ILOILO: HEART of the PHILIPPINES

An action-packed weekend kicked off Globe Football Para Sa Bayan 2014 Visayas held in Santa Barbara, Iloilo.  Santa Barbara Mayor Doc Dennis Superficial (in yellow) pose with the Globe Football Para Sa Bayan organizers With more than 1000 participants from various football clubs across the island of Panay, the two-day event was led by Globe Sports Ambassador and Ilonggo National Football Team player "Azkal" Chieffy Caligdong. Globe Football Para Sa Bayan is a grassroots program for the youth from underprivileged communities and serves as an inclusive platform for socially advantaged and less advantaged teams to interact and work together. It also gathers key movers in the football scene such as the Green Archers United where Caligdong plays as a left winger. It is the second time for Globe to conduct the sports activity in Iloilo (last year it was held in Barotac Nuevo) and it followed the Metro Manila kick off last month. Earlier, Caligdong also conducte...

Visitors to Dinosaurs Alive happening on February 15 to 21 at the op en space parking area of SM City Iloilo can step back in time to period between 65 to 245 million years ago. Featuring 10 life-sized dinosaurs on display in Dinosaurs Alive! in a spectacular outdoor Jurassic forest setting. The multi-sensory and interactive dinosaur exhibit brings inspiration, science and technology together where guests can feel, see and hear the sounds and movements of 10 full-sized creations made to replicate nearly every feature of the dinosaurs. Each of the animatronic dinosaurs is hand-carved and covered with a skin-like material. Highlights of Dinosaurs Alive! includes the lizard-like Stegosaurus, the meat eating Tyrannosaurus Rex, the three horned Triceratops, the flying Pteranodon and the beloved long-neck Apatosaurus. The dinosaurs have interactive consoles which allow guests to guide dinosaur movement so they can see how scientists believe each dinosaur moved its arms, tail, mouth and ey...