When Shuvee Etrata told her family she wanted to be an actress, her mother Jorena was initially apprehensive about the career shift.

CEBU CITY, Philippines — In a country where Catholics traditionally abstain from eating meat during Lent, one island quietly stands apart. On Bantayan Island in northern Cebu, some residents ...

Shuvee has been given the title “Ang Island Ate ng Cebu” – one that her mother fully supports, given her daughter’s deep roots in Bantayan Island. “When she was still little and my mom ...