According to Yoyoy Villame, on March 16, 1521, Magellan accidentally landed in Limasawa Island while looking for the Indonesian Spices Islands. Spain made Cebu its main operation center with Bohol as its adjunct base. The Jesuits and Augustinian Recoletos were assigned to evangelize Bohol. When Spain...
By December 2024 Davao’s population will be 2 million, double that of Cagayan de Oro. Our land area is 244,000 hectares, one of the world’s biggest. The Finance Department said that as of 2023, out of 147 cities we are the number 9 richest city...
Surot/bedbugs is different from kuto/hair lice. Surots live in beds, furnitures, especially those made of rattan and wood. We can sleep and sit comfortably if there is no surot. Last May 2023, France said they have a big surot outbreak. Because of COVID, from 2020 to...
In the 1930s, Davao’s population increased because of the abaca boom. We became the world’s number one supplier of Abaca through Japanese efforts. Davao was called Little Tokyo because we had the world’s biggest Japanese colony. After World War II ended in 1945, Bishop Thibault...
When a couple celebrates their 25th year of marriage, it is called “silver anniversary,” on their 50th year, golden anniversary, and on the 75th year, diamond jubilee. Looking back, I was an 8-year-old grade 3 student in 1949. My mother was a good friend of...
Pope Francis repeatedly stressed that reading, understanding and applying the bible in our daily lives will strengthen our faith and make us children of God. Bible comes from the Greek words Ta biblia meaning sacred books. It was written about 2,000 years ago first in...
I will be 83 years old this 2024. I accept that my days are getting shorter, my eyes are getting hazy, can hardly hear and talk, can barely move. I easily forget and easily get tired. I am a Jurassic body of aches and pains....
Mr. Antonio Lopez serves as the editor-in-chief of a business magazine, a PhilStar newspaper columnist, and a magna cum laude graduate in journalism from the University of Santo Tomas (U.S.T.). In his PhilStar column on December 21, he expressed his thoughts about Filipino 15-year-olds, stating...
Wear short Barongs or white long/short sleeve shirts with dark pants. This is how people want you to look in business. No long hair, no beard, no beads/trinkets, no jeans. Never say what you really think. Say what people want to hear with a...
Get a map of Davao City, put your left thumb on where San Pablo Church is and use your point finger (hintuturo) to make a circle, inside that circle will be parts of McArthur Road and Quimpo Blvd. Inside/near the circle are: 1. Mapua, 2....