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Calapan Port Resumes Operations After Super Typhoon Uwan, Delays Expected
Vessel operations at the Port of Calapan gradually resumed Tuesday morning, Nov. 11, 2025, following the lifting of storm signals, but passengers could face travel…
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Calapan Port Resumes Operations After Super Typhoon Uwan, Delays Expected
Vessel operations at the Port of Calapan gradually resumed Tuesday morning, Nov. 11, 2025, following the lifting of storm signals, but passengers could face travel delays as…
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Calapan Port Resumes Operations After Super Typhoon Uwan, Delays Expected
Vessel operations at the Port of Calapan gradually resumed Tuesday morning, Nov. 11, 2025, following the lifting of storm…
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Supertyphoon Uwan Leaves Over 30,000 Displaced in Oriental Mindoro
Super Typhoon Uwan left more than 30,000 people displaced in Oriental Mindoro province as the storm exits mainland Luzon…
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Mindoro under Signal No. 2 and 1 as Super Typhoon Uwan intensifies
The two provinces of Mindoro braced for Typhoon Uwan on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025 as the rapidly intensifying storm…
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DFA Mobile Passport Service in Occidental Mindoro Postponed Due to Typhoon Uwan
The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) postponed a Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) mobile passport service scheduled for Nov.…
FOUNDER’S Profile
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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Calapan Port Resumes Operations After Super Typhoon Uwan, Delays Expected
Vessel operations at the Port of Calapan gradually resumed Tuesday morning, Nov. 11, 2025, following the lifting of storm signals, but passengers could face travel delays as ships return from sheltering areas after Super Typhoon Uwan battered the country. The…
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Oriental Mindoro Basic Literacy Hits 84.2%, But Functional Literacy Lags at 69.6% – 132,000 Residents Lack Reading Skills
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Tricycle Driver Nabbed in Mamburao Buy-bust Operation
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Mental Health Medications to Residents
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Cong. Panaligan to Refile Bill on Mindoro Mining Ban
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Lifeless Body Found on Shoreline in Mamburao
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Schistosomiasis Study in Mindoro Wins Research Award at Ateneo de Manila
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Oriental Mindoro Basic Literacy Hits 84.2%, But Functional Literacy Lags at 69.6% – 132,000 Residents Lack Reading Skills
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Tricycle Driver Nabbed in Mamburao Buy-bust Operation
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Mental Health Medications to Residents
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Cong. Panaligan to Refile Bill on Mindoro Mining Ban
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Lifeless Body Found on Shoreline in Mamburao
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Schistosomiasis Study in Mindoro Wins Research Award at Ateneo de Manila
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Calapan Port Resumes Operations After Super Typhoon Uwan, Delays Expected
Vessel operations at the Port of Calapan gradually resumed Tuesday morning, Nov. 11, 2025, following the lifting of storm signals, but passengers could face travel…
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Oriental Mindoro Basic Literacy Hits 84.2%, But Functional Literacy Lags at 69.6% – 132,000 Residents Lack Reading Skills
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Tricycle Driver Nabbed in Mamburao Buy-bust Operation
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Mental Health Medications to Residents
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Cong. Panaligan to Refile Bill on Mindoro Mining Ban
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Lifeless Body Found on Shoreline in Mamburao
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Schistosomiasis Study in Mindoro Wins Research Award at Ateneo de Manila
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Oriental Mindoro Basic Literacy Hits 84.2%, But Functional Literacy Lags at 69.6% – 132,000 Residents Lack Reading Skills
Oriental Mindoro province recorded an 84.2% basic literacy rate among residents aged five and above, but functional literacy remains alarmingly lower at 69.6%, according to new government survey data…
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Tricycle Driver Nabbed in Mamburao Buy-bust Operation
Police arrested a high-value target in an anti-drug operation in Barangay Tayamaan, Mamburao town on June 20, 2025, authorities said Saturday. The suspect, identified only as “Ric,” 51, a…
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Mental Health Medications to Residents
The Provincial Health Office (PHO) of Oriental Mindoro is now providing free medications for mental health conditions to residents with updated prescriptions. The program offers 11 types of psychiatric…
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Cong. Panaligan to Refile Bill on Mindoro Mining Ban
Oriental Mindoro First District Congressman Arnan Panaligan has said he will refile legislation to ban mining across Mindoro Island as environmental groups continue to object extractive industries in the…
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Lifeless Body Found on Shoreline in Mamburao
Police are investigating after an unidentified man’s body was discovered Friday along the shoreline in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro province. The body was found in Barangay Tayamaan, authorities said Saturday.…
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Schistosomiasis Study in Mindoro Wins Research Award at Ateneo de Manila
A groundbreaking study on schistosomiasis participation in Oriental Mindoro has earned seven Ateneo de Manila University students the institution’s top research award. The fourth-year BS Health Sciences students —…