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23/08/2026

TROLL INC. | Targeting Journalists Who Expose Corruption
By Mark Sison

Expose corruption in this country, and you become the story. Not the officials who stole. Not the money that vanished. You.

Within days the smear machine turns...paid hack, troll, closet crook, pick one and the public argument shifts from what you found to who you supposedly are. They don’t recruit reluctant employees for this work; they recruit narcissists, manipulators, and bullies, the kind who don’t just do the job but enjoy it.

The Payroll

Paid trolling in the Philippines runs on a real payroll. Rappler’s Maria Ressa first disclosed in 2016 that a troll working a political campaign could earn up to P100,000 a month; by 2019, GMA News obtained a rarer on-record breakdown from an operation leader who put entry-level pay at P30,000 and senior pay at P50,000–P70,000 monthly, with influencers commanding up to P30,000 per sponsored post.

That structure held through 2022, when a self-described campaign operative told a radio program that university-educated staff were earning P60,000–P80,000 a month. The money at the top dwarfs what individual trolls take home the Inquirer’s editorial board reported politicians paying $38,000–$57,000 a month for troll farm retainers running up to eight months, and a 2017 Oxford study found a Philippine president campaign spent roughly $200,000 funding its social media operation.

The Financing Trail

The financing trail runs through both government and private hands. The Commission on Audit flagged the Presidential Communications Operations Office in 2020 for “unrestricted” and “massive” hiring of 375 contractual personnel costing P70.6 million that year hires the agency called “social media specialists,” not trolls.

Twelve senators, including Vicente Sotto III, Risa Hontiveros, Panfilo Lacson, and Leila de Lima, later sought a formal probe into whether public funds were bankrolling troll operations. Beyond government money, researcher Jonathan Corpus Ong’s work found that PR firms and ad agencies not influencers were the actual architects behind these networks, operating as private contractors for political and commercial clients alike.

Facebook has taken down Philippine-linked networks multiple times roughly 220 associated pages, and a separate 200-page, 3.6-million-follower network tied to a famous PR strategist.

The Disinformation Machinery

Even self-styled “news” outlets have been payrolled to do this work. A flagship brand news portal employed writers who churned out roughly 25 unverified, engagement-optimized articles a day and helped spread disinformation targeting the administration’s critics, according to a former staffer’s account.

Then-Vice President Leni Robredo publicly objected that Malacañang was compensating another famous blogger who ran fake stories about her, asking why taxpayers should fund “a purveyor of fake news.”

A legitimate media group separately accused a state-run national communications agency itself of publishing a fabricated claim about international support for the government’s human rights record a wire service funded by public money being used, the union said, to launder propaganda under the appearance of legitimate journalism, undermining trust in honest reporters working the same beat.

The Targets

The consistent target of this machinery, across nearly every independent study, is journalists who expose corruption not incidental casualties, but the primary objective. Ressa has documented roughly 14 attacking comments for every supportive one on her page, a ratio researchers describe as orchestrated rather than organic; the Committee to Protect Journalists tracked how Rappler’s Pia Ranada was branded “corrupt” and “biased” and called a “traitor” at presidential press conferences.

A 2017 Oxford study found the previous administration deployed 400 to 500 trolls specifically to harass dissenters through individual targeting, and a 2023 academic study in Digital Journalism documented online mobs using threats of r**e, death, and doxing against reporters.

The Cost Offline

The pressure escalates offline, the Human Rights Foundation recorded 32 red-tagging incidents and at least 23 journalists killed between 2016 and 2022, including Percival “Lapid” Mabasa, shot dead after years of corruption reporting, while thousands of cyber-libel cases including one against Ressa have moved through the courts.

The Global Investigative Journalism Network put it plainly Rappler, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and Vera Files have all been singled out for sustained attack, with the clear aim of destroying them.

BapNews Mark Sison MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories NOW News, Opinion, Wit CLMA Pampanga Chapter Pampanga Media Circle

22/08/2026

VISION DOERS ART COLLECTIVE MENTORS YOUNG ARTISTS INTO “SINGSING NING KULTURA” FOR BUWAN NG WIKA
By Mark Sison

ANGELES CITY — Color filled the Audio Visual Room of the Museum of Philippine Social History Saturday, as more than 30 young artists, ranging in age from 5 to 17 years old, saw their work hung on gallery walls for the first time.

The exhibit, “Singsing Ning Kultura,” opened inside the Pamintuan Mansion as the centerpiece of Vision Doers Art Collective’s Buwan ng Wika celebration and as proof of how far a year-old idea has traveled. Founded July 26, 2025, the collective began as a handful of children with sketchbooks. It has since grown many times over, their canvases now lining the room where visitors will find them through September 30.

Among the works on display pieces by Aubree Suva, Amara Macapagal, Ava Magsino, Bran Suva, Calvin Quiballo, Carlyn Ricardo, Cole Laxamana, Colin Gozun, Frankie Gozun, Hee Soo Chung, Ingrid Jaiden Mercado, Kryz Dela Cruz, Kourtney Soriano, Lee Soo Chung, Matthew Sahid, Mayumi Dizon, Nami Tiotuico, Patricia Lozano, Psalm De Leon, Shiloh Mercado, Soo Yeon Chung, Sophia Abasolo, Truth Catalig, Ysabel Sahid, Ysabella Quiballo, Yuri Tiotuico, and Zoe Galang.

“It’s more than a display of artworks,” Chelssie Aven Pan, the collective’s founder and mentor, wrote in a letter inviting guests to the opening. For Pan, the exhibit was a chance to celebrate the children’s creativity and perseverance and to court the kind of partnerships that keep workshops running and materials in young hands.

Chris Pan, mentor of Vision Doers Art Collective, opened the program with the invocation. The lineup that followed were Amewin Samia, mentor of the collective; Bettina Arriola, curator at the National Historical Commission of the Philippines and the Museum of Philippine Social History; Norman Tiotuico, assistant secretary of the NCCA Committee on Visual Arts and lead convenor of the Pamitipun Artist Collective and the Aguman Kalalangan Sulat Kapampangan (AGKAS); Pan herself; Ingrid Jaiden Mercado, the collective’s president; and Pie Pan, its chairperson.

Tiotuico is a leading Kapampangan painter, sculptor, and installation artist based in Angeles City, best known for championing Kulitan (Súlat Kapampángan), the ancient script of the Kapampangan people. A Fine Arts graduate of the University of the Philippines, he considers himself a channel rather than an author, a medium through which the Creator works out spiritual and environmental ideas. That belief drives his practice...art as a visual document, keeping a vanishing language alive on canvas.

His major works speak to that mission. Kamulatan, a sprawling mosaic mural, anchors the rear wall of Holy Angel University’s Center for Kapampangan Studies. Kapaniualan (“Belief System”), an acclaimed installation of oversized simulated seeds..."seeds of belief” showed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. At Pampanga State Agricultural University, his Sibul Ning Kabiasnan Monument renders the folk song “Atin Ku Pung Singsing” entirely in Kulitan script.

His reach extends past his own art. He co-founded AGKAS (Ágúman Kalalangan Súlat Kapampángan), which runs workshops and exhibitions to pass Kulitan to younger generations, and helped build Santungan ning Kalalangan, Angeles City’s cultural and arts hub. He won the 2008 Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award for Arts and Culture; AGKAS later took MOKA’s Institutional honor for Culture and Heritage. A Rockefeller and Ford Foundation grantee, he has carried his curatorial work to symposia and festivals in Vietnam and Malaysia.

Also on the guest list was home-grown fashion icon Philip Torres, the Most Outstanding Kapampangan awardee behind Pidayit a design house he built from repurposed fabric scraps, or retazos, into a signature brand now synonymous with Kapampangan couture. Torres launched Pidayit in 2014 through a fundraising show for Museo ning Angeles, drawing on the Kapampangan word “pidayit-dayit,” meaning to patch together, and grew it from a single collection into something closer to a cultural manifesto. His work has since represented the province on the national and international stage. Joining him were local artists Arnel Garcia and Arnel Maniego, along with Richard Ayson, principal of Angeles Elementary School, their presence anchoring the exhibit within Angeles City’s wider creative and educational community and underscoring how “Singsing Ning Kultura” links its young mentees to an already-established generation of Kapampangan visual storytellers.

Sponsors and partners who backed the show received a certificate of appreciation, recognition during the program, and logo placement on event materials.

Chelssie Aven Pan NOW News, Opinion, WitnBapNews Mark Sison
MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories CLMA Pampanga Chapter Pampanga Media Circle

22/08/2026

FLOODING DOESN’T RECOGNIZE BOUNDARIES, NEITHER SHOULD OUR RESPONSE
"A call for a comprehensive, long-term flood management strategy for Pampanga"
By Rene G. Romero

The recurring flooding experienced by many communities in Pampanga deserves a long-term, science-based and coordinated response.

We recognize and appreciate the continuing efforts of the National Government, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the Provincial Government of Pampanga, our local government units, and other concerned agencies in implementing flood-control projects, dredging and desilting waterways, improving drainage systems, and protecting vulnerable communities.

At the same time, the persistence and increasing severity of flooding remind us that this challenge cannot be addressed through individual or localized projects alone.

Pampanga is part of the much larger Pampanga River Basin. Water flowing into our province comes from an extensive watershed covering several provinces in Central Luzon. What happens upstream ultimately affects communities downstream, particularly the low-lying areas of Pampanga and the Pampanga River Delta.

There are already important government studies and plans addressing the Pampanga River Basin, including the Climate-Responsive Integrated Master Plan for the Pampanga River Basin, earlier studies undertaken with JICA, and more recent DPWH initiatives involving floodways, retarding basins, upstream water-storage facilities, and improvements to the Pampanga River and its delta.

Rather than starting again from zero, perhaps the appropriate next step is to review, update, consolidate and accelerate the implementation of these existing plans into one integrated and climate-responsive Pampanga River Basin Flood Management Program.

Such a program should examine the entire system from the mountains and watersheds upstream, to rivers and tributaries, dams and detention basins, natural floodplains and wetlands, drainage and pumping systems, the Pampanga River Delta, and ultimately the discharge of water into Pampanga Bay.

It should also determine the appropriate role of dredging and desilting within the larger strategy. These activities may remain necessary in particular locations, but they should form part of a comprehensive engineering and environmental solution rather than become the principal response to recurring flooding.

We respectfully suggest that the concerned national agencies, together with the Provincial Government and affected LGUs, consider presenting to the public the current status of the Pampanga River Basin master plans and major flood-management projects what has already been completed, what remains to be implemented, what needs updating, how much investment will be required, and what realistic timetable can be established.

More importantly, implementation should transcend political and administrative terms. Flooding is a long-term challenge, and its solution may require many years of sustained investment. A comprehensive program should therefore continue regardless of changes in national or local leadership.

This is not intended as criticism of any agency or administration. It is an appeal for greater coordination, continuity and a common long-term direction.

Every year that communities remain flooded for weeks or months means disrupted businesses, damaged farms and homes, interrupted education, health risks, lost productivity and enormous economic costs. Resources repeatedly spent on emergency response and temporary interventions might achieve greater long-term value when complemented by investments that address the underlying causes of flooding.

Pampanga has an opportunity to become a model of modern, climate-resilient flood management not by fighting water project by project, but by understanding and managing the entire river basin as one interconnected system.

The question should no longer be simply: “What flood-control project do we build next?”

The more important question is, "What must we do, as one region and one river basin, so that the next generation of Kapampangans will no longer have to live with severe and prolonged flooding as an unavoidable part of life?”

We respectfully encourage our national government agencies, provincial and local governments, the private sector, academe, technical experts and affected communities to work together toward that long-term solution.

Flooding does not recognize political boundaries. Neither should our solution.

Pampanga Business Circle BapNews Mark Sison NOW News, Opinion, Wit MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories Pampanga Media Circle CLMA Pampanga Chapter

22/08/2026

PHILIPPINES' AGRICULTURAL MARKET-ACCESS AND IMPORTATION PROBLEM
By Felix Niño Asuncion

As Fellowship Director of the Pampanga Business Circle, I believe we need to look at our agricultural challenges beyond the usual response of providing “𝐚𝐲𝐮𝐝𝐚.”

Our farmers do not simply need more production support.

They need access to markets, efficient logistics, reliable distribution systems, better price information, stronger consolidation mechanisms, and better institutional coordination.

And we also need to confront another uncomfortable reality:

We have an importation problem.

We continue to bring in agricultural products from other countries while many of our own farmers struggle to sell their harvest at a sustainable price.

There is nothing inherently wrong with international trade or importing products when necessary. Imports can help stabilize supply, fill genuine production gaps, and provide consumers with choices.

But we have to ask:

Why does an imported product sometimes become easier, cheaper, or more accessible to our market than the product grown by our own farmers?

Why are we building stronger market opportunities for foreign agricultural products while our own producers struggle with farm-to-market roads, consolidation, cold storage, logistics, processing, financing, and access to institutional buyers?

As a chef myself, this is particularly disheartening.

Every time I see vegetables, fruits, rice, meat, or other agricultural products wasted because they cannot reach the right market, I don’t just see wasted food.

I see the farmer’s hard work being wasted.

I see the resources used to grow that food.

I see the income that could have supported a family.

And I see an opportunity lost to feed our own people.

Food should never become waste simply because our systems failed to connect the farmer to the consumer.

We often hear about “oversupply” whenever farmgate prices collapse.

But if we truly have an oversupply of food, why do we continue to import many of the same commodities?

The bigger issue is often disconnection.

Farmers produce, but buyers are elsewhere.

Buyers need volume, but farmers are fragmented.

Processors need consistent supply, but there is no reliable consolidation system.

Consumers pay high prices, while farmers receive very little.

And while our farmers struggle to move their products, imported goods can enter through established supply chains and reach our markets more efficiently.

This is not merely an agricultural problem. It is an institutional design problem.

We need to move from a culture of intervention after the problem happens to a system that anticipates the problem.

And this is why I welcome the direction of establishing a Food Hub in Clark.

The Department of Agriculture has been working toward a major food hub initiative in Clark, with a reported ₱4-billion investment, intended to strengthen consolidation, logistics, storage, processing, and market access.

The idea is exactly the kind of infrastructure our agricultural sector needs.

But here’s the difficult question:

Why has it taken so long?

This is not a new conversation.

Farmers, industry stakeholders, and business groups have been talking about the need for a major food logistics and consolidation hub in Central Luzon for years.

The concept has been promised before.

Plans have been discussed.

But implementation continues to face delays.

And while we wait for infrastructure to be completed, farmers continue to lose money, food continues to be wasted, consumers continue to pay high prices, and imports continue to fill market gaps.

We cannot afford to treat agricultural infrastructure as another project that can simply take years to materialize.

Because behind every delay are real people.

A farmer who cannot sell his harvest.

A trader who cannot move products efficiently.

A processor who cannot secure consistent supply.

A restaurant trying to source local ingredients.

And a Filipino family paying more for food.

Instead of asking only:

“How much assistance can we give our farmers?”

We should also be asking:

“Who will buy their harvest? At what price? How will it reach the market? Where will it be stored? Who will consolidate it? Who will process it? How can we make local products competitive? And which institution will be accountable for making the system work?”

Our farmers deserve more than temporary relief.

They deserve a working market system.

A stronger agriculture sector will not be built by production alone.

It will be built by connecting:

Production → Consolidation → Logistics → Processing → Markets → Consumers

And perhaps equally important:

Local Production → Local Consumption → Local Enterprise → Local Jobs → Local Economic Growth

We should support international trade, yes.

But we must also make sure that our own farmers are not structurally disadvantaged in their own market.

Before we ask our farmers to produce more, we should make sure there is a system ready to buy, move, process, and consume what they produce.

If we can align government, farmers, cooperatives, traders, logistics providers, processors, retailers, institutions, and the private sector toward one functioning value chain, we can create something more sustainable than ayuda:

dignified livelihoods, predictable markets, less food waste, better food security, stronger local enterprises, and a more resilient Philippine agricultural economy.

The conversation should no longer be:

“How much can we give?”

It should be:

“How do we build a system that allows our farmers to earn?”

And perhaps we should also ask:

“How do we make Filipino agricultural products competitive enough that Filipinos will choose Filipino products—not simply because they are Filipino, but because the system has made them accessible, reliable, affordable, and competitive?”

Because as a chef, I don’t want to see good food thrown away because nobody could connect it to a market.

And as a business leader, I don’t want to see our farmers permanently dependent on assistance when they could be earning through a functioning economy.

We don’t just need to produce more.

We need to connect better.
We need to move faster.
We need to compete better.
We need to reduce food waste.
And we need to make our own farmers part of the market—not merely beneficiaries of it.

That is the institutional reform we should be pursuing.

📸Philippine Star

Pampanga Business Circle BapNews Mark Sison MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories NOW News, Opinion, Wit CLMA Pampanga Chapter Pampanga Media Circle

22/08/2026

NAPAO RELEASES NEW VIDEO OF DAMAGED FLOOD D**E IN SUCLABAN, CITES OMBUDSMAN CASE AGAINST GONZALES
By Mark Sison

Mexico Liga Ng Barangay president and Sto. Cristo chairman Terence Sampang Napao released fresh video footage taken at 6 a.m. on August 22, 2026, showing what he described as continuing deterioration at the P94.55-million flood control project in Barangay Suclaban, Mexico, Pampanga, the subject of his plunder and graft complaint now pending before the Office of the Ombudsman.

The footage adds to evidence Napao has already submitted against former Senior Deputy Speaker Pampanga 3rd District Representative Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales Jr., five of his relatives and four Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region III officials, whom he accuses of steering the Suclaban contract to A.D. Gonzales Jr. Construction & Trading Co., Inc. (ADG), a firm the Gonzales family controls.

Napao has alleged the structure suffers from collapsed and cracked concrete slabs, hollow sections and exposed, rusting steel reinforcement. The new video, he said, shows those conditions persisting or worsening at the site months after he first documented them.

Napao filed his verified complaint at the Ombudsman’s Area Office for Luzon in early August, citing plunder, graft and possession of prohibited financial interest over the two flood control contracts, worth a combined P359.37 million. He had previously raised similar allegations in a September 2023 complaint that the Ombudsman dismissed that November; the current filing incorporates newer video and geotagged photographs, including images from July 30, 2026, alongside the latest August 22 footage.

Named respondents in the case include ADG president Aurelio Brenz P. Gonzales, now vice mayor of San Fernando; Aurelio M. Gonzales III; Alyssa Michaela M. Gonzales, now representative of Pampanga’s 3rd District; Aurelio Micheline M. Gonzales; and Zenaida G. Quiambao, along with DPWH officials Roseller A. Tolentino, Ignacio F. Evangelista, Anna Marie L. Tayag and Arthur Q. Santos.

Gonzales has dismissed earlier versions of the allegations as “old news,” saying he had already been cleared by the Ombudsman. He offered no comment when Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla announced that a separate case against him over alleged conflict-of-interest violations had reached the preliminary investigation stage.

As of this report, neither Gonzales nor ADG has issued a statement responding to the newly released August 22 footage. Gonzales, however, is reportedly set to inspect the project site today.

Terence Sampang Napao Office of the Ombudsman Philippines NOW News, Opinion, Wit BapNews Mark Sison MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories CLMA Pampanga Chapter Pampanga Media Circle

21/08/2026

Yes Brader Miguel Morales, family, friends, and acquaintances private group chats not exempt from cyber libel, harassment laws.

Sending defamatory or harassing messages in a “private” Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, or Telegram group does not shield the sender from criminal liability. Legal commentary holds that a message reaching other group members already satisfies publication, since the statement need only reach one third party besides the person defamed, even in a closed group. 

The Supreme Court upheld cyber libel’s constitutionality in Disini v. Secretary of Justice (2014), and in Causing v. People (2024) ruled 8-7 that cyber libel prescribes in one year, matching traditional libel,  with the clock starting from discovery, not publication. 

Screenshots forwarded to the victim or authorities can serve as evidence, and courts have already convicted people over posts that weren’t fully public Rappler’s Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. (2020) and journalist Frank Cimatu (2023). One flag: the “group chat = publication” reading comes from legal-commentary sites, not a Supreme Court case squarely on group chats worth attributing to commentators rather than settled law unless you can cite one on point.

BapNews Mark Sison NOW News, Opinion, Wit CLMA Pampanga Chapter MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories Pampanga Media Circle

🇵🇭PUBLIC AWARENESS🇵🇭

CYBERBULLYING & THE LAW IN THE PHILIPPINES

There's no single “cyberbullying” statute. Prosecutors instead apply whichever existing law fits the act.

Cyber Libel — RA 10175
Public online defamation. Penalty, one degree higher than ordinary libel roughly 6 years and 1 day up to 8–12 years imprisonment (sources vary on the upper bound, depending on how courts compute the “one degree higher” rule), or a fine of ₱40,000 to ₱1,500,000, or both. Courts may impose a fine alone under Administrative Circular 08-2008. Must be filed within one year of discovery (Supreme Court, 2023).

“Demolition Job” vs. Cyber Libel - the key difference

“Demolition job” is not a legal term it’s a media label for a coordinated, often paid smear campaign meant to destroy an individual’s or group’s reputation, typically involving multiple posts, fake accounts, or troll networks working in concert. Philippine law has no separate offense for it. A demolition job is prosecuted using the same cyber libel framework, but with these differences in practice:

(1) Multiplicity of counts - each defamatory post/article can be charged as a separate act of cyber libel, multiplying potential penalties and fines.

(2)Conspiracy - if organizers, funders, or coordinators can be identified, all participants may be held criminally liable, not just the original poster.

(3) Identity theft add-on - fake or “sock puppet” accounts used to amplify the campaign can trigger separate identity-theft charges under RA 10175.

(4) Harder to prove intent for a single defendant but easier to establish “malice” and pattern once coordination is shown, which can work against the accused.

In short a demolition job isn’t a lesser or greater crime on paper it’s cyber libel (and sometimes identity theft) committed at scale, usually meaning more counts, more defendants, and higher cumulative fines than a single libelous post.

📸Turnbull Lawyers

NOW News, Opinion, Wit BapNews Mark Sison MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories CLMA Pampanga Chapter Pampanga Media Circle

21/08/2026

🇵🇭PUBLIC AWARENESS🇵🇭

CYBERBULLYING & THE LAW IN THE PHILIPPINES

There's no single “cyberbullying” statute. Prosecutors instead apply whichever existing law fits the act.

Cyber Libel — RA 10175
Public online defamation. Penalty, one degree higher than ordinary libel roughly 6 years and 1 day up to 8–12 years imprisonment (sources vary on the upper bound, depending on how courts compute the “one degree higher” rule), or a fine of ₱40,000 to ₱1,500,000, or both. Courts may impose a fine alone under Administrative Circular 08-2008. Must be filed within one year of discovery (Supreme Court, 2023).

“Demolition Job” vs. Cyber Libel - the key difference

“Demolition job” is not a legal term it’s a media label for a coordinated, often paid smear campaign meant to destroy an individual’s or group’s reputation, typically involving multiple posts, fake accounts, or troll networks working in concert. Philippine law has no separate offense for it. A demolition job is prosecuted using the same cyber libel framework, but with these differences in practice:

(1) Multiplicity of counts - each defamatory post/article can be charged as a separate act of cyber libel, multiplying potential penalties and fines.

(2)Conspiracy - if organizers, funders, or coordinators can be identified, all participants may be held criminally liable, not just the original poster.

(3) Identity theft add-on - fake or “sock puppet” accounts used to amplify the campaign can trigger separate identity-theft charges under RA 10175.

(4) Harder to prove intent for a single defendant but easier to establish “malice” and pattern once coordination is shown, which can work against the accused.

In short a demolition job isn’t a lesser or greater crime on paper it’s cyber libel (and sometimes identity theft) committed at scale, usually meaning more counts, more defendants, and higher cumulative fines than a single libelous post.

📸Turnbull Lawyers

NOW News, Opinion, Wit BapNews Mark Sison MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories CLMA Pampanga Chapter Pampanga Media Circle

21/08/2026

Happy Advance Birthday, PBC Senior Fellow Rene G. Romero🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Some people teach by lecturing. You teach by simply being in the room...steady, sharp, meticulous & generous with what you know. That’s the kind of mentorship that stays with a person long after the meeting ends.

Watching you move through Pampanga’s business and civic circles, I’ve learned that influence isn’t about volume it’s about consistency. Showing up prepared. Speaking when it matters. Standing by a position even when it’s unpopular.

I just want to say thank you for the guidance, the candor, and the example. Kapampangans need more leaders who think like you do...long-term, clear-eyed & unafraid to take a stand for what’s right for this

Wishing you good health, more good years & many more rooms left better for your having been in them.

Here’s to more wisdom shared & more milestones ahead.

Pampanga Business Circle BapNews Mark Sison Pampanga Media Circle MAS Channel: Media, Affairs & Stories CLMA Pampanga Chapter NOW News, Opinion, Wit