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Continue reading →: A Torch in the Frame: A Tribute to Pablo Gabriel MalvarBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 28, 2025 A camera lens and a fraternity’s torch: one captures light to immortalize, the other gathers it to scatter. In Pablo Gabriel Malvar, these twin flames converge—a filmmaker whose art is an act of defiance, an Upsilonian whose brotherhood is a crucible…
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Continue reading →: The Troubadour’s Last Note: A Tribute to Freddie AguilarBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 27, 2025 IN A Manila barrio, where the air hums with the weight of memory, a needle drops onto a worn vinyl of Anak. The crackle is a whisper from 1978, a confession that spills from Freddie Aguilar’s guitar like a river breaking…
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Continue reading →: The DILG’s Hail Mary to Swear in Duterte: A Legal, Ethical, and Political CircusBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 26, 2025 THE Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) audacious plan to let Rodrigo Duterte take his oath as Davao City mayor from an ICC detention cell isn’t just a long shot—it’s a constitutional clown car speeding toward a brick wall. Below,…
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Continue reading →: Keeping the Captain: Why Angara Must Stay to Save DepEd’s Sinking ShipBy Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — May 26, 2025 WHEN Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara seized the helm of the Philippines’ Department of Education (DepEd) in July 2024, he faced a system in freefall: abysmal PISA scores, a legacy of financial scandals, and teachers crushed by bureaucracy. Armed with technocratic…
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Continue reading →: Frasco’s Tourism Triumph: Will Marcos’s Revamp Derail a Philippine Renaissance?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 26, 2025 IN THE coastal town of Medellin, Cebu, a small café owner named Elena Castro wipes down tables as she shares her story. “After the pandemic, we had nothing—no tourists, no income,” she says, her voice steady but emotional. “Then Secretary Frasco…
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Continue reading →: Marcos’ Reset Needs Dizon’s Drive to Fix Our Broken Transport SystemBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 26, 2025 NOT long ago, no one in government dared admit it. The trains stalled, the buses overflowed, and the silence from the top was deafening. Then one transport chief stepped forward, called it broken, and started fixing it. President Marcos, this is…
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Continue reading →: A Child Starves, a Loyalist Stays: Marcos’ Moral CrossroadsWhy Marcos Must Choose Integrity Over Loyalty By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 25, 2025 IN A cramped Manila slum, 10-year-old Ana clutches a bowl of watery porridge from the “Batang Busog, Malusog” feeding program, a flicker of hope in her hungry eyes. But the man behind the program,…
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Continue reading →: Fields of Failure: Why Marcos Must Replace Tiu Laurel to Save Philippine AgricultureBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 25, 2025 IN A sun-scorched barangay in Nueva Ecija, a rice farmer named Mang Pipoy stands amid his wilting crops, his livelihood crushed not just by El Niño’s wrath but by a flood of imported onions that arrived as his harvest hit the…
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Continue reading →: From Cavite to Country: Remulla’s Proven Leadership Demands ContinuityBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 25, 2025 WHEN a Cavite mayor sounded the alarm last year about a kidnapping ring tied to an illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO), Secretary Jonvic Remulla didn’t hesitate. Within 48 hours, he mobilized a raid on the Island Cove compound in his…
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Continue reading →: Keep the Doctor Who Heals the NationBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 25, 2025 MR. PRESIDENT, in a nation where one in three families skips medical care because they can’t afford it, firing your most credentialed health chief isn’t a reset—it’s a surrender. As you weigh the fate of Dr. Teodoro “Ted” Herbosa, the Secretary…
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