No campaigning in Mandaue City fiesta
ORGANIZERS of the Mandaue City fiesta celebration on May 8 said candidates are welcome to attend the festivities on the condition that they don’t campaign and wear T-shirts and post campaign materials.
ORGANIZERS of the Mandaue City fiesta celebration on May 8 said candidates are welcome to attend the festivities on the condition that they don’t campaign and wear T-shirts and post campaign materials.
Organizers of the Dinagyang Festival, Iloilo’s top tourist attraction, have barred campaign materials of candidates in the May elections in judging areas.
The Philippine Coast Guard on Friday said it would deploy personnel to help secure participants during the Sinulog Festival, particularly during the fluvial parade Saturday.
THE Mandaue city goverment called on various sectors to join its “multi-sectoral coalition” that would plan and implement its projects for the city.
With thousands of male devotees called voyadores bringing the image of the Our Lady of Peñafrancia from its home, Basilica Minore, to Naga Metropolitan Cathedral in a 3-kilometer procession called traslacion, the nine-day religious fiesta of the Bicol patroness was ushered in on Friday to reenact a tradition that started 302 years ago.
THE local government of Carmen in northern Cebu will celebrate it fiesta in honor of its patron, San Agustin de Hippo on Aug. 28 with the theme: “The year of faith: Going back to the roots of Christianity.”
Tacloban residents and visitors were treated to two colorful but competing festivals held two days apart in the run-up to the city’s main fiesta celebration in honor of its patron, Senior Sto. Niño, on June 30.
THE Order of the Discalced Augustinians (OAD) opened the devotion to St. Rita of Cascia to the general public as the fiesta celebration in her honor nears.
Seven major roads in Mandaue City will be closed to traffic today for the annual city fiesta in honor of St. Joseph, its patron saint.
As a single mom, she prepared and sold bibingka or rice cakes, one of Mandaue City’s best known dishes.
Residents here on Tuesday marked their version of Mardi Gras, through the Guling-Guling Festival, with a taste of tradition.
Santol, Kaong and Bayabasan are names not simply plucked out of nowhere for some villages in Silang, Cavite, but these attest to the abundance of fruits, as well as vegetables, in a town naturally blessed with lush greenery, rich volcanic soil and cool climate.
Two out-of-town groups bested 48 other dance contingents in the Sinulog Grand Parade on Sunday. Tribu Lingganay of Alang-Alang town in Leyte won in the Free Interpretation (FI) category, while Culturang Placereño with Masbate Dance Company of Placer, Masbate, bagged the top prize in the Sinulog-Based (SB) category. Each received P1 million in cash prize.
