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Friday, April 26, 2019

Karl G. Ombion

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Ombion: Agri-oriented development financing

NOT only to ease the pressure, but help the agrarian reform beneficiaries and small agricultural producers raise their capacities, and improve and expand their production.With the government strong adherence to neoliberal policies of liberalization, deregulation and privatization, our country’s agriculture ...

From today

Ombion: Expediency

ENCYCLOPEDIA defines expediency as the quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral. In short, “sariling kapakanan ang habol”.As the election further heats up, the already hottest summer we are agonizing now, expediency seems to inflict ...

From 3 days ago

Ombion: Development is about humans

NOT sand, stone, steel and cement. Yes, humans, not structures. And urban development planning is something that most urban officials are not prepared or trained to do because their concept of development is myopic or blinkered, at worse, politically drawn.As ...

From 10 days ago

Ombion: Justice not propaganda

JUSTICE not propaganda is what the victims’ kin demand. By justice, they mean no less than the culprits, accomplices and the brains must be brought to court and if found guilty be prosecuted and imprisoned.Yet, going three weeks now, the ...

From 15 days ago

Ompion: Making LGUs work

THIS is the biggest challenge right now for the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) central leadership and other national line agencies. Certainly, it also matters to the organized citizens and stakeholders aspiring and working for a truly ...

From 30 days ago

Ombion: Democratization and industrialization

THE present reliance of our region on monocrop sugar-based economy; heavy dependence on basic agricultural products and consumer goods; absence of domestic manufacturing for basic metal, chemical, capital goods, precision instruments, and the likes to produce what our agriculture, service ...

From 45 days ago

Ombion: Unity breaking up

UNITY breaking up on the ground as the local election nears.Unega and Love Negros 2019 bets in a number of cities and towns in the province are reported to be squabbling and undermining each other since the start of national ...

From 49 days ago

Ombion: Divergent initiatives

DIVERGENT Initiatives are good but will not solve the deepening crisis of monocrop sugar-based Negros economy.The initiative of the big sugar planters to repel the sugar import liberalization arguing that it will lead to the collapse of sugar industry and ...

From 51 days ago

Ombion: Issues, not personality

IS THE distinguishing mark of candidates a platform for change?Voters struggle for real social change.By raising the interlocking social issues - from genuine land reform, rural industrialization, employment and job security, social protection and services, to good governance, human rights ...

From 56 days ago

Ombion: Save: Alternative to commercial farms

IF THERE’S one interesting concept today in development work, it is the Sustainable Agro-ecological VillagE or Save being developed in practice by Altertrade Philippines Inc. (ATPI) in Negros and areas where it has local partners.Disappointed with many of its experiments ...

From 64 days ago

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