by admin | Apr 21, 2016 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
MANILA, April 21, 2016 (PIA)–Nanawagan og tabang sa publiko ang Philippine National Police (PNP) alang sa pagpatuman sa duha ka adlaw nga liquor ban sa umaabot nga piniliay.
Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa PNP nga si C/Supt. Wilben Mayor, mahimong kuhaan og hulagway ang mga molapas sa liquor ban nga ipatuman sugod bisperas sa eleksyon sa Mayo 8 hangtud sa mismong adlaw sa piniliay sa Mayo 9.
Giingong mas maayo nga i-post sa social media ang mga makuha nga hulagway ug ipadala sa account sa PNP aron mahimuan sa tukmang aksyon.
Pahinumdom pa sa nasudnong polisya, bawal ang mag-inom sa kalsada o bisan asang pampublikong lugar ug bawal usab mopalit ug magbaligya og bisan unsang bino sa panahon sa liquor ban.
Dili usab mahimong moadto sa lugar sa botaranan ang mga nakainom og bino.
Giseguro sa PNP nga may mga polis nga magpatrolya aron hugot nga ipatuman ang liquor ban sa tibuok nasod. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Apr 21, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, April 21 (PIA)–Tungod sa nasinating pagpadayon sa El Niño phenomenon, mahimong madilatar ang pagpananom og humay sa sunod nga planting season.
Kini matud pa ni National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Mario Sande atol sa Kapihan sa PIA kagahapon didto sa NIA Central Visayas Training Center.
Matud pa ni Sande nga ang panahon sa pagpananom nga kasagarang ipahigayon sa bulan sa Mayo, posibleng masibog ngadto sa Hulyo ning tuig o mas sayo pa, apan mag-agad kini sa tambag sa The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA).
Tungod niining senaryo, gibutyag ni Sande nga sa kinatibuk-ang labaw sa 7,800 ektaryas, mga 5,983 ektaryas lamang ang ma-serbisyohan sa ikombinar nga 4 ka major irrigation systems sa Bohol – Malinao dam sa Pilar; Bayongan dam sa San Miguel; Capayas sa Ubay; ug Talibon irrigation.
Ang sitwasyon misamot sa ubang lugar diin tubod nga tubig lamang ang tinubdan sa ilang gagmay nga irigasyon.
Kahinumdoman nga ang PAG-ASA, nilakip sa Bohol sa 34 ka lalawigan diin padayon nga makasinati og grabeng epekto sa El Niño. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Apr 20, 2016 | Opinion
Political Phenomenon
By Manny Piñol
Many inexplicable and strange things are happening as the Presidential campaign comes to the homestretch.
Following the uproar generated by Presidential frontrunner Rody Duterte’s controversial narrative on the rape and killing of an Australian missionary in the infamous Pugoy hostage taking in Davao City in 1989, I actually expected the readership of this page, MannyPiñol, to plummet as it did after the Papal gaffe in November last year.
In November last year, following Duterte’s decision to run for President, the readership of this page which now has 210,000 Likes was about 4.9-million weekly owing mainly to the posts I made about the Davao City Mayor.
That dropped to about 2-million readers a few days after Duterte cursed the Pope whose visit caused a monstrous traffic in Manila.
I was expecting that to happen again following the Amoranto Stadium event where he made a controversial comment on the rape and killing of the Australian preacher.
But a strange thing happened.
From a weekly average readership of about 1.2-million since I have not been posting articles as often as I used to, the readership suddenly climbed to over 3-million.
As of this writing the readership average was at 4-million and I expect it to rise even further.
That was when I realised that people were willing to forgive Duterte for the gaffes and misstatements he made because their anger against this government and the system is real.
That was when I found out that the attacks and criticisms against Duterte did not shake or change people’s decision to elect him as the next President.
Broadcaster Pia Hontiveros also noticed the same trend in Twitter.
But the more dramatic manifestations that people were not affected by the assault on Duterte, including his so-called psychological condition, were the crowds which gathered in Bacolod City and in Iloilo City, areas which were believed to be territories of the administration party.
Why are the people so angry at this government and the system to the point that the President would get a Zero approval rating in Metro Manila.
Today, I saw four photos posted in the freedom wall by a Facebook user which showed Presidential sister and actress Kris Aquino landing in Dalaguete, Cebu to join a Liberal Party campaign using not one, but five government helicopters.
Immediately, my blood boiled because two weeks earlier, a forest fire broke out in Mt. Apo destroying virgin forests with centuries-old red cedar trees.
The government sent one helicopter to drop water on the firezone to no avail.
But in Dalaguete, Cebu yesterday, Kris Aquino was allowed to use five helicopters to join an LP campaign sortie.
Earlier, an elderly couple en route to the United States so the wife could get a much needed medical treatment was prevented from boarding their plane after they became the newest victims of the Laglag Bala syndicate at the International Airport.
Earlier than that, four policemen, including a lieutenant, were arrested after they confessed involvement in the killing of a businessman whose body was found inside a drum floating in a river in Metro Manila.
Still earlier than that, administration candidate Manuel Roxas’ wife, Korina Sanchez, was seen joining a Department of Agriculture equipment distribution activity in North Cotabato where she was heard asking farmers: “Gusto nyo bang yumaman? Gusto ni Mar yumaman kayo.”
Still earlier than that, victims of Typhoon Yolanda have been asking government why after two years, many of them were still homeless when the Philippine government received almost $2-B in donations from international organisations and foreign governments.
The anger has been building up and it has come to the point that people would rather cast their lot on a Presidential candidate who promises change, never mind if he spews out invectives and profanities.
This explains the unstoppable surge of Duterte in the surveys.
This explains why in spite of the relentless attacks waged by the mainstream media against Duterte and even the negative comments from the ambassadors of Australia and the United States of America, Duterte’s numbers are rising.
The outrage has reached boiling point and it will not cool down until after they have elected Duterte, the man who has promised change.
Unless the administration addresses the source of the anger of the people, there is no way the rise of Duterte could be stopped.
This political phenomenon is now the biggest headache for the other Presidential contenders.
(Photos of the government helicopters and Kris Aquino were sent by an anonymous Facebook user to the Facebook Page of Even Demata and were later posted on the Freedom Wall.)
Source (Manny Piñol)
by admin | Apr 20, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, April 19, (PIA) –More than the reported need for dredging the allegedly heavily silted Malinao Dam to increase its water holding capacity, the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) thinks of something more proactive.
NIA 7 Regional Director Mario Sande, at the recent Kapihan sa PIA revealed that the primary intervention NIA is pursuing is not much of the de-silting the dam, but rather on increasing the dam height by about two meters.
The move would increase the farm irrigation capacity to 470 hectares more.
On the other hand, de-silting the Malinao dam, according to farmers, could disturb the dam floor and reopen a hole that has been accordingly plugged to stop the water from draining out.
The proposals to de-silt the dam came amidst forecasts of a strong El Nino this year.
Malinao, which holds five million cubic meters of water irrigates a total of 3,500 hectares, a few hundred hectares short of its initial target of 4,740 hectares, according to director Sande.
Diminishing water flow from its watersheds and siltation has drastically rendered the dam’s water impounding capacity less efficient, NIA said.
Meanwhile, by increasing the dam height, the current holding capacity of the dam increases by three million cubic meters, or a total of 8 million cubic meters, Director Sande said at the forum which was held at the new NIA conference room in Dao.
The Malinao Dam, notably Bohol’s biggest artificial inland body of water collected from nearby watersheds is just one of the four major irrigations systems Bohol farmers are benefitting.
Through a visual presentation during the Bisita Opisina of the Association of United Development Information Officers (AUDIO) in Bohol, NIA authorities also said by increasing the dam height, the move would mean sacrificing about 50 hectares of farmlands which would be submerged.
NIA through Director Sande added that Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has prepared a feasibility study and detailed engineering work for the proposed plan to increase the dam height.
The plan was for KOICA to fund the dam refurbishment, he continued.
But recent developments in the country’s economy shelved foreign funded projects over local funding, NIA’s director who has extensive assignments in Mindanao irrigation systems bared.
When that happened, KOICA turned over the proposal to NIA, while local experts studied the feasibility and its design.
From the design, a total revamp has been suggested by experts, and a P600 million is now in to start off the new project, Sande shared.
Over this development, NIA 7 which holds its regional office in Bohol, hopes that initial phase of the project could be implemented in the 2nd to third quarter of this year. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
Spilling the heat of government service, Kapihan flowed out of PIA in Bohol to NIA, where Regional Director Mario Sande relayed NIA services and concerns to the Boholano populace. Sande said NIA is pursuing more of the increasing dam heights against de-silting for more practical reasons. Kapihan sa PIA is broadcast over DyTR. (PIA-Bohol)
by admin | Apr 20, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, April 20, (PIA) –It took no less than National Food Authority (NFA) administrator to start convincing Boholanos to go back to the basics and rethink of consuming the healthier option in rice.
Speaking while promoting and launching the brown rice, NFA Administrator Atty. Rinan Dalisay pressed that what is believed to be inferior, low class and shunned unpolished rice is in fact packed with more fiber, proteins, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins.
Brown rice, owing to its seemingly inferior texture is popularly known as food for the poor, but Philippine Rice Research Institute’s (PhilRice) advocacy campaign director Hazel Antonio said it is food for the rich.
While Antonio calls the unpolished rice and not the pigmented rice the brown rice, she also said PhilRice believes brown rice, which is now a top choice among the rich, is not just for the rich.
Antonio is PhilRice’s advocacy campaign director.
For all the costs, the option for the healthier brown rice is not as trendy here that the NFA has to start rolling its campaign here.
In Bohol, while brown rice varieties are common, most millers process the brown riceinto gleaming while, knowing that while is the more popular option.
For Bohol’s Rice Processing Complex manager Alvin Mante, all rice variety can be made into brown rice.
By more and more polishing, the brown rice comes out gleaming pearly white, but the polishing shaves of the important minerals, anti-oxidants and proteins, Mante said.
Brown rice, or the whole grain from the rice is better because only the hull is removed that the intact bran gives it its distinctive brown color, nutty taste and chewy texture, better than the well-milled rice, according to a flyer distributed during the endorsement ceremonies at the Island City Mall Activity Center, April 20.
Other than the nutritive value of the brown rice, Administrator Dalisay also said the recovery rate of the brown rice is very high.
It means, processing brown rice takes lesser loses which can mean savings.
Dalisay, who speaks Cebuano, guided Boholanos to rethink about their health and pointed out that pre Hispanic natives eat rootcrops, gains and brown rice.
It was only after the Spaniards imposed the white rice as the good rice, that we start consuming the white well milled rice, he elucidated.
And while brown rice sells like P60-P80 a kilo, in Bohol, authorities in coordination with the stakeholders are offering the healthier option for a very low P37 a kilo retail price, Mante informed.
As this went on, loca NFA manager Ma. Fe Evasco urged farmers to start planting.
“We urge the provincial agriculture and the PLGU to urge farmers to plant and increase brown rice production,” Evasco belted out. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
NFA administrator Atty Renan Dalisay pitches for the brown rice as the healthier and the alternative farm product that even as much of the world’s food insuffiency can be solved if people just think. (foto by Ric Obedencio/PIABOhol
