It’s important to listen. Development [and everything else] in a community falls flat on its face when “listening” does not occur and when the culture of the place is not taken in due consideration.
I will try to illustrate this crucial element of culture with two examples.
Let’s start with…
Almost all significant — and by significant, I mean “large and ambitious” — public works projects come parceled with fervent opposition and heartbreak.
When the Eiffel Tower — that wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France — was built by engineer Gustave Eiffel in 1887–1889 for…
On 13 July 2021, the Philippine Statistics Authority released the results of the new census. For Dumaguete City, it tallied a new population figure of 134,103 as of May 2021, roughly a 2% increase from the old census of 2015, when Dumaguete registered a figure of 131,377 people.
I’m not…
A 174-hectare reclamation project, dubbed “Smart City,” has been slated to be constructed along the Dumaguete shoreline. A signature campaign against the plan was slated today, July 11, at 3 PM in front of Bethel. …
First part, here.
In Contagion, the 2011 film by Steven Soderbergh that gained notoriety in our times as an unlikely prophet to the current pandemic [it was subsequently watched by millions, especially in the beginning months of 2020], the virus-ravaged world the film depicts starts going back to normal when…
It didn’t really set in, even right around March, when the national government started mobilizing its excruciatingly slow vaccination program and announced several categories of prioritization, with the first to get the jab being those in the A1 category — the frontline health workers.
We were magnanimous in our agreement…
By all accounts, the transmission occurred at home, but its origin was somewhere else: her husband’s office. He worked in a BPO — it involved working as client services manager and supervisor for foreign firms — and like many BPOs of its kind, their workplace was a hermetically sealed environment…
It is June 16, the first day of MECQ in Dumaguete City. It begins with some semblance of quiet. Journalist Raffy Cabristante, on the lookout for what he can share on the popular Facebook page of his radio station Yes The Best FM, sets out for the heart of downtown.
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There’s something incredibly rewarding in both the strangeness and familiarity you get as a package in a staycation. I’m not sure how I discovered the concept, but I’ve been doing this for a few years now in Dumaguete — and it has not lost its appeal every single time. …
For the longest time, it felt inevitable: lockdown in Dumaguete and neighboring towns meant lesser foot traffic, non-existent reservations, and newfound difficulties in securing supplies and upkeeping equipment. And so we lost a considerable number of our old culinary haunts. Most of us still miss KRI and Alima Café —…
