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Tag: Bohol

  • Christmas Lights at Tagbilaran City Hall (Jane Yap)
    Categories Earth Files News

    Typhoon Odette Survivors in Bohol Celebrate New Lease on Life

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Dec 28, 2022 6:11 PM

    Boholanos celebrate the Christmas season with vigor a year after Typhoon Odette robbed them of holiday joy.

    Bohol, Tagbilaran City, typhoon, Typhoon Odette

  • Stilt houses along the shoreline in Ubay, Bohol
    Categories Commentary

    Waiting for another disaster in Ubay?

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Dec 05, 2022 1:43 PM

    It needs strong political will from both the local and national leadership to first protect its people from natural and man-made disasters. The people should be spared from a bigger disaster, that is, politics.

    Bohol, disaster, Tagbilaran City, typhoon, Typhoon Odette, Ubay

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    Diminishing Catch in Overfished Bohol Waters

    By Procopio Resabal Jr.  |  Sep 14, 2022 9:45 AM

    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.

    Bohol, Bohol Sea, diminishing catch, fisher-folk, Fisheries, fishing, ocean governance, Overfishing, whale shark

  • Leeroy New in Chocolate Hills Installation.jpg
    Categories Arts & Culture

    Bohol’s Heritage Landscapes as Backdrops for Visual Arts Festival

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Aug 03, 2018 6:50 PM

    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.

    Bohol, Leeroy News, Philippine Visual Arts Festival Bohol

  • Practising Daygon sa Pagkatawo in Toril, Maribojoc.jpg
    Categories Arts & Culture News

    ​Folk Society’s Christmas Musical Tradition Dying in Bohol

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Dec 21, 2017 3:26 PM

    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.

    Bohol, Daygon, folk carol

  • Miss Maribojoc runner up.jpg
    Categories Arts & Culture

    Abu Sayyaf fails to dampen Boholanos’ fiesta spirit

    By Cooper Resabal  |  May 22, 2017 8:25 PM

    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.

    Abu Sayyaf, Bohol, fiestas

  • Evacuees from war zone (Mike   Ligalig).jpg
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Bohol town observes Holy Week with more passion after thwarted terrorist attack

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Apr 13, 2017 11:13 PM

    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.

    Abu Sayyaf, Bohol, Inabanga

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Fisherfolks of ghost village in Bohol rise from earthquake ruins

    Oct 30, 2016 7:44 PM

    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 […]

    Bohol, bohol earthquake, Loon Bohol, Maribojoc

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Singing policemen offer unique crime-busting approach in Bohol

    Jan 19, 2016 11:11 PM

    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 […]

    Bohol

  • Categories Top Stories

    Christmas “Daygon” tradition fast disappearing

    Dec 25, 2015 9:40 PM

    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 […]

    Bohol, Daygon

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