FACT CHECK: NO advisory in Antique to avoid fish after seaside cemetery collapse
An advisory circulated on FB warning people in Antique from eating fish, hours after heavy waves partially destroyed a public cemetery in the municipality of Sebaste.
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Award-winning filmmaker on surviving and thriving in the time of pandemic
The town of Pandan in Antique is in a state of anxiety these days.
Serendipitous finding of Visayan rice terraces leads to uncovering story of its people
While searching for dense forests through the Google Earth map, Emmanuel Lerona was surprised to see something different as he was looking at the mountain-area of Antique in Google Earth. “Instead of just light and dark areas to indicate peaks and slopes and ridges of mountain, I saw a very unnatural-looking feature that looked more like spider webs,”
‘John Denver Trending’ gets 4 screenings in town where it was shot
Pandan, Antique – Awe and shock and exhilaration from over one thousand students in this fourth class municipality greeted the first morning screening of Arden Rod Condez’s “John Denver Trending” at the Liberman Sports Complex near the town plaza.
John Denver’s silence: The Movie as seen by an Antiqueño
Silence was loudest at the movie hall a few seconds after the screen went black to end the film. The well-deserved applause was rather hesitant, allowing some time for the collective shock to settle.
Classical music takes back seat in PPO Iloilo and Antique tour
In a program that came as a mild shock to Iloilo City’s seasoned music lovers, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra under Herminigildo Ranera highlighted its recent Iloilo outreach concert with pop and disco music sending its audiences cheering and stomping feet with VIP guests swaying on their seats Friday night at the Iloilo Convention Center.
Dungug Kinaray-a
Whenever I tell people that I’m from Antique, the next question I usually get is “Where is that?”
Kinaray-a writing contest
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS KINARAY-A is the language spoken mostly in West Visayas. It is spoken in Antique, where I come from. Writer Alex de los Santos , author of the book, “The Rise of Kinaray-a”, said Kinaray-a is also spoken in some parts of Aklan and Capiz, most of Iloilo and even in
How Antique celebrated Evelio Javier day
By ALEX C. DELOS SANTOS TWENTY-EIGHT years ago, a murder was executed at high noon in San Jose, the capital of Antique in Panay Island that outraged the Filipino people struggling to free themselves from the clutches of a dictatorship. The assassination of Evelio Bellaflor Javier (EBJ) on Feb. 11, 1986 sparked the flame
Antique after Yolanda: making both ends meet
By ALEX C. DELOS SANTOS Photos from BANGON ANTIQUE FB and JUN TENS ANTIQUE province in the western side of Panay Island is one of the provinces in the Visayas that survived super typhoon site Yolanda/Haiyan. Reported casualties and deaths from this province had been minimal, the reason perhaps that media coverage has not
