Sustaining Heritage: A Glimpse Into the BACH CODE

An hour late, a robust discussion was already ongoing inside the Garcia Hall of the Provincial Capitol when I arrived. It is an informal consultative meeting on the proposed tourism code attended by women and men from different sectors passionate with sustainable development; a loose group with an open membership for all interested which now is dubbed the Bohol Advocates for Sustainable Tourism.

The Homecoming of Henri Cainglet

Henri Cainglet has come a long way.

The bold, textured abstractions in his paintings and sculptures have topped the bill in countless, distinguished art exhibitions and competitions here and abroad. His piercing, fertile imagination has kept him moving, then, sojourning, from one international city to another, from Manila to Singapore to New York to Amsterdam to New Delhi to Berlin to Kuala Lumpur and back.

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Wake up to a beautiful morning with Brownbuds this Tuesday (July 29).

Or miss their performance in ABS-CBN’s Umagang Kay Ganda.

Arya!

His model ships have sailed off faraway places, bringing with them treasures that smell of rice fields and banana plantations.

Bohol’s Tourism Frontliners are Shiny, Happy People

For one, steering animated tourists, be they a small party of three or a riot of a hundred, to the many a natural splendor of our island paradise (and getting them interested, all the way) requires charm, lots of it. So smile, people, smile.

But, more importantly perhaps, they, in the fore of Bohol’s tourism, have to excude brilliance. So shine, people, shine.