by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 14 (PIA)–Epektibo niadtong Disyembre 12, temporaryo unang hipahunong sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) ang pagproseso og dokumento sa mga OFWs sa siyam ka non-compliant o dili luwas nga mga nasud.
Matud pa ni POEA administrator Hans Cacdac, dili una mag-deploy ang nasud og mga OFWs sa Afghanistan, Chad, Cuba, Haiti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia ug Zimbabwe.
“All POEA operating units are hereby directed to temporarily hold the processing of documents of workers bound for the identified non-compliant countries,” matud pa ni Cacdac.
Kini base na usab sa rekomendasyon sa Commission on Audit (COA) sa POEA nga temporaryong suspensohon ang deployment sa mga nahisgotang nasud.
Sa pagkakaron, naa sa 194 ang gi-ilang compliant o luwas nga nasud alang sa mga OFWs base sa Amended Migrant Workers Act.
Ubos sa balaod, tugotan lamang sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ug POEA ang deployment sa mga OFWs sa mga nasud nga sertipikado sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) nga luwas ug kaya nga hatagan og proteksiyon ang mga Filipino workers.
Kinahanglan usab dinhi ang paghimo og bilateral agreements tali sa Pilipinas ug ang host countries aron seguradohon ang maayong kondisyon sa mga OFWs nga magtrabaho sa nagkalain-laing lugar sa kalibotan. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, December 15 (PIA)–Neither Governor Edgar Chatto nor the Bohol Peace and Order Council (PPOC) received any formal copies of the fact finding mission results which a peasant group sent to investigate alleged human rights violations in Trinidad.
But, despite not being furnished any report on the International Fact Finding Mission (IFFM) which Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) organized to dig on alleged human rights violations committed by the military encamped in San Vicente, Trinidad, Gov. Chatto sent out at least two memoranda directing concerned government agencies to act on the matter in the complaint.
The proactive Chatto said despite not getting the copy of the mission results, he asked concerned agencies to address the allegations and for LGUs to conduct assemblies to talk to the people about the allegations.
In September, the IFFM talked to the governor at the Mansion, went to the Special Forces camp in Carmen before proceeding to San Vicente where they interviewed residents to establish the truth of the Hugpong sa mga Mag-uumang Bol-anon (HUMABOL) complaints of alleged of human rights violations.
According to Rafael Mariano, APC Chairperson, national chairman of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and IFFM member, “farmers in Sitio Panaghiusa [San Vicente] are being harassed.”
He cited that 802nd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army, have been encamping within the vicinity of San Vicente, and together with Capitol’s Community Development Program-Purok Power Movement, have been threatening the operation of the Talibon-Trinidad Farmers Association (TTFA) rice mill which serves about 30 Bohol barangays.
After the IFFM finished their mission however, not one of the members went back to furnish formal report, sources at the PPOC and the Office of the Governor confirmed.
Instead, the IFFM published its findings of the allegations in a local newspaper.
“We afforded them the courtesy of a reception at the mansion, the very least they could have done to show good faith was furnish us copies of their findings so we can work on our end,” added member of the PPOC who was also at the Mansion courtesy call.
Despite the failure to show good faith, Governor Chatto asked the Department of Agrarian Reform, Philippine Army, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, concerned local government units including concerned non government agencies to respond to the allegations of violations.
At the PPOC, DAR representative Marcelito Concepcion confirmed that, with the Chatto letter, DAR revisited Sitio Panaghiusa and conducted forum with the residents.
The people confirmed that they petitioned for a camp to be set up in their barangay, he said even as he added that they surveyed the subject lot where the camp sits. There was no conversion, it was a grazing area and the camp sits only on a thousand square meters, Concepcion added.
A directive also tasked local government units to conduct barangay assemblies to bring down the issues, the governor said. Months ago, the governor also asked the PPOC secretariat to write to the IFFM to obtain a copy of the findings.
It is unnecessary but still, by the dictates of good faith, we asked for a copy so we could work on what needs to be done, Chatto said during an interview after the PPOC.
Not content with the newspaper article lambasting the government for the alleged violations, the APC also submitted the IFFM report to the United Nation’s Commission on Human Rights, Mariano said in newspaper reports.
This week, APC lambasted Bohol government for not addressing on the IFFM findings conducted in San Vicente last September 20-22. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Dec. 14 (PIA)–Tagbilaran City has once again surpassed its tax collection efficiency in the third quarter of this year ranking 1st place with 140.29% efficiency rating in the whole Region 7 in Real Property Tax Collection.
Second place is Bayawan City in Negros Oriental with 126.81%, followed by Cebu City with 119.09%, Mandaue City, Cebu with 117.76 and 5th place is Dumaguete City, Nagros Oriental with 117.69%.
Tagbilaran City has already collected real property taxes amounting to P66,173,986.98 just after nine months this year.
It already surpassed its annual target of P58, 960,736.00 for 2015.
Mayor John Geesnell Yap attributed the positive performance of the City Government to the collective efforts of the different departments and to the trust and support of the Tagbilaranons.
For the past two years, Tagbilaran City has been cited by the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) headed by its Regional Director Herminigilda Garsula for its outstanding Tax Collection Efficiency. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Editorial
This week, the huge chunk of Philippine voters got a pre-Christmas treat of something to ponder or pick on.
Right at the heat of campaign or no-campaign seasons as yet, Liberal Party and President Noynoy Aquino’s fair-haired boy played light on a claim that Davao City’s peace and order calling it a myth.
The peace and order situation in the country’s biggest city got into Roxas, sensing that this single fact is helping propel presidential competitor Rodrigo Duterte to scrape the ceilings of social media survey groups.
And it is yet Duterte’s second week after fulfilling a nail-biting submission of his Presidential bid at the Comelec, officially killing all speculations about this fairly unpredictable man’s not running from a fight.
With most people sensing that a discipline-blighted Philippines has no need of a Wharton economics degree, people looked at Davao, a city that thrives in the borders of terror as a possible redemption.
Sitting on an island while its neighbors make money out of kidnap-for ransom, terror bombing and drug-trade, it would be legendary for Davao to just sit there and be topping country’s peace and order situation.
Well, like every social scientist would say, peace and order is never just about instilling fear, because that can happen in a civil unrest and yet there is no peace. And order.
But unlike those lit with unrest, Davao has its police organization, justice system and penology all worked up. This is the city that had a mayor offering a nice punch to a prosecutor for the latter’s apparent ego trip.
And when a heaping serving of justice is needed and the systemic legal process is excruciatingly slow, this is also a city that has a mythical blindfolded lady in draping robes.
Here, criminals and undesirables have a nasty habit of getting found, lifeless and a bloating lesson for everyone with the intent to beat the country’s wretched systems.
Here, either criminals, die or they flee, whichever is profitable for them. So, you have a city that some ranking services hoists up as among the world’s most peaceful.
And this, apparently irked Mar Roxas and his minions.
Roxas is simply wanting to hit on Duterte, but a Wharton School training tells him to pick on Davao’s Peace and Order, calling it a myth.
You see, at Daang Matuwid which Roxas vows to continue, they also have this nasty habit of opening up their mouths faster than their economic brains to process. Some have a queer way of saying it: foot and mouth disease.
That is when they contrive of saying something brilliant, they end up hurting their feet.
This said, you have Mar Roxas, former DILG Chief who has the police under his command, also bolstered saying Davao police are epic failures. And he said it, as if it is Mamasapano and he was kept in the blind despite his being DILG.
Indeed the police have lost a significant chunk of morale with the way the politics is gaining into the DILG. They even said what Robredo built in years, it only took a single Yolanda incident to wash out.
And as the Daang Matuwid has been a constant war cry for the Liberal, every time Roxas or its Liberal party lame duck president opens its mouth, some bad thing is going to happen.
This has become a battle between what is mythical and what is legendary.
What is just unfortunate is that which is legendary peace and order is now tagged as mythical, while the myth in Daang Matuwid has been stuffed to us as legendary. So you ask, where the fail is?
by admin | Dec 10, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 10 (PIA)–Aprubado na sa ikatulo ug pinal nga pagbasa ang House Bill 6268 o Salary Standardization Law o SSL 2015.
Ang SSL 2015 gipalabang dayon sa unang adlaw pa lamang sa pagdungog human kini giduso mismo ni Presidente Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III.
170 ka mga Kongresista ang mibotar pabor sa maong balaodnon, 5 ang mi-kontra samtang 1 lamang ang nag-abstain.
Target sa SSL 2015 nga mahiduol ang suholan sa may 1.3 milyong kawani sa gobyerno sa suholang tigdawat sa mga naa sa pribadong sektor.
Sa SSL 2015, makadawat og 14th month pay ang mga kawani sa gobyerno, gawas pa sa dugang suholan nila nga paga-tungaon sa upat ka tuig nga implementasyon.
Gawas niini, may idugang usab sa performance based bonus o PBB sa mga kawani sa gobyerno.
Tuyo niining madasig ug magpabilin ang mga kawani ug opisyal sa gobyerno, mao nga ang kumpensasyon niini dili mo-ubos sa 70 porsiyento sa merkado alang sa tanang salary grades.
Ang SSL 2015 gilagda nilang House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora, Accounts Committee Chairman Eleandro Madrona ug Appropriations Chairman Isidro Ungab. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
