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Geela Garcia
Geela Garcia is a freelance multimedia journalist and peasant advocate based in Manila, Philippines.
A proposed US$400 million China-funded bridge could wipe out the rich marine ecosystem of Paradise Reef, one of the few healthy reef areas in the Philippines’ Davao Gulf.
Businesses and locals on Siquijor have learned to live without plastic after an ordinance was issued in an effort to improve its waste management problem.
The black soldier fly’s larvae can break down food waste which makes up a large chunk of the city of Davao’s daily landfill but officials, aware the sole rubbish dump will soon be full, might build a new waste-to-energy plant; environmentalists say this would cause more pollution.
A bill seeking to ban almost all public smoking indoors is currently before the Philippine Congress – but advocates say education and community emphasis is also key to reducing tobacco addiction.
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In the deeply religious nation, abortion is a taboo, a crime and a sin. Yet hundreds of thousands of unsafe procedures happen every year, with sometimes horrific results.
Every day, some 500 teenage girls give birth in the Philippines, where preventing teen pregnancies was made a ‘national priority’ by President Duterte last year – yet teens still need parental consent to access contraception.
News of the beauty bible’s latest edition has fans swamping Twitter with mocked up covers featuring Filipino celebrities like Catriona Gray and Nadine Lustre.
The pageant, which has a popular following in Asian countries, was affected by the pandemic and politics; some called for a boycott to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
Christian Gaza hopes it will be second time lucky – he placed a similar ad in 2017 to woo actress Erich Gonzales but she turned him down.
‘Solar Scholars’ assemble and install portable generators in remote communities to give disaster-prone areas a source of backup power and promote renewable energy.
Influencers in the Philippines are feeling the chill as the taxman comes knocking with a warning that freebies are liable to tax too.
In the Philippines, beauty queens don’t just wear swimsuits and talk about world peace, they’re being used as weapons against the world’s longest running communist insurgency.
It’s a key ingredient in Filipino cuisine, but the large chains and companies that use it benefit from underpaid workers with little to no legal protection.
The relationship between Esmael ‘Toto’ Mangudadatu, 53, and Sharifa Akeel, 24, has become a source of tabloid fascination.
