12.10.2009 | permalink
The dream of two Negros provinces to be an organic island is yet to be realized in the absence of an ordinance banning the use and propagation of Genetically Modified Organisms in Negros Oriental, even as Negros Occidental has already passed one. It was then Negros Oriental governor George Arnaiz and the late Gov. Joseph Marañon of Negros Occidental who entered into a memorandum of agreement in 2005 aimed at transforming the two provinces into an organic island.