Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
An iconic Visayan hit song’s festival remix is gaining an even wider audience in the digital music service Spotify. The song Ipanumpa Ko by Oh! Caraga previously featured on the band’s live radio performance at Wish 107.5 after making it as one of the finalists in the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) in the World Category …
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Between a galvanized iron fence along Pabayo Street in Cagayan de Oro City is a small opening that opens to what was once a bustling block of makeshift houses but is now only a bare square of raw earth. The name first came to my attention when I was doing a feature on Carlo Dorin, …
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One small step for COMCI, a great leap forward for Metro Cagayan de Oro One of Cagayan de Oro City’s most venerable medical institutions has just taken the first small step aimed at making the capital city of Northern Mindanao the leading center for kidney dialysis services in the region. Cagayan de Oro Medical Center, …
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Barangay Balubal will finally have its own Level III water supply system before the year ends. City Mayor Rolando “Klarex” A. Uy led city hall and barangay officials in breaking ground and laying the time capsule for the water treatment plant Wednesday, 18 January at the proposed plant site. As City Hall’s …
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The Masonic Districts of Region X in Misamis Oriental, Cagayan de Oro and Camiguin will host the 2nd Grand Master’s Open Golf Tournament at the Pueblo de Oro Golf and Country Club championship golf course on January 20-22, 2023. According to VW Alex Saldana, Golf Tournament Chairman and Masonic District Region X Grand Lecturer, they …
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Some seven decades ago, a monument was erected on 18 September 1952 in Camp Tiano, Simpo-ri, Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea, in honor of 1Lt Apollo B. Tiano of the 19th Battalion Combat Team (BCT), Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea (PEFTOK), of Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, who was killed in action during the Battle for Outpost No. 8 at …
The late former mayor of Cagayan de Oro Reuben R. Canoy and his lifetime partner in journalism and the arts Lorenzo M. Dela Serna have been honored as the Founding Fathers of Cagayan de Oro films. The two were accorded the Golden Giant Fish Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema during the awarding rites for the 3rd Cine de Oro Film Festival …
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There’s a growing wave of excitement sweeping across Uptown Cagayan de Oro as people and businesses move up to the booming district in search of greener pastures. This has been partly fueled by the vastly improved roads and bridges infrastructure to upland barangays like Bayanga and Dansolihon, arterial roads to Bukidnon, Davao and Cotabato which …
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A World War II veteran guerrilla fighter recently celebrated his 105th birthday, 77 years after the end of the Second World War. The simple celebration was held on November 12, 2022 at his residence in Medina, Misamis Oriental, although his actual birthday was still on November 17, since many of his relatives could not make it …
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A former Chapter President and National Trustee for Mindanao of the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) has been appointed as employer representative to the Regional Tripartite Wages & Productivity Board Region X, National Wages Productivity Commission, Department of Labor and employment for a term of five years. Ms. Vivien Magdaluyo Lawansa took her oath of …
