by btpo | Jul 7, 2009 | Headlines
Prepaid credits of mobile phones – popularly known as “load” – will now have longer expiration dates after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued new rules on Friday. Under Memorandum Circular No. 03-07-2009, loads with higher values will have longer expiration or validity periods. Credits worth P10 or lower will be valid for three days from the previous one-day expiration. Loads more than P10 up to P50 can be used for 15 days while credits worth more than P50 up to P100 will remain valid for 30 days. Loads more than P100 to P150 will expire at the end of 45 days while credits of more than P150 to P250 will last for 60 days. More than P250 to P300 will remain valid for 75 days while credits worth more than P300 will last for 120 days.These new rules will take effect 15 days after publication in newspapers. Currently, a P10 load is only valid for a day while a P30 load can be used within three days. A P200 load will last for 30 days and P300 worth of credits can last for 60 days. The credits’ validity will start upon confirmation receipt of prepaid load purchased, the NTC said. Newly-purchased credits will be added to unused loads, thereby extending the validity of the total loads. If a subscriber with an unused load of P20 buys P10 worth of new credits, the new validity period is 15 days. Accessing balance inquiry services through text messaging should be free of charge, the NTC said.
by btpo | Jul 7, 2009 | Headlines
Panglao Bohol International Airport is said to be on its first move of action. The notice of bidding for the long awaited Panglao Bohol International Airport is slated to be published on July 17, with the opening of bids and possible awarding to the winning bidder scheduled 43 days later as set by law. The governor of the province, Erico Aumentado had instructed Provincial Legal Officer Handel Lagunay to attend a meeting with the Officers of the Manila International Airport Authority in Manila to ensure that the timelines set earlier will be followed. Meanwhile, the governor takes pride in having a strong hold on the Bohol leaders to reassure President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of a unified government for the President not hesitate to support local projects for which the former leverages the internal revenue allotment (IRA) for counterpart funds. The governor, furthermore, has invited President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to inaugurate another 138 brand new classrooms in 68 newly constructed buildings in symbolic rites at the Bohol Cultural Center when the province celebrates its 155th foundation day on July 22, 2009, which coincides with the holding of the Tigum Bol-anon sa Tibuok Kalibutan.
by anyajulia | Jul 6, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The National Statistics Office (NSO) to survey Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) 2009 will start this July.
Data that will be surveyed are income from salaries and wages from employment; net share of crops; fruits and vegetable produced and/or livestock and poultry raised by other households; and other family income sources and family sustenance activities. The survey will also include other family entrepreneurial activities.
For family expenditures and other disbursements, it includes food, alcoholic beverage and tobacco, alcohol, fuel, light and water, transportation and communication and household operations, personal care and effects, clothing, footwear and other wear, education, recreation and medical care, furnishing and equipment, taxes, housing, house maintenance and minor repairs and other miscellaneous expenditures and disbursements. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Jul 6, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
PLAYING the advantage of attaining a record breaking sufficiency levels after decades of rice farming, local authorities hope to sustain the momentum and organizing all rice breeders for both hybrid and certified seeds come next, says Provincial Agriculturist Liza Quirog.
Now wanting to take a better grip at the adopted technological edge, she said an organized group sharing each other’s successes and failures can result to even better harvests for Bohol in the future.
On this, at the 2009 Sandugo Agri Fair, Quirog said they have deliberately scheduled rice genetics and seed banking forum to exactly keep the farmers in the loop on the developments and motivate them to enhance local rice into high yielding varieties.
In tandem with a Mindanao certified seed grower cooperative, the Department of Agriculture and its local counterpart along with Sangguniang Panlalawigan Agriculture Committee Chair Vice Gov, Julius Caesar Herrera would attempt to mold and streamline a local organization to keep track of and facilitate the exchange of technologies among town-based farmers.
With the aggressive campaign to make Bohol rice sufficient, the DA through the Agricultural Promotion Center and the local leaders pushed for more support through inputs and fertilizers which farmers can avail at low subsidized costs.
Coupled with the abrupt shift to high yielding varieties, farmers achieved flying productivity marks, one most growers are willing to duplicate if not top, this time while demanding for better seeds.
The development has also placed most local seed growers into experimenting on varieties that they can grow and keep for the future planting season.
In Bohol, we can assure that local growers can now supply the need for certified seeds but keeping the high seed standards can be enhanced when these people work together, Quirog reasons for the plan to pool these people together.
APC’s Eng. Eugene Cahiles has always insisted that going for the shift to hybrid and certified seeds alone would change Bohol’s productivity positioning despite the sad fact that vast ricelands here are a rarity.
Agriculturist Quirog added that the aggressive campaign to momentarily shift to hybrid rice and then later grow certified rice has tilted the balance and earned for Bohol respectable position in the region topping rice production sufficiency at 113%.
Ad as soon as farmers saw the difference in productivity, many have opted to go for hone-grown certified seeds at least now that they know such are available with the help of an NGO: the South East Asian Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment, she said. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jul 6, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, TBTK
HOMECOMING Boholanos attending the biennial Tigum Bol-anon sa Tibuok Kalibutan (TBTK) are still urged to undergo self quarantine proceedings, in the absence of detection facilities here against the dreaded AH1N1 virus, says Provincial Administrator Tomas Abapo.
In the same manner, locals who may be exposing themselves to the threat by mingling with homecoming relatives can just exercise the precautionary measures to keep them protected from the virus, according to Atty. Abapo.
This week, Bohol has seen the onset of a homecoming crowd from abroad intending to participate in the worldwide gathering of Boholanos to pool investors for locally identified projects for private sector funding.
Homing Boholanos from countries contaminated with the dreaded and highly contagious swine flu could indeed be bringing in the virus if they do not follow self-guarantine procedures as suggested by health authorities, a mediaman hinted.
Stressing the self-quarantine as a national policy, which the Department of Health (DOH) has instructed, Abapo said it should be applicable to all persons coming from different places abroad and measures for locals.
Atty Abapo, who spoke for Governor Erico Aumentado in his weekly the interaction with the media continued on by saying even President Macapagal-Arroyo set the example and has to go through the procedure. President Arroyo, who came from a marathon state visits in Japan, Brazil and Hongkong checked out at the Asian Hospital in Muntinlupa City recently without any signs that she was infected by A(H1N1) virus.
While stating not much of local monitors at the ports of entry, Abapo said there is no way Bohol could put up the monitoring system like the thermal scanner which is only installed in the country’s major airports and ports of entry from abroad.
Without the scanner to detect persons who may unwittingly carry the virus here, Abapo instead appealed for the honest observance of self precautionary measures suggested by the DOH as a way of keeping Bohol free from the virus.
He talked about covering the mouth when coughing or sneezing, doing away from welcome hugs, constant and proper hand washing.
In fact, he also asked the listeners to be more wary about the threat of dengue. (PIA)
