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Continue reading →: P50 Wage Hike: A Cruel Charade in Manila’s Squalid SlumsBy Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — July 4, 2025 IMAGINE toiling 12 hours a day in Manila’s stifling heat, dodging jeepney exhaust and monsoon floods, only for the government to toss you a coin—literally. The Philippines’ much-hyped P50 wage hike, a pathetic 89 cents, is like offering a Band-Aid to…
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Continue reading →: The Great Education Heist: How CHED’s Corruption Robs the Philippines’ FutureBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 4, 2025 WHEN Maria, an 18-year-old from Davao, clutched her CHED scholarship letter, her family saw a lifeline out of poverty. A chance to study engineering, to rewrite their story. But a university official’s demand for a bribe shattered that hope. Unable to…
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Continue reading →: Hontiveros Under Fire: Is Alyas Rene a Victim or a Pawn?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 4, 2025 THE Senate has become a pressure cooker, and Senator Risa Hontiveros is turning up the heat. On June 30, 2025, she declared war, announcing an NBI complaint against the shadowy masterminds behind the “Alyas Rene” video—a bombshell clip where Michael Maurilio,…
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Continue reading →: Fame and Foul Play: The Celebrity Connection to the Sabungeros VanishingsBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 3, 2025 IN THE flickering haze of CCTV footage, Ricardo Lasco, a 42-year-old cockfighting aficionado, is a ghost in the making. Hands bound, face etched with dread, he’s shoved into a van by men cloaked in police uniforms. That was his final moment…
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Continue reading →: Justice or Intrusion? The Philippines’ Reckoning with the ICC’s ShadowBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 3, 2025 A Mother’s Grief, a Nation’s Divide In a Manila slum, Lita Santos kneels before a makeshift shrine, her son’s photo cradled by fading marigolds. “Seven bullets,” she chokes out, “and they called it self-defense. Where’s my justice?” Her son, a jeepney…
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Continue reading →: Circles of Connection: Karina Herrera Orozco’s Mandala MeditationsBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 1, 2025 IN THE quiet of Los Baños, where rice fields hum with ancient rhythms, Karina Herrera Orozco found her way back to the circle. Not the corporate cycle of agrochemical marketing, nor the frenetic pulse of Manila’s human resources offices, but the…
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Continue reading →: Echoes of Disaster: Herbosa’s Fight to Redeem Trust with QdengaBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 1, 2025 IN A Quezon City slum, a mother cradles her feverish son, praying it’s not dengue. Last week, her neighbor buried a child—another casualty of a mosquito-borne scourge that’s claimed 470 lives in 2025, with cases spiking 59% to 119,000 by May.…
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Continue reading →: Can Martin Romualdez Shatter the Speaker’s Curse in 2028?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 1, 2025 IN A sweltering Leyte barangay hall, House Speaker Martin Romualdez hands a cash envelope to a fisherman’s widow, her gratitude palpable amid the hum of fans. This scene, replayed across 5 million households through the AKAP program, is Romualdez’s calling card—a…
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Continue reading →: Fake News or Coerced Confession? The Explosive Alyas Rene Conspiracy UnraveledBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 2, 2025 THE Senate has become a pressure cooker, and Senator Risa Hontiveros is turning up the heat. On June 30, 2025, she declared war, announcing an NBI complaint against the shadowy masterminds behind the “Alyas Rene” video—a bombshell clip where Michael Maurilio,…
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Continue reading →: House Fights Back: Will the Supreme Court Crush the Senate’s Dismissal of Duterte’s Impeachment?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 1, 2025 THE impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte is a political volcano erupting in Manila, spewing constitutional chaos and dynastic warfare. The Senate’s brazen June 10, 2025, remand order—halting the trial before it begins—reeks of obstruction in a velvet glove. With the…
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