by admin | May 6, 2016 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, May 6 (PIA)–Gitataw sa Commission on Elections (Comelec) nga dili sakop sa ilang gahom ang pag-regulate sa nahisulod sa usa ka political advertisement sa radyo o telebisyon.
Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa Comelec nga si Atty. James Jimenez, ang e-monitor sa komisyon mao ang panahon sa pag-ere sa matag campaign ads ug dili ang nahisulod niini.
Apan matud pa ni Jimenez nga may gitawag man nga ‘truth in advertising’.
Giingong dili usab mo-agi sa poll body ang nahisulod sa political ads ug wala usab proseso aron aprubahan pa nila kini sa dili pa e-ere.
Matud pa sa Comelec nga dili angay masorpresa ang publiko sa mga nanggawas nga negatibong political ads tungod kay dugay naman kining nahitabo.
Gawas niini, giingong dugay na usab gigamit ang mga bata apil na ang mga tigulang sa mga political ads sa mga kandidato.
Ang basehan pa gihapon sa Comelec sa ilang finance unit alang sa computation sa airtime sa kandidato matud pa ni Jimenez mao ang disclaimer sa tumoy sa political ads. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | May 6, 2016 | Headlines, National News
The Department of Trade and Industry launched the E-commerce Caravan in April 2016. The series of Negosyo Center Seminars on Expanding Your Business through E-Commerce were held in Davao City, Santiago City in Isabella, and Baguio City. In its first month, the E-commerce Caravan attracted over 700 prospective online merchants.
“By introducing e-commerce, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) nationwide are exposed to a wider range of options on how to expand their market reach and do business with ease,” said Supervising Undersecretary for E-Commerce Prudencio M. Reyes, Jr.
The e-commerce seminars are designed to engage MSMEs into becoming online merchants. The seminars provide a venue for e-commerce champions, gurus, and service providers to share their know-how and expertise on e-commerce. Participants learn how to avail of existing facilities such as e-payment, logistics, customer relations management, as well as how to strengthen brand presence, brand marketing, and ensure consumer protection.
“There are no geographical limitations, operation is 24 hours, 7 days a week, targeted buyers are close to 45 million in the Philippines alone, and businesses can already go beyond the brick and mortar setting,” Reyes added.
Based on preliminary reports from the regions, the four (4) seminars encouraged nearly 250 MSMEs to register on various e-commerce platforms and take the next step towards taking their business online.
Earlier this month, the E-commerce Caravan went to Iloilo City where 170 prospective online entrepreneurs attended the seminar.
“We are off to a good start. At the end of the year, our target is to enable over 2,500 MSMEs to take their business online. The e-commerce seminars will help us reach this goal,” said Director Virgilio P. Fulgencio, E-Commerce Office Head.
The e-commerce caravan supports the implementation of the Philippine E-Commerce Roadmap 2016-2020. PECR 2016- 2020 presents the strategic plans, policies, and other support measures to harness the benefits of e-commerce.
MSMEs are invited to participate in the free e-commerce seminars in May during the Negosyo, Konsyumer Atbp (NKATB) events: May 13 in Butuan City; May 24 in General Santos City; and May 27 in Vigan, Ilocos Sur
For those who would like to participate in the June 10 e-commerce seminar in Cebu City, interested parties may contact Victoria Diaz of the DTI Central Visayas Business development Division at 255.0036 local 602.
NKATB is a DTI initiative to bring an integrated menu of DTI services and programs to MSMEs across the country.
For more information on the services of the DTI, log-on to http://www.dti.gov.ph
by admin | May 6, 2016 | Editorial
Those who claim they play decent chess are a bounty. They are a dime for a dozen.
Those who do not claim however are few. And they are to be feared.
By their sweet disguise, they have successfully let down their foes’ guards enough to orchestrate a gambit and ultimately ruling the boards with a checkmate.
In the most recent developments in the upcoming polls, the man whom, many self-proclaimed political pundits tag as uncouth in language, immoral in ways and unstatesman in manner played a gambit.
It was a gamble he was sure could expose the weakness in the opponents’ defenses. And when it did, we expect him now enjoying the spoils like what every successful businessman would do. He did not.
While he could be sipping margaritas in a resort in Samal after he successfully cornered his Trillions; he stayed low.
Kill time was at hand and at the sign of a tilt, the bishops, the horses and the rooks moved in for the kill.
Just as the key pieces jumped in for the kill, Duterte’s daring move also exposed where the fire was coming.
And from there, the people saw the snipers from their high perch, and then, just like every sad telenovela, the viewers took the attack like it is for them.
So, instead of putting the man down, the attack enthroned him even farther, nearly doubling in the lead against his closest rival.
His move was a classic overkill of the pretentious in us.
While continually raving high in surveys, presidential front runner candidate Rodrigo Duterte fed fodder to the already dried brains of his opponents enough to burn them and their rabid supporters.
At least, this man who is rousing a hornets nest by his unpopular pronouncements, is supposed to be treated as trash in a game where every candidate desperately paints ultra clean image of self.
The fact is, he leaves everyone with self projected clean image like trash, despised and fittingly disposed. And we wonder why.
A known fiscal who picks a job representing the state in stamping out criminals, presidential survey front-runner Rodrigo Duterte, may have brought the fight out of the courts by throwing his hat late into the presidential fray.
Maybe the desperation in the way the courts work in this country did it for him and that augers well for electors with asphyxiated hope for change in the way things are running.
What is certain however is, in a city that’s has seen so much of the loony status quo of crimes and optional punishment, the fiscal used the harsh hand of the law to beat out a system that straightened out the bent system, at least in Davao.
The usual “if you can’t beat them, join them” seemingly works not for the man whose decision to transform Davao into exhibit number one in good governance is damning evidence.
Over allegations of using extra judicial killings, the alarmists including those who claim to be morally upright members of the Catholic Church howled.
Seeing this as a potential take down move, the opportunistic candidates all to eager to collect on the Duterte spoils joined in the barking bout.
Too bad for them, the gambit worked by exposing even the media oligarchs of their wrecked and tarnished stances of bias and whatever-it-is-called but objectivity.
So what do we have?
A guy who would not pass for a saint, not one ordinarily fancied as a political animal that oligarchs can tame.
He is one brilliant chess player who can exact a checkmate from the worst situation and force a stalemate from an attack.
In a country immersed in a tangle like this, it’s not a saint or an animal we need.
Picking him is a risk, and risking gets us somewhere.
by admin | May 6, 2016 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, May 6 (PIA)–Gipahibalo na sa Department of Education (DepEd) nga sa Hunyo 13, 2016 na magbukas ang klase sa tanang mga pampublikong tunghaan alang sa school year 2016-2017.
Base sa school calendar nga nahisulod sa DepEd Order 23 series of 2016, kinatibuk-ang 202 ang school days o adlaw sa klase sa mga tinun-an, apil na ang lima ka adlaw nga in-service training o INSET break.
Ang school year gilangkoban sa 54 ka adlaw alang sa unang kuwarter; 48 adlaw sa ikaduhang kuwarter; 48 adlaw sa ikatulong kuwarter ug 52 adlaw sa katapusang kuwarter, samtang matapos ang school year sa Abril 7, 2017.
Gipahinumdom ni DepEd Kalihim Armin Luistro sa mga pribadong eskwelahan nga ang pagbukas sa klase nila dili mosayo sa unang Lunes sa Hunyo ug dili molapas sa katapusang adlaw sa Agosto.
Sa maong school year usab sugdan ang full implementation sa K to 12 program sa tibuok Pilipinas, partikular sa Senior High School.
Base sa datos sa DepEd, naa sa 5,927 public schools ang magsugod og tanyag og Grade 11 sa 2016 ug Grade 12 sa 2017; samtang 4,827 private high schools, private ug public universities and colleges, ug technical-vocational schools ang nagtanyag na og Grade 11 sa 2016 ug Grade 12 sa 2017.
Kining mga pampublikong tunghaan mogamit na sa mga bag-ong lawak-tunghaan ug pasilidad. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | May 5, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, May 4, (PIA) –Himoon na sa Commission on Elections (COMELEC) ang dinungan nga pagsuway kon motrabaho ba ang Vote Counting Machines (VCM) segun sa gilagda niini sa dili pa kini selyohan aron dili na matandog.
Ang pagtesting ug pagselyo mahitabo sa 1,546 ka mga presinto nga ma-abtan sa VCM, himoon sa Mayo 6, alas 9:00 sa buntag, segun pa ni Atty Jerome Brilliantes, election supervisor sa Bohol.
Didto sa Kapihan sa PIA, gibutyag ni Atty Brilliantes, kinsa maoy natumbok nga election supervisor sa Bohol sa piliay sa 2016, nga nadeliver na sa COMELEC ang tanang mga ballot boxes ngadto sa Buhatan sa mga Municipal Treasurers sa kalungsuran.
Kini himoan gilayon sa pagsuway kon motrabaho ba segun sa gitakda niini, sa Mayo 6, o tulo ka adlaw sa dili pa himoong ang piliay, segun pa ni Brillaintes.
Napulo ka mga balota ang pun-on sa mga mapili nga mga botante ug ihungit sa VCM, suwayan kon mogawas pa ang resibo nga gipatik ug kon nagtugma ba ang mga unod niini segun sa gipili sa botante.
Kon mapamatud-an nga tugma na, iphon ang mga balota ug kon mapamatud-ang nagsibo na kini, sugdan na usab ang pagselyo niini aron wala si bisan kinsa pa nga makahilabut sa program hangtud nga kini buksan sa panahon sa eleksyon, pasabot sa COMELEC.
Tungod niini, alang samg may mga kahadlok sa gikataho nga mga plano sa pagpanikas pinaagi sa CVM, mahimong maniid sa mga proseso sa Final Testing and Sealing sa VCM, aghat ni Atty Brilliantes
Samtang sa laing bahin, tungod sa paghukom nga mohatag nag resibo ang VCM, nagtakda og tag usa ka minute ang COMELEC alang sa pagkahuman sa mga botante sa pagfill up sa mga opisyal nga balota, hinungdan nga buksan ang presinto sa may alas 6:00 na sa buntag ug tak-opan sa alas 5:00 sa hapon.
Dala sa gitakda nga 800 ka botante sa us aka presinto, miaghat usab ang COMELEC sa pagboto og sayo aron dili mawani. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
