VERA Files
The Bohol Sea is an important marine heritage site and one of the country’s richest fishing grounds, but overfishing has led to a diminishing catch.
The Philippine Visual Arts Festival Bohol 2018 caught Boholanos and Central Visayas by surprise with its varied art offerings, including art installations that used the island province’s iconic heritage landscapes as backdrops.
The folk carol tradition is considered an endangered folk Christmas community theater act now and is rarely practiced in the towns of Maribojoc, Antequera and Baclayon.
CALAPE, Bohol- The Gothic-style church has been repaired and repainted in time for this town’s fiesta.
At the provincial capital, Tagbilaran, the celebration started before the May 1 feast day with a 12-day novena priming up the community for the annual festivities in honor of its patron saint, St.Joseph, the worker.
INABANGA, Bohol. – Residents of this tranquil town are going through real suffering as they join the Christian world in the observance of Semana Santa recalling the passion of Christ some 2, 000 years ago.
Text and photos by COOPER RESABAL LOON, Bohol. Three years after the October 15 earthquake that hit Bohol hard, some residents of this island province are still haunted by the […]
By PROCOPIO RESABAL, JR TAGBILARAN CITY – In a bus terminal in the capital one morning, as a bus going to Ubay town fills up with passengers, PO3 Janew Villame […]
Text and Video By COOPER RESABAL MARIBOJOC, Bohol – Simeona Guilen, in her sixties, opens the pages of a discolored notebook containing the handwritten lyrics of “Daygon sa Igue-Igue/Pagkatawo” (Praise […]
By PROCOPIO RESABAL, JR The TV White Space partnership, an innovative collaboration between the Philippine Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the United States […]
By COOPER RESABAL, VERA Files MARIBOJOC, Bohol – A middle-aged woman sweeps her hands across what appears to be a mosaic painting of stylized young seedlings on the front […]