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Hundreds of Mindoro Farmers Finally Receive Long-Awaited Land Titles After Decades of Waiting
Farmers in Occidental Mindoro province have received land ownership documents and had debts worth millions of pesos cancelled under government reforms. More than 2,000 farmers…
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Hundreds of Mindoro Farmers Finally Receive Long-Awaited Land Titles After Decades of Waiting
Farmers in Occidental Mindoro province have received land ownership documents and had debts worth millions of pesos cancelled under government reforms. More than 2,000 farmers in Occidental…
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Hundreds of Mindoro Farmers Finally Receive Long-Awaited Land Titles After Decades of Waiting
Farmers in Occidental Mindoro province have received land ownership documents and had debts worth millions of pesos cancelled under…
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Puerto Galera wins regional governance award for excellence
The coastal municipality of Puerto Galera in Oriental Mindoro has been recognized as one of the region’s top-performing local…
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P2.7-B in Payouts Awarded for Mindoro Oil Spill Claims
More than P2.7 billion pesos in claims have been paid to those affected by the oil spill caused by…
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Weather Specialist Debunks ‘Super Typhoon’ Hype, Confirms Potential Storm Development for PH
A weather specialist is urging the public to steer a middle path between alarmism and complacency as a new…
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Romel “Direk” Ferriol Bernardo
Bernardo Creative Ventures, Inc., the company behind Direk Fuels, Oriental Mindoro’s homegrown gas station chain, and Direk Builders, which rents out heavy equipment, is expanding its portfolio by venturing into online media and content production.
The company’s entry into news media is not surprising, as its founder and CEO, Romel “Direk” Bernardo, was a television writer, producer, and director for over 15 years. From 2002 to 2007, he served as a researcher, writer, and producer for GMA-7’s top-rating show Imbestigador before becoming the executive producer for ABS-CBN’s award-winning documentary program, The Correspondents.
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Hundreds of Mindoro Farmers Finally Receive Long-Awaited Land Titles After Decades of Waiting
Farmers in Occidental Mindoro province have received land ownership documents and had debts worth millions of pesos cancelled under government reforms. More than 2,000 farmers in Occidental Mindoro on Monday have been given formal land titles and had outstanding debts…
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PBBM Signs ‘Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act’ Granting Annual Allowance to Public School Teachers
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Couple Opens Riverside Coffeehouse, Hopes to Boost Local Tourism
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The Dolor-Leachon 2022 Super Fight: A Retrospective Examination
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Bulalacao, Lisap Bridge, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
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Panutsa, Pansiteria, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
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Domestic Tourism’s Long Road To Recovery
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PBBM Signs ‘Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act’ Granting Annual Allowance to Public School Teachers
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Couple Opens Riverside Coffeehouse, Hopes to Boost Local Tourism
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The Dolor-Leachon 2022 Super Fight: A Retrospective Examination
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Bulalacao, Lisap Bridge, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
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Panutsa, Pansiteria, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
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Domestic Tourism’s Long Road To Recovery
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Hundreds of Mindoro Farmers Finally Receive Long-Awaited Land Titles After Decades of Waiting
Farmers in Occidental Mindoro province have received land ownership documents and had debts worth millions of pesos cancelled under government reforms. More than 2,000 farmers…
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PBBM Signs ‘Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act’ Granting Annual Allowance to Public School Teachers
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Couple Opens Riverside Coffeehouse, Hopes to Boost Local Tourism
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The Dolor-Leachon 2022 Super Fight: A Retrospective Examination
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Bulalacao, Lisap Bridge, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
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Panutsa, Pansiteria, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
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Domestic Tourism’s Long Road To Recovery
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PBBM Signs ‘Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act’ Granting Annual Allowance to Public School Teachers
In a landmark event at Malacañang Palace, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has enacted Republic Act No. 11997, a pivotal piece of legislation aimed at bolstering the support for…
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Couple Opens Riverside Coffeehouse, Hopes to Boost Local Tourism
By Romel “Direk” F. Bernardo We don’t have water here, just coffee,” quipped 58-year-old Kuwaiti national Ahmeer Alkatan as I requested a glass of water after a scenic 30-minute…
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The Dolor-Leachon 2022 Super Fight: A Retrospective Examination
By Romel “Direk” Bernardo Three weeks before the recently concluded elections, this writer penned an article detailing factors that could help shape the outcome of the battle royale between…
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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…
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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…
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Domestic Tourism’s Long Road To Recovery
(This article was penned at the height of COVID 10 pandemic in 2020)By Romel “Direk” Ferriol Bernardo Businesswoman Flor Maliwanag-Keh should have been the busiest and proudest business owner…