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Ombion: Updated, approved CLUP is a must for LGUs

IT’S quite clear in the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) MC 2019-172 on the compliance of local government units (LGUs) to have a formulated or updated Comprehensive Land Use Plan (Clup) and Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) by ...

From 218 days ago

Ombion: Dangerous crossroad?

LOOKS like our country is navigating towards a dangerous crossroad.ABS CBN franchise permit is up for renewal next month but it is also facing closure from no less the President himself who repeatedly stressed that he was pissed off by ...

From 226 days ago

Ombion: Development plan-based programs and projects

SHOULD be the rule for local government units (LGU) in putting forward programs and projects and their corresponding cost estimates, and not based on perceptions, whims, caprices, and political intentions of local politicians and even by the planning officers.Comprehensive Land ...

From 238 days ago

Ombion: Where is progress?

IN RECENT week, I frequented south of Negros for some development consultancy concerns. As I traveled back and forth, I just can’t hide my stinging observations on the places I passed by.Obviously, I came to conclude that no substantive changes ...

From 251 days ago

Ombion: Climate change and risk reduction-adaptive planning system

FOR two days the entire country and neighboring countries have their attention glued to the ongoing eruption of Taal volcano and its socio-economic and environmental impact on several provinces.Although this is less damaging than the Pinatubo eruption almost three decades ...

From 254 days ago

Ombion: War is US imperialist top business

THAT is all there is in the United States (US) assassination of Iran’s top general Soleimani. Trigger a war with Iran to prop up the arms industry of America in the Middle East, around it and the world.As an imperialist ...

From 260 days ago

Ombion: From oligarchs to state control

THAT'S my unsolicited advice to President Rodrigo Duterte vis a vis big water concessionaires who he hit for allegedly amassing so much profit from poor service to water consumers in NCR and then offer the same to Villar-owned Prime Waters ...

From 289 days ago

Ombion: Depoliticize barangay unit

INSTITUTIONALLY, to prevent it from being used by local politicians and dynasties for their vested interests, and as one of the chief sources of division, discontentment and widespread violence on the ground.By institutionally, I mean, transfer it from control of ...

From 294 days ago

Ombion: CCA-DRR ready communities

IT’S high time that the national government agencies (NGAs) and the local government units (LGUs) should change their paradigm on disaster risks reduction and management.It should develop a paradigm that empowers and capacitate the people to address and mitigate the ...

From 296 days ago

Ombion: Promotion for sale

I HAVE a friend who has been in public service for more than half of his life. In fact, he is up to retire in two or three years. Despite all the difficulties he had gone through, different places in ...

From 303 days ago

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