Whose road is it anyway?

For the longest time, we’ve been ranting about the sorry state of our streets, some damning out loud where they can, over the radio, online discussion forums, Facebook, Twitter, what-have-you, some, cursing in silence,  each time they try to swerve away from either those impossibly huge & deep potholes or the just too bleeping many cavities or simply those dirt roads — dirt roads in the city! — that take forever to get rehabilitated. Needless to say, roadtrips in and around Tagbilaran City (but it could easily be the same everywhere in Bohol, really) are no fun.

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Code Orange: 2011 International Women’s Day

An intermittently rainy International Women’s Day didn’t stop women from the communities to gather and march to celebrate the victories and struggles of the women’s movement.

The march started in Cogon Shrine, this city and through the main thoroughfare of Tagbilaran, the CPG Avenue, towards “agora”, now the Tagbilaran City Square.

One of the principal issues bannered in this year’s IWD celebration is the resounding “No to Panglao Reclamation” campaign.

Other issues highlighted as well, are the fight for women’s reproductive right, pushing towards the passage of the RH Bill; violence against women; land reform; and young women’s education.

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