Diminishing Catch in Overfished Bohol Waters
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.
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Bohol’s Heritage Landscapes as Backdrops for Visual Arts Festival
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.
Folk Society’s Christmas Musical Tradition Dying in Bohol
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.
Abu Sayyaf fails to dampen Boholanos’ fiesta spirit
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.
Bohol town observes Holy Week with more passion after thwarted terrorist attack
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.
Fisherfolks of ghost village in Bohol rise from earthquake ruins
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 sudden loss of their loved ones. Many, however, have picked up the pieces of their lives shattered by the powerful tremor, and have since focused
Singing policemen offer unique crime-busting approach in Bohol
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 boards the vehicle with his guitar, stands on the aisle behind the driver’s seat, and begins to sing “Round Bohol Rock.” The song, composed and
Christmas “Daygon” tradition fast disappearing
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 for the Birth), a fast disappearing folk Christmas musical tradition in the island province featuring dancing “pastores” (shepherds) and the Holy Couple being refused a
Internet-related Bohol project wins international award on sustainable fishing
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 Agency for International Development (USAID) that extends internet access to remote and underserved coastal communities in the Philippines won this year’s Public-Private Partnership (P3) Impact
Bamboo houses for villagers, cultural experience for visitors
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 wall of a bamboo cottage in Toril village in this town. “This was made by volunteer tourist students of the Asian Institute of Tourism (AIT)
