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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Karl G. Ombion

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Ombion: Food sovereignty

OUR Negros Island has been devoted to sugarcane production since the early 18th century.Sugar industry contributes more than $1.89 billion to our Gross Domestic Product, and more than two million are directly sustained by the industry and another two to ...

From 7 hours ago

Ombion: Prostituted electoral system

SORRY, I couldn’t find a better description of our electoral system than to relate it with the condition of prostitution, that of a system where power and money commands the physical and dignity of a person.Some may not agree with ...

From 5 days ago

Ombion: Dangerous convergence

GALORE of social concerns have pointed to sugar and other sectors into a dangerous track this year and beyond.The sugar industry has once more entered a dangerous crossroad.Malacañang technocrats want it to succumb further to neoliberal policies. Industry stakeholders including ...

From 7 days ago

Ombion: Enforcer of good governance, 2

A COLLEAGUE who spent half of his life in government service affirmed to me that if the guardians and enforcers of good local governance do their job well, half of the problem of the state is already solved.He said that ...

From 10 days ago

Ombion: Enforcer of good governance

NOT errand guys of the mayors and other local government officials.Reports and feedbacks are everywhere that most municipal local government operating officers (MLGOOs) are poorly performing as overseer and enforcer of local good governance which is a big task given ...

From 12 days ago

Ombion: Beyond sugar economy

BECAUSE the monocrop sugar-based system of Negros no longer works normally, no longer sustainable, and much less an important driver to lift the region from the morass of a moribund industry, we need to look and work beyond sugar economy.This ...

From 14 days ago

Ombion: Negrense activist in the Senate

THAT’s Neri Colmenares.In a Senatorial forum Monday hosted by CNN Philippines, Neri demonstrated once more his unflinching stand for the people – the workers, farmers, fishers, OFWs, senior citizens and PWDs, youth and professionals.If I were to rate the seven ...

From 21 days ago

Ombion: PH agriculture, sugar, turning into mass grave

WITH the recent announcement by Budget Secretary Benjamen Diokno to liberalize sugar industry, by removing whatever restriction is left in agriculture per agreements in the Asean Free Trade Agreement (Afta) and World Trade Agreement (WTO), the government is in effect ...

From 26 days ago

Ombion: Growth of enterprises

IN BACOLOD is a manifestation of people's resiliency and creativeness in the face of economic difficulties spawned by Train 1 and 2 and other national and local factors.I am not sure in the province; looks like there's not much growth ...

From 28 days ago

Ombion: More busts amidst boom

CONTRARY to the positive 2019 business prospects by National Economic and Development Authority and among some members of the local business circle, I am certain that amid the local economic boom more serious busts will sweep the region now till ...

From 42 days ago

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