Unless the government gives full protection and support to the sugar industry, the industry will be gone after 2010, when all the tariffs on imports of agricultural produce, including sugar are removed. If the government adopts a regulation policy, then the sugar industry might survive, according to small sugar landowners. By Karl G. Ombion BACOLOD…

Since the Supreme Court ruling in December 2004 calling the 1995 Mining Act as constitutional, the government has turned its high gears to entice foreign mining companies to invest in the Philippines. Of about nine million hectares of potential mining land only 1.4 million hectares are covered by mining permits. An Australian company will start…

After deliberating on the impeachment complaint, is it possible that the House of Representatives will now discuss an issue as local as the plight of striking workers at the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo)? Progressive lawmakers hope so. BY ABIGAIL BENGWAYAN Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — Party-list groups Bayan Muna (BM, or People First), Gabriela…