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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 9 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 12 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 18 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 47 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 52 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 54 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 61 days ago

Ombion: DILG to LGUs: Do your job, or else…

THIS is the tone of Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) when it issued in October 2019 the Memorandum Circular 2019-172, reminding the local government units (LGU) to finish their updated Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and new Comprehensive ...

From 68 days ago

Ombion: Food sovereignty

THE recent news reports that Philippines is now the top global importer of rice at 3.1M metric tons (MT) this year from 1.9M MT in 2018 is chilling and like a death foretold for our agriculture.All the while our people ...

From 73 days ago

Ombion: A biography book on Duterte

ALTHOUGH I haven’t read yet Earl Parreno’s book “Beyond Will and Power”, a sort of unauthorized biography of President Duterte, except for some overviews and initial critique that came out on newspapers and social media, I think it is a ...

From 80 days ago

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