Cagayan de Oro City

We been posting about formerly mayor Jaraula’s pet project, the “Golden Mile”. After one year I have been back to look at the place again. I went to the riverside and wanted to take some pictures of the construction site but security didn’t let me in even as a visitor. So I had to do with [...]

While taking some pictures of the construction of the new city hall building I came accross a group of chess players near the entrance to the old city hall bulding. It turned out that a few adults and parents teach the next generation of chess players here. According to a woman who seemed to be one [...]

There are many traps with Philippine laws for foreigners living in the Philippines. Some laws can easily used against a foreigner if she/he has some jelous neighbors or other citizens. I just came accross this story of an American arrested in Ormoc City in the INQUIRER. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not true. At least the [...]

Close to the cogon market, in different side streets, one can see the crowded places where “ukay-ukay”, a Filipino phrase for used clothes, bed and table wares, are sold in a warehouse atmosphere. But it’s also sold in other places and markets around the city. My lady finds here always something she can use. Often enough [...]

“Kagay-an Festival”- Cagayan de Oro City’s main fiesta attraction in honor to patron Saint Augustine. Recently there are new and exciting events for tourists and residents at this years Kagay-an Festival 2009. We watched the crowd-drawing colorful activity of “Kagay-an Dance Festival”, a street dancing competition showcasing Northern Mindanao indigenous people’s dances on August 24. Photos by [...]

The youth took it for fun, some took it seriously and some even enjoyed the pork barbeque without a second thought. One of the last ones on the road up was this Philippine faithhealer who said he get his healing power when he carries the wooden cross up by himself all the way. HAPPY EASTER! PHOTOS BY GILBERTO [...]

Let me apologize for the bad quality of the photographs. The camera has a defect and the new one has not arrived yet.  For this reason there will be no linking to larger pictures. Pictures, images, photos, photographs of Cagayan de Oro on Maundy Thursday and Holy Friday in Malasag. The traditional purpose of Lent is the [...]

Out-of-school-youth artisans from all-over Northern Mindanao, who moved away from their native domains to search for a better life in Cagayan de Oro City, are showing their intrinsic talent in the indigenous design-inspired accessories they create. But more than fulfilling their creative yearning, the youth social enterprise they established in 2004 called Dire Husi, has [...]

Some maybe remember when we wrote about the banana plantation inside the Bolonseri Cemetry in barangay Camaman-an in Cagayan de Oro City before All Souls Day last year. We promised to follow up this story and here we are with more photos of Bolonseri and what is going on there. The bananas growing again between the [...]

The series of flashfloods that hit Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental has reached humanitarian crisis proportions on Thursday. Figures at the Cagayan de Oro Disaster Coordinating Council showed the disaster has affected 16,104 families or 83,321 individuals jampacked in various evacuation centers in 47 barangays or more than half of the city’s 80 barangays. Another fatality [...]