Karmela Melgarejo, Author at Tinig ng Plaridel

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UP student councils to implement Project KAAGAPAY systemwide

Posted on 14 February 2025
byKarmela Melgarejo

With increasing reports on gender-based violence within the campus, University of the Philippines student councils have adopted a resolution for the implementation of Project KAAGAPAY across the university’s constituent units.…

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TNP recognition codified, push for funding continues

Posted on 12 October 2024
byKarmela Melgarejo and Kyle Angelo Cristy

Since its establishment in December 1978, Tinig ng Plaridel (TNP), the student publication of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC), has been pivotal in covering…

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TIMELINE: FOI still in legislative limbo after 31 years

Posted on 31 August 202331 August 2023
byKyle Angelo Cristy and Karmela Melgarejo

The Freedom of Information (FOI) bill has been stuck in Congress for more than three decades despite calls from media and advocacy groups to uphold transparency in the government.

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In lead-up to jeepney strike, transport groups tell Marcos: Junk franchise consolidation

Posted on 5 March 20235 March 2023
byKarmela Melgarejo

With jeepney drivers and operators set to strike starting March 6, union leaders called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to cancel transport franchising guidelines that would give them only until Dec. 31 to join cooperatives to continue operations.

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Student councils to UP: Move the sem

Posted on 5 February 20225 February 2022
byKarmela Melgarejo

With the back-to-back onslaught of Typhoon Odette and the Omicron COVID-19 variant, student councils across the UP system had a united in their call to the university administration: #MoveTheSemUP.