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Lights Out in Paradise: Mindoro’s Half-Century Struggle for Stable Power
(Second Part of the Series) As evening falls on Mindoro island, residents rush through familiar rituals — hurried dinner preparations, last-minute homework, quick tallying of shop receipts. Then, like clockwork, the lights flicker and die,…
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Underwater Cable to Bring Relief to Power-Starved Mindoro
(First of 3 Parts) In a significant move to address longstanding power issues, the Philippines is set to connect the island of Mindoro to the country’s main power grid through an ambitious submarine cable project.…
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Bulalacao, Lisap Bridge, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
By Romel “Direk” F. Bernardo(Last of Two Parts) Before Mansalay and Roxas, my father’s church duties first brought him to Bulalacao, eastern Mindoro’s southernmost and most distant municipality, in 1983. Located about 170 km from…
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Panutsa, Pansiteria, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
By Romel “Direl” F. Bernardo(First of two parts) Long before massive and speeding Chinese-made passenger buses began passing through our island from Manila to Visayas and vice versa, or the fancy air-conditioned white tourist coaches…