Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel and volunteers collect debris covered with oil during a cleanup along the coast in Pola, Oriental Mindoro province, on March 8, 2023, days after an oil spill from a sunken tanker. PHOTO VIA AFP
Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel and volunteers collect debris covered with oil during a cleanup along the coast in Pola, Oriental Mindoro province, on March 8, 2023, days after an oil spill from a sunken tanker. PHOTO VIA AFP

IN his column last Monday, my fellow columnist Bobi Tiglao threw the government straight into the blades for its appallingly poor response to the still-unfolding oil spill disaster that is fouling the seas and large areas of the coasts of Mindoro, Antique and Palawan. He was absolutely correct about everything he said, but as far as I'm concerned, he was probably too kind.

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