BACOLOD CITY: Politics may be behind the opposition of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo over the re-establishment of the Negros Island Region (NIR), Frank Carbon, executive director of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said.

Carbon called "shallow" Degamo's reasoning that there are language and cultural differences between Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental.

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