THIS year’s Sinulog earned at least P2.2 million from ticket sales alone. Sinulog Foundation Inc. (SFI) executive director Ricky Ballesteros said their income will still increase as they have yet to compute their earnings from the registration fees for the photo contests and other competitions. Ballesteros said the ticket sales this year are much bigger [...]

AFTER staying for five days in Cebu City for the annual ceremony, the holy image of the Señor Sto. Niño de Cebu finally returned home to Talisay City yesterday. Amid heavy downpour, the holy icon, which was blessed by the late Pope John Paul II in 1990, was brought back to Talisay City in a [...]

WITH the Sinulog over, the manager of the Cebu City Sports Center will now attend to repairing the rubberized track of the oval. The P40-million repairs will start in summer, not now when it’s rainy, Sports Center manager Ricky Ballesteros said yesterday. The track oval, which has Olympic dimensions, was built in 1994 in time [...]

NEWLY installed Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma thanked the faithful yesterday for their devotion to the Child Jesus and their decision to stay for the Basilica mass, despite the rain. “Thank you for enduring the long lines and the crowd, even though most of you are already soaked,” he said. Greet your friends and families this [...]

CEBU CITY (Updated 3:26 p.m.) — President Benigno Aquino III told thousands of Cebuanos Sunday at the Cebu City Sports Center that he found love in Cebu. The President is in Cebu City for the Sinulog 2011 Festival. Greet your friends and families this Sinulog season. Sun.Star covers Sinulog 2011 live! “I was told by [...]

CEBU CITY — “Pray to the Sto. Niño that it will not rain,” said Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, as heavy rains drenched the city on the eve of its fiesta and the Sinulog grand parade. But rain or shine, consider everything an offering to the Sto. Niño, he said. Greet your friends and families [...]

BETTER production, livelier performances and more surprises are anticipated much in the 31st year of the Sinulog festivities. Sinulog, the grandest festival of Cebu, is a celebration that reflects the cultural, social and spiritual traditions of the populace. Ricky Ballesteros, executive director of the Sinulog Foundation Inc. (SFI), said the preparations for this year’s festival [...]

O CALM her nerves, Cherry May Fernandez said she tried to forget she was performing in a singing contest. Reality contradicted her, but with a pleasant surprise. The song “Saloma Sa Gugmang Nahanaw,” which Fernandez interpreted, bagged the grand prize of the 31st Cebu Popular Music Festival last night at the New Cebu Coliseum. “Wala [...]

CEBU Archbishop Jose Palma said devotion to the Sto. Niño should lead devotees to work for peace in the community. “This (devotion) is the reminder of God’s tremendous love for us, manifested in his Son becoming one like us that indeed God through his love has chosen to share also in our limitations, that we [...]

OFFICIALS from various government agencies yesterday welcomed 171 returning Filipinos, or “balikbayans,” and foreign guests from the United States and Canada to participate in the Fiesta Señor celebrations. For 10 years now, the traditional welcome of arriving balikbayans and foreign tourists led by the Department of Tourism (DOT) is done every Thursday before the actual [...]