November 17 last year fell on a Sunday. And an hour past daybreak on that day found me along an already busy public beach in Poblacion, Talisay City, munching on kamote and grilled squid while sitting elbow-to-elbow with others on a wooden bench facing a table of bamboo slats and Read more…
With a string of typhoons in the horizon, as the weather bureau reports, I found it timely that CMAS Dive Instructor Alfie Fernandez decided to have me and two others undergo his SARO training last Saturday. SARO is short for Search and Recovery (interchangeable with Rescue and Retrieval, depending on Read more…
With quarantine restrictions gradually easing, groups of divers are going back out to sea. But it’s not all for fun-in-the-sun just yet. For many, like Jose Mario Malilay, or Chester Sumalinog, it’s to clean. Related Story: SeaKnights recover Ghostnets in ICC ’20 Malilay, whose day-job is to fly airbuses for Read more…
Three loads of killer ghostnets were among the haul recovered in the Lapu-Lapu City leg of the International Coastal Cleanup last Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. Ghostnets is the general term used to describe fishing nets of nylon and lead weights that have been abandoned by fishermen after getting entangled by Read more…
Sambawan Island, formally the Sambawan Dive Camp and Marine Sanctuary, offers the weary a perfect slice of picturesque paradise. It has all a visitor would expect – a pearly-white sandy beach to frolic in, mildly calm and clear water to take quick dips and do water sports, and an easy-breezy Read more…
The Sotto Law or Republic Act No. 53, a piece of legislation enacted in 1946 to protect newspaper people from being arbitrarily forced to name their sources by the irate subject of stories, now protects all journalists. The expanded protection is contained in Republic Act 11458, which President Rodrigo Duterte Read more…
JOSMAN Aznar may have survived a hard life behind bars, but now that he’s out, his lawyer fears for his life. “This is because we have had experiences that we can only describe as condemnable,” Atty. Edgar Gica said in Cebuano, referencing media accounts of drug suspects turning up dead Read more…
AVID readers of Sun.Star’s business section from 1982 up to the year 2001 could not have missed Fred C. Espinoza’s bylines and articles. His name and stories came out day in and day out, like clockwork. “You could rely on him because he was seldom absent from work and never Read more…
Creating a communication plan for an advocacy campaign is a lot harder than it looks. A good one will have elements like key messages, channels, exposure values, engagement points, reach, level of traction, adoption indicators, budget, etc. A really good one will project a relationship between budget and the other Read more…
There are three must-haves for enterprises to succeed, teaches Peter Drucker. One, common goals. Two, shared values. Three, a commitment thereto. “Without such commitment there is no enterprise; there is only a mob,” he said. Common goals refer to simple, clear, and unifying objectives. That which the enterprise seeks to Read more…