About the Author

Ms. Brojan was 20 when she started working as a reporter for a local paper in Cebu City in 1992 and later as correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, covering Cebu and Central Visayas.

Four years later, the Inquirer took her in as Chief of Correspondents, later Assistant Bureau Chief for the Visayas. In 2005, she was seconded to the now defunct Cebu Daily News, Inquirer’s sister publication as its editor-in-chief. In 2011, she returned to the Inquirer as Visayas Bureau Chief until June 30, 2025.

Ms Brojan received her Mass Communications degree from the University of the Philippines-Cebu College and Master’s Degree in Development Communication from UP-Open University.

Latest from the Author

18 hours ago

Cebu eyes eco-industrial park to turn waste into resources

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—The Cebu Provincial Government and its Japanese partners have launched a feasibility study for an eco-industrial park that would transform discarded materials into useful products and alternative fuels.

1 day ago

Developers flag rising barriers to Central Visayas housing

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY — Strong housing demand in Central Visayas is being tempered by regulatory delays, rising development costs and inadequate infrastructure, prompting developers to seek closer cooperation with the government to remove barriers to housing production.

1 day ago

INSIDER FOCUS | Raquel Choa takes Cebu’s sikwate to the world

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—Her love for tableya began while growing up in the mountains of Balamban in western Cebu. Now, that passion has taken her around the world.

4 days ago

Bakers bank on innovation, collaboration amid rising costs

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—Bakers have a recipe to cushion the impact of rising inflation and higher logistics costs on the industry: collaboration and innovation.

4 days ago

Cebu seen as a potential e-motorcycle manufacturing hub

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—Cebu has the potential to become a manufacturing and export hub for electric motorcycles if it streamlines regulations, develops battery-swapping infrastructure and attracts long-term investment in the emerging industry.

5 days ago

MICECON returns to Cebu after 13 years

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—Cebu has won the bid to host MICECON 2027, bringing the country’s largest gathering of professionals in the meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions/events (MICE) industry back to the province after 13 years.

6 days ago

Cebu business groups demand swift action on daily brownouts

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—The local business community is growing increasingly frustrated with the daily rotational brownouts that are driving up production costs, disrupting factory operations and discouraging foreign investors.

7 days ago

DOE sees relief from Visayas brownouts by Sept. 21

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—Cebuanos reeling from rotating brownouts will have to hang on a little longer.

7 Sep 2026

9:26AM

Daily brownouts may persist as Cebu power supply stays tight

By: Connie Fernandez-Brojan

CEBU CITY—Rotational brownouts may become a daily occurrence for Cebuanos in the coming days as local energy officials remain uncertain when the Visayas grid will fully stabilize.