Jan 7
Duros CSR: Surrender to God
Fe Mantuhac Barino, 59, could not remember a time when her life was not affected by illegal drugs. The chief executive officer of Duros Group of Companies, a highly successful Cebu-based construction and real estate firm, has been challenged by relatives who are drug pushers and users, and she is…
Nov 9
Reshaping the Southern Landscape
Looking down from his 12-hectare mountain villa in San Vicente, Liloan, Cebu, Rafaelito Barino recalls how, even with management diploma, it was hard to get a job without the right connection. Eventually he became a freelance salesman, and soon found humself as the middleman between people with product to sell…
Jan 9
“FAITH COMES FIRST”
When they agreed to build it, no cost estimates or budget was ready. Time was against them. In 15 months, a three-level Pavilion to seat 15,000 delegates of Cebu’s biggest international conference to be hosted in January, was completed on time with zero accidents. “Our company is not that big.…
Jan 10
A P 500M ‘miracle’
Fe Barino of Duros Development Corp. says that when she and her husband Lito heard the archbishop ask if they could build the IEC Pavilion, they could not say no “because we feel that it’s also a privilege for us to serve the Lord” Part of the 25,754-square-meter pavilion in…
