Ingrid Alexandrea Delgado, Author at Tinig ng Plaridel

5 min

The political is personal in DUP’s ‘The Reconciliation Dinner’

Posted on 8 February 20238 February 2023
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado

It is in these moments that people begin to question whether they really know the people they love the most and, corollary to that, what lines they are willing to cross for the people they love.

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7 min

Christmas season offers little respite for struggling Manila street vendors

Posted on 18 December 202014 August 2021
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado

As the clock strikes eight on the first night of December, two wagons made of mismatched wood and patched-up polyester begin to light up a dark alleyway along the streets…

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[OPINION] #NasaanAngPangulo, but we don’t need another spectacle

Posted on 9 November 20205 February 2022
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado

The Philippine government has turned into a circus. Public service has become a show run by unfit clowns. Meanwhile, elephants in the room and closets full of skeletons abound as…

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[OPINION] We are not going back to normal

Posted on 25 April 20201 February 2021
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado

In the middle of a crisis once unimaginable, going back to normal may be the only thing we ask for. Only this time, normal is not where we are headed,…

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6 min

Nurses still not paid P30K salary despite 17-year-old law

Posted on 28 December 201916 October 2020
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado

After nine years of donning a nurse’s cap, Sarah Daño has seen it all. She used to handle 17 patients at once as a nurse trainee in a poorly-funded public…

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Himala: Isang Musikal: on the price of a miracle

Posted on 30 October 201930 October 2019
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado

Rarely is religion a point of contention among Filipinos. It has ingrained itself in the deeper mantle of culture, cementing its place as the lifeblood of a faithful country. Himala:…

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Lack of funding after free tuition law paralyzes student publications

Posted on 21 October 20192 February 2022
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado and Sofia Ines Abrogar

Student publications in state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines face one of their greatest operational hurdles yet: a funding loophole in the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education…