By madrilena de la cerna
Tomorrow, Election Day, we will be making hard decisions in the choice of our public officials in the national and local level. For the very concerned citizens, they will be making tough decisions; for those who are not, everything has been arranged in various means. Remember the old commercial advertisement of Pepsi – We are all products of the choices we make! Whatever the outcome of the elections will be, we only have ourselves to blame or congratulate.
Posted: May 12th, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News,Uncategorized | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
The third Carcar Lecture held last April 13, 2013 featured “Gaba in Epifanio Alfafara’s Short Story” presented by Fely Letras, and “No Apologies: Si Sinforosa Alcordo ug ang Mahait Niyang Dagang” presented by Sonrisa Samson. Gaba is our concept of God’s punishment or the Filipino counterpart of karma, while dagang is Cebuano for the writing pen, hence mahait nga dagang means sharp pen.
Posted: April 28th, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
While working on my Review of Literature for my dissertation on women leadership in the mid 1990s, I came across a study by Patricia Lee Sky that focused on women as transformational leaders who seek to change individual citizens, their states, their societies, and the relationships among these. Three women national leaders were cited as examples. They were Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain, Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway, and Mary Robinson of Ireland. With the passing away of Margaret Thatcher early this week, I thought I should share how these three women exercised transformational leadership.
Posted: April 14th, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
What a fitting way to close women’s month 2013 on Easter Sunday! Though I missed the Women’s Congress, I participated in the Roundtable Discussion on Women’s Role in Transformative Politics on March 21 organized by the UP Cebu GAD Office and SIDLAK. It was their version of the national theme “Kababaihan: Gabay sa Pagsulong sa Daang Matuwid.” I was asked to share my study on the experiences and articulations of selected women leaders from the Dictatorship up to the Post-EDSA Period which I did after the Beijing Conference, 1997. I chose the portion where the ten women expressed their hopes and vision for women in the coming decades. This also serves as an assessment of what has been done and still to be done by women and for women two decades after Beijing.
Posted: March 31st, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
The second lecture series on the Writers of Carcar resumed last March 2 at the St. Catherine’s College Audio-Visual Room with Jovito Abellana and Diosdado Alesna as the featured writers. Althea Capacio raised many questions in her presentation “In Search of a Cebuano Epic” with concentration on Jovito Abellana’s “Ang Bayok: Aginid sa Kampong Tawilik.” Capacio’s conscientiousness in her research brought about a rich glossary of Cebuano terms.
Posted: March 17th, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
At the 15th year anniversary of Cebu Daily News last February 8, I did not realize it has been that long since I became part of it when it started in 1998 at a small but cozy office in Escario Street to a bigger, more spacious and comfortable building at the North Reclamation Area. Originally, [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
January ended with a significant activity honoring our local writers. The Carcar Lecture Series featuring writers of Carcar City took off last January 26 at the Audio Visual Room of St. Catherine’s College. A project of the Cebuano Studies Center of the University of San Carlos headed by Dr..Hope Sabanpan-Yu, the lecture series will run for six months with each month featuring two writers with the teachers of the Department of Literature of the University of San Carlos as researchers and presenters. The first lecture featured Marcel Navarra and Maria Kabigon.
Posted: February 3rd, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
At the Women’s Kapihan of the Cebu Women’s Network and Legal Alternatives for Women Center, Inc. last January 12 over DYLA, the topic centered on the Predictions for Women for 2013. Thanks to the staff of LAW Center, Inc., we were provided with interesting facts about some of these predictions. Expect to see amazing and impactful changes made by women in the area of politics, sports, business, medicine and more. Among the predictions is that violence against women cases in Asian countries is seemingly increasing when March of 2013 comes. Some will be condemned and sentenced to death penalty after case hearing but other judgment may lead the transaction to nullify or throw out the case.
Posted: January 20th, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
There are exciting events lined up for 2013. On the 25th of this month will be the last of the series of the monthly memorial lectures of the 75 families of distinction of Cebu City as part of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of the City Charter (2012-2013).
Posted: January 6th, 2013 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
As the year ends, we look forward to the new year but not without giving a backward glance to the year that was. As the holiday season draws near, I reflected on the events and the people that brought cheers from the national to the local level; from the personal to the academic from the year that was. I will always remember the brave and graceful stance of the Robredo women (Leni and her three daughters) after the tragic loss of their beloved Jesse, Secretary of Interior and Local Government, last August. Their courage and grace spared us from the irrational intrigues and faultfinding.
Posted: December 23rd, 2012 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
UP Cebu has a new dean after almost two years of uncertainty resulting from internal conflicts which led to the discontinuity of the term of the previous dean whose term officially ended last November 30.
Posted: December 9th, 2012 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
In a span of 47 years, Cebu City plays host to two great events – the fourth centennial of the Christianization of the Philippines in 1965 ( I forgot what month) and the Thanksgiving Mass celebrating the sainthood of Pedro Calungsod on Nov. 30, 2012.
Posted: November 25th, 2012 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
By madrilena de la cerna
The month of November is significant to the women’s movement especially in Cebu City. The 25-day campaign against Violence Against Women which spans from November 16 to December 10 (incidentally International Human Rights Day) was first conceived in the second half of the 1990s after the Beijing Conference and the rise of Women’s Solidarity in Cebu City.
Posted: November 11th, 2012 in CDN - Opinion,Cebu Daily News | Read More »
