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Karl G. Ombion

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Ombion: Riders clubs as enforcement partners

INSTEAD of being red-tagged as criminals or terrorists and helpless regular targets of the Land Transportation Office , Highway Patrol Group and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in their "kotong" operations.Motorcycle riders clubs are everywhere, practically in ...

From 8 days ago

Ombion: Covid ‘Dagdag-Bawas’?

STATISTICS is a mathematical system using scientific instruments that provides us a quantitative or qualitative picture of a situation, demographics, economics, politics or health. In the case of Covid-19, we always get official statistics from the Department of Health ...

From 10 days ago

Ombion: Recast and reorient local economy (2)

MY THESIS that the local economy is weak, unsustainable, not pro-poor and not resilient to national and global crisis has been proven right again during Covid pandemic; it is imploding.It is characterized by its being consumer-driven, dependent on imported goods ...

From 23 days ago

Ombion: Rethink and reorient local economic development

ONE important lesson I’ve drawn from the Covid-19 pandemic is not only that it demonstrated how weak and unprepared our entire health system is in dealing with pandemic and other contagious diseases, but it also exposed our local economy as ...

From 25 days ago

Ombion: Localization of anti-Covid campaign

LOCALIZATION of an anti-Covid campaign is alright but it needs full support from and monitoring by the central government. Otherwise, localization would just breed anarchy and turfism.The DILG has recently declared that the main fight vs Covid-19 is now localized ...

From 39 days ago

Ombion: ‘Doble Plaka’ onslaught

THE Republic Act (RA) 11235 or Motorcycle Crime Prevention Law and its revised IRR or simply “doble plaka” to riders is a double whammy move against the riders and motorcycle users, impoverishing them further through more fees and increasing their ...

From 44 days ago

Ombion: Mass testing, who cares?

AS OF TODAY, mass testing and pre-vaccine remedies do not seem to be in the government's priority list of urgent concerns. After two months or on way to 10 weeks, the government is still short of its main task of ...

From 46 days ago

Ombion: Governance that never sleeps

MORE so in times of crisis is a demonstration of Himamaylan City’s well and good governance.As the entire province of Negros Occidental moves to general community quarantine, the City of Himamaylan has a pack of unique stories in its two ...

From 51 days ago

Ombion: Post Covid transition challenges

THIS is in view of the reports that certain local officials plan to appeal to National Interagency Task Force against Covid-19 (NIATF) to extend the general community quarantine (GCQ) for the province and for Bacolod City until May 30.The NIATF ...

From 58 days ago

Ombion: New normal or same abnormal?

I WROTE about the emerging “new normal” in the past weeks. By “new normal” I referred to the government’s plan to normalize and institutionalize the state-imposed practices in the general community quarantine (GCQ) and enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), e.g. social ...

From 67 days ago

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