by admin | Nov 7, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, Major Events
MARIBOJOC, Bohol – Several residents from the different barangays in this municipality heartily welcomed the community outreach program conducted by the Countryside Development Program-Purok Power Movement (CDP-PPM) of the provincial government of Bohol recently.
Some key local officials and people’s organizations from barangays Guiwanon, Punta Cruz and Bayacabac came as one and expressed their gratitude to Gov. Edgar M. Chatto and the movers of the CDP-PPM for coming to their barangays.
The CDP-PPM team conducted an orientation on the registration and accreditation of non-government organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in barangay Bayacabac last October 24. This accreditation is mandated by the Local Government Code of 1991 and is also supported and found in the provincial Ordinance C-001 and Ordinance 2012-032. The CDP-PPM team was joined in this activity by the 47th Infantry Battalion which is based in Tubigon as part of their orientation as a new partner of the program.
Emilia Roslinda, executive director of the Bohol Alliance of Non-Government Organizations (BANGON) also supported the move of the provincial government of Bohol in its continued conduct of orientation on accreditation of CSOs in all municipalities in the province. This is to ensure the coordination between and among the CSOs and the government sector and must be aligned with the government programs for a unified and cohesive action for development.
After the orientation, employees from the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office distributed items for feeding, fresh milk and solar lamps to several people’s organizations.
The whole day activity earned the respect and gratitude from the officials, residents-beneficiaries in the Barangay.
Guiwanon’s barangay secretary Genara Sanoy said that “gikalipay sa mga lumolopyo ang pagbisita sa taga-province ug pagtuman sa ilang saad nga manghatag ug solar lamps.” (the residents are very thankful of the visit made by the staff of the provincial government and fulfilled its promise of giving solar lamps.)
Ricardo Bagnoran, president of a fishermen people’s organization, also expressed his thanks to the CDP-PPM team. He said that “gikalipay namong tanang mananagat ang among nadawat.”(all the fishermen are happy of what we have received.) Bagnoran was even thankful that they were able to stay away from the “actions and deceptions of the leftist groups. We, the fishermen are happy that we have not joined them,” he added.
In behalf of his people, Lourdes Concepcion Tan-Endo, barangay captain of Punta Cruz also expressed her gratitude and gave assurance that the people of Punta Cruz will always support and always will be with the government.
Despite of this development, the Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET), an NGO which is based in Cebu City made a statement published earlier that it is not happy over what the provincial government is doing for its own Boholano constituents.
Liza Quirog, chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) of the CDP-PPM just laughed off the pronouncement made by this outsider NGO. According to a staff assigned to the Desk of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) they could not find CERNET as among the legitimate NGOs of the country. Under the law, SEC registration gives legal personality to a non government organization. This registration and accreditation requirements are also mandated in the Local Government Code and Provincial Ordinances. Efforts are being directed to get the official statement of SEC on the legality of CERNET’s operations. This NGO is also not accredited with the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Bohol. The Provincial Ordinance also requires that any NGO based outside of the province must get accreditation first before it can conduct any activity in the province to safeguard the interests and security of the Boholano people.
Quirog said that the manifestation and verbal expression of the people of the barangays in Maribojoc, as mentioned earlier in this report, are proof enough that the people welcomes and supports the programs of the provincial government, especially the CDP-PPM since this is specifically implemented to address the socio-economic problems faced by all sectors of the community. She emphasized, however, that the governor is more than happy with the support and complementation extended by the registered and accredited NGOs and CSOs of the province for the achievement of its development goals.
As to the orientation of CSOs accreditation, Quirog emphasized that this is not just the provincial government’s decree but a national law. The accreditation process is given much emphasis now to avoid another Napoles scam scenario where bogus NGOs were allocated billions of pesos for ghost projects.
Medical missions and distribution of items to the farmers and fishermen might also be used as a pattern for bogus NGOs going to the communities so that they could “implement” projects for liquidation purposes of funds given by their donor agencies from abroad. (tltb)
by admin | Nov 1, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 31, (PIA)—Next to inmates with crimes in violation of the dangerous drugs act, prisoners facing murder charges and theft comprise the top three most populations in Bohol jails.
In a report rendered by Jail Inspector Jose Rusylvi Abueva, jail statistics revealed that of the 1038 population of Bohol jails under the Bureau of jail Management and Penology (BJMP), inmates with drug cases comprise 51.34%.
Of the inmates with drug related cases, most of them, or 301 of 553 or 54.43% are committed at the Bohol District Jail (BDJ), formerly the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center.
On the other hand, 19.69% or 105 of those detained for drugs are held at the Tagbilaran City District Jail (TCDJ) while 21.75% of these inmates facing drug suits are at the Talibon and Ubay District jails (UDJ), according to the BJMP.
After drug related cases, is murder, of which 118 are currently being detained to answer to the allegations in court and are awaiting for the dispensation of their cases.
Detainees facing murder comprise 11.36% of jail population in the five jails under the BJMP supervision, Inspector Abueva pointed out.
BDJ, the main jail for the province also commits 52.54% of detainees facing murder charges, while TCDJ has 19.495 or 23 inmates answering to murder.
UDJ also keeps 11.86% of inmates facing murder cases in courts. This is 14 inmates, Abueva report showed.
Next to drugs and murder, third most number of crime types among inmates in five Bohol jails is rape, which comprises 7.51% or a total of 78 of the 1038 detainees.
While BDJ keeps 35 of these inmates, TCDJ keeps 16 detainees facing rape while UDJ and Carmen District Jail (CDJ) both have 12 prisoners accused of rape.
Other leading prison crimes among Bohol jail inmates are robbery at 40 individuals detained or 3.85%, those accused of illegal possession of firearms at 39 individuals or 3.75%, followed by homicide at 38 or 3.6%. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Nov 1, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 31 (PIA)—Crimes in Bohol slid down 29% or 157 cases less in October compared to the previous month, as law enforcement authorities continue to innovate and lessen crime opportunities here.
September this year recorded 533 crimes all over Bohol, compared to the 376 crimes reaching police blotters all over Bohol, according to a report from Bohol’s Provincial Police Office, Camp Dagohoy.
The same crime reports, delivered before the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) Meeting October 30, showed similar decreasing trend in both index and non-index crimes in the month.
October showed 219 index and 157 non index crimes while September had 299 and 234 respectively. This showed both 26 and 33% decreases with in the month, data showed.
In fact, according to police reports, about 40% or 108 of the 376 crime cases in Bohol in October are traffic-related and have something to do with poor traffic rules enforcement.
These include 80 cases of traffic related incidents causing physical injury cases, 27 cases of damage to property and one single case of homicide, statisticians at Camp Dagohoy bared.
by admin | Nov 1, 2015 | Editorial
All Saints Day and All Soul’s Days are sure weird days.
For once in a year, or twice for that matter, cemeteries all across the Christian world teem with people whose idea of remembering their departed is nothing short of spectacular.
On these days, people pick back at the forgotten and eloquently speak good of them, laying the freshest of the most expensive flowers, lighting the biggest and the most thought provoking of candles to elaborate the truth that whoever is down there has no need of all these accoutrements.
Well, to sort out these people, we find several kinds, or unkinds of them by the tombs.
Some are media men, eloquently broadcasting the departed’s good deeds and ornately embellishing their now so good deeds, as if such make the rotten flesh as tasty for the feasting organisms under the whitewashed niches.
Some are more solemn in their tributes: taking the long and hassly trek to the otherwise packed cemeteries, bringing with them flowery intentions and burning desires for the departed to just remain down there and make life as palatable as over the times when they were still alive when life was twice as miserable.
Some others however have nothing of the sort.
Their visit to the cemeteries is to resurrect the dead, stirring the departed enough for them to squirm from their caskets, if they still can, reminded of their folly.
Just as recently too, some people managed to break the tradition and re-opened an otherwise sealed casket of a case.
And instead of seeing a dessicated issue behind the closet, the Ombudsman saw skeletons.
Buried somewhere was the issue of an grossly undervalued assets of the Provincial Government, offered for a joint-venture agreement with a private company. And it was not an ordinary grave digger and under-taker who found that.
The Ombudsman, whose noses are as accurate as bloodhounds, saw that at P150 million, a property of over a billion including its franchises, when offered at that amount is grossly reeking of stench of corruption.
Well, when it got uncovered, cemetery caretakers immediately grabbed long shovels and commenced work.
Some poured their best perfumes namedropping the USAID citing first and best LGU-PPP innovations (despite being undervalued).
When they argued that the SP authority granted is above board, they forgot to see the implications that the SP also expressly greenlighted the sale as a tragic act of collusion to rob the people.
Of course, they would say that the RTC in 2001 dismissed these cases as warrantless, and that the possibly friendly Ombudsman in the Visayas dismissed these charges in 2008.
When the case got resurrected by the Ombudsman in 2014, the denied motion for reconsideration tells us that something indeed oozed out of the sealed deal.
So now, the stench wafted into our noses. And this is something a paid hack’s poured perfume all over the shroud could not cover.
As the perfume fails to mask the escaping smell which the bloodhounds at the anti-graft body found, whether it’s All Saints or All Soul’s Day, or pre-election grind, we come to the burial sites and see.
It is a stench, escaping every election, they said.
It is. But in those past elections, the rancid odor of the rotten deal did not catch the Ombudsman’s senses until now.
And when people attest that the water and power is evidently serving better now than before, that is a non-issue.
You sell a muscle car for a patently cheap price because all you can do is run it on third gear is wrong. When the buyer can run it firing all cylinders, and it screams as its glides past our fancy, it is still purring graft.
Luckily, it does not smell funny to those who have grown accustomed to the stench. Simply ask the shovel wielder grave diggers and you’ll get see why they’ll never pinch their noses over exhumed bodies.
by admin | Oct 31, 2015 | National News
The Commission on Elections concluded the voter registration period on Saturday, 31, 2015 with the expected large crowd of registrants beating the deadline. Chairman Andres Bautista said that there will be no extension to the registration. He said that the 17 months registration period was sufficient for voters to register.
The COMELEC has announced its “No BIO, No BOTO” policy on election day in 2016. The registration process includes capturing of biometrics data such us finger print, photo and signature. Registered voters may verify their information on the COMELEC online precinct finder found on its website.
An example search result for voter’s registration with complete biometrics data.
