by anyajulia | Jul 20, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Big-time swindlers were able to victimize 15 local businessmen during a fast-break two-and-a-half months operation in the province.
The group headed by a certain Lamberto Lim Medalla started its business operations last April, disguised as a distributor of “Sweet-O” orange juice. Their business operations also expanded to distributorship of other food products
and even expanded to dealership of computers.
Medalla is now the object of a manhunt by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) was working with five other persons whom they identified as Julius Aguimatang of Kaloocan City, Divina Gracia Rodrigo alias Alma of Quezon City, Mildred Sy of Imus, Cavite, Irish Barasolia alias Sam of unknown address and Shiela Mae Mendez of Lahug, Cebu City.
The syndicate victimized a Coca Cola agent of P85,000 worth of soft-drinks, Rusco Motors, a multicab unit; Philcopy Corp with two photocopiers worth P180,000; Ruchelle Computers, computers worth P229,200; Sonjay Microsystems, notebook/computers worth P190,000; Fuller Life, beauty products worth P39,000; Esther Felisarta, jewelries worth P103,000; Dranix, cigarettes worth P100,000; Magcor Trading, two photocopiers worth more than P100,000; NCC Mentos candy agent worth P41,000; Jeffrey Appliance, air-conditioning unit; and Globelines, cellular phone and unpaid bills, P21,000.
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by anyajulia | Jul 20, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
THE first of the country’s biggest lode of jatropha oil to hit loop of clean energy markets may not be from Bohol yet, but local authorities are certain getting into the top seat is not impossible.
With the country’s biggest jatropha curcas nursery here, Capitol chief of staff and spokesperson Antonieto Pernia over the Governor Reports bared that anchoring Bohol’s dream of hitching in the local loop starts with at least a thousand hectares by the end of the month.
Now with about 500 hectares already planted, Pernia was positive the thousand hectares by the end of the year is achievable.
After that, Bohol aims to hit 6,000 hectares next year to complete the 10,000 hectare legacy.
This is before the Governor signs a memorandum of agreement with Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) this Wednesday, to formalize the financing agreement for the ambitious project set as a legacy of the Aumentado leadership.
Gov. Aumentado earlier wanted some 10,000 hectares of Bohol idle lands converted into jatropha plantations and more expansions after his term.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo who comes to Bohol on that day would be a witness to the signing of the agreements to be entered into by Bohol through Governor Erico Aumentado and PNOC through Alternative Fuels Corporation (AFC) Romeo P. Tolentino, Capitol said.
The project, Pernia revealed would entail Bohol putting up 10,000 hectares of jatropha plantation while the PNOC apportioning at least P25 million for it.
Succeeding expansion plans would also be available as the contract with PNOC expires after 25 years.
Pernia named the villages of Bayong, Cantaub Sierra Bullones and Biabas Guindulman within the ancestral domains of the Eskaya tribe as the site for the nurseries
With the market for cleaner energy now becoming more attractive, jatropha as biodiesel alternative solves the issue of food versus fuel concerns, research would show.
Next year, the country’s biggest lode: about 30 million gallons of jatropha oil would be exported by the Philippine unit of Monterey, California-based Abundant Biofuels Corp. (ABC) as quoted from an email by the company’s chairman, Dr. Charles V. Fishel to the Philippine News Agency
ABC, which offers long-term contracts of up to ten years in multiples of 50,000 barrels sell bio-diesel feedstock to refineries in the US. The company also offers project financing.
Said to be the largest contract for non-food biodiesel, ABC has tied up with a subsidiary called JatrophaBioJet Corporation here.
Since 2007, ABC through JatrophaBioJet Corporation sealed a partnership with the Supreme Council of Datus Alimaong – the Holy Warriors (SCODA), which represents ancestral domain holders in Northern Mindanao.
“In this time of worldwide economic uncertainty, the export revenues will help (boost) the Philippines’ balance of payments,” Fisher was quoted as saying. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jul 17, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BOHOL Capitol makes itself liable for citizen’s complaints over poor service when it launched its own citizen’s charter Wednesday, July 15.
No less than Commissioner Ricardo Saludo of the Civil Service Commission officiated the Citizen’s charter unveiling at the Bohol Cultural Center Wednesday while Capitol employees witnessed the ceremony.
With the launching of the Citizen’s charter, Capitol substantially cuts 1/3 of document processing time, Capitol’s Human Resource Officer Romeo S. Teruel hinted.
From the traditional 15 days maximum document processing time allowed, Bohol Capitol now implies 10 days maximum processing as Bohol trailblazes again in Central Visayas as the first province to respond to the call to cut bureaucratic red tape and do away with every opportunity for graft and corruption, said Capitol Chief of Staff Antonieto Pernia recently.
The country’s Anti-Red Tape Law of 2007 or RA 9485 provides for the formulation of Citizen’s Charter by each Local Government Unit in the country before September 2009.
A Citizen’s Charter is a document that contains information of the frontline services being provided by the local government unit to its citizens, Teruel summed.
A Capitol Task Force consisting local executives formulated the Charter which shall then be placed on information billboards posted at the main entrance of offices or at most conspicuous places for the citizens to know which services is available at the office, he added.
According to the law, the Citizen’s Charter should include the office’s vision and mission; identification of the frontline services offered, and the clientele; step-by-step procedure to obtain a particular service; and officer or employee responsible for each step.
The Charter shall also include the maximum time to conclude the process; documents to be presented by the client; amount of fees, if necessary, procedure for filing of complaints in relation to requests and applications, among others.
With the citizen’s charter, the public can clearly follow the steps of the services offered, and easily identify the loopholes in the given system, Teruel explained.
This, he said should help eliminate bureaucratic red tape, avert graft and corruption practices and improve the efficiency of government frontline services. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jul 17, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events
The search for the Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service 2009″ or COPS yielded awardees of four (4) police officers and six (6) non-commissioned officers. The awarding rites was done at the Malacañang Palace. The search for outstanding cops is an activity of the Metrobank Foundation aimed at recognizing exemplary contributions to peace and order by policemen nationwide.
The annual COPS award is a recognition that the police force and its members can be depended upon for security and in effecting programs which help in improving the people and the community.
With the police visible in community undertakings and the improved community relations there is reason to hope for a more developed country. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Jul 17, 2009 | Headlines, National News
Government agencies, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and Philippine Council of Students in Intrapreneurship signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) formalizing their agreement to collaborate in implementing projects that provide livelihood opportunities to the youth.
DOLE has an ongoing program, the Youth Entrepreneurship Support Project or YES Project to empower the youth through entrepreneurial skills development. This is envisioned to bring about their capability to actively participate in their communities. The YES Project strives to create viable and sustainable livelihood opportunities for the youth thus reducing youth unemployment.
DOLE, the lead agency, will be responsible in providing funds for the project. DOLE is the one tasked to oversee the project implementation.
While DTI is tasked to provide technical assistance in developing the entrepreneurial skills of the youth beneficiaries. The technical assistance comes in the form of business consultancy, provision of trainors for skill and entrepreneurial trainings, product development and marketing assistance.
And Philippine Council of Students in Intrapreneurship-is tasked to facilitate the identification, screening and organization of youth beneficiaries. (DTI)
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