting on Saturday to take part in what were originally religious festivities in honor of a revered image of the Child Jesus, or Sto. Niño.
The country’s pioneer in seaweed processing lost his battle against kidney cancer. Cebuano businessman Benson Dakay, 56, died on Jan. 5 at the Kindred Hospital Brea in Los Angeles.
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu Vice Gov. Gregorio Sanchez Jr. is not just remembered as a politician whose career spanned 15 years. He was also known as the man behind a popular probiotic health drink sold in the Philippines and at least 9 other countries. Sanchez, a heavy smoker and inventor of LactoPafi, died on April 29, [...]
