The Cebu City Anti-Mendicancy Board (CCAMB) has identified 31 so-called mendicancy “hotspots” where City Ordinance (CO) 1631 (Anti-Mendicancy Ordinance) will be strictly implemented against ...
PLANNING to go caroling in Cebu City this holiday season? Ensure you secure the required permits, or you may face penalties.Lucelle Mercado, chairperson of the ...
Its chairman, Balkrishna Renke, was uniquely qualified for the job: Born into a group of mendicants, he spent his early childhood roaming among villages in western India, literally singing for his ...
The Arabic term ‘faqeer’ is commonly used across the Arab world and in the Indian sub-continent for mendicants or its most common Persian equivalent, dervishes. The word comes from the Arabic ...
The fact that sellers of The Big Issue stand up to ply their trade is a wordless demonstration of their equality with passers-by. They are not mendicants, but merchants. Standing up can convey parity ...
His political solidarity in the state is splintered. What remains of it are merely mendicants and lightweights, people who rely on Wike for handouts to keep afloat. Most politically consequential ...