by anyajulia | Jun 16, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BUOT na ni Gobernaor Erico Aumentado nga ipadeklara sa Korte Supreme (SC) nga nilapas sa batakang balaod ang House Resolution 1109.
Kini bisan pa nga ang resolusyon nagpatawag lamang sa pag-umol sa mga pundok nga magsugod pagtuki sa batakang balaod.
Matud sa Gobernador, ang lakang sa Ubos Balay Balaoranan nga sila-sila ra ang mag-tuki sa hisgutanan sa pag-usab sa batakang balaod pinaagi sa constituent assembly (CONAS) nangagda ug kagubot.
Hinuon, iyang gipasabot usab nga walay bikil kaniya kon mag CONAS man apan kinahanglang apil ang duha ka balay balaoranan subay sa glatid sa batakang balaod, (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jun 16, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, TBTK
DILI igo ang rason sa kahadlok sa swine flu aron i-oktaba ang nagsingabot nga Tigum sa mga Bol-aanon sa Tibuok Kalibutan (TBTK).
Kini maoy pamahayag ni Liklik Gallares Schroeder sa pakighinabi sa kahanginan sa milabay nga adlaw.
Kini usab bisan pa nga gibutyag ni Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III nga may 33 pa ka kaso sa A (H1N1) nga nadeklara na nga luwas, nga nagdugang nagdto na sa 71 ka pasyente nga naayo na.
Sa laing bahin, 46 pa ang may kompirmadong mild nga A (H1N1) case, nga nagpalobo sa natakdan ngadto na sa 193 sukad niadtong Mayo 1.
Sa umaabot nga sugyot nga Ipa-oktaba ang TBTK, si Gallares-Schroeder mibutyag nga dili na kaayo kahadlokan ang swine flu kay wala na kini mataho nga gikahadlokan sa Amerika.
Hinuon, dugang niya, ipadayon pa gihapon usab ang mga pamaagi aron kalikayan ang pagkatap sa sakit pinaagi sa pagsubay sa saktong hygiene. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jun 15, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
SOME 150 President Gloria Scholarship Coupons (PGSC) for technical vocational courses were given Friday as the country celebrates the 111th Independence Day with a highlight on the country-wide “Kalayaan 2009 Mega Jobs Fair”
The awarding of the scholarship certificates happened during the flag raising ceremonies and Independence Day program here attended by about a little more than a thousand as part of the government’s efforts to spur jobs and keep Filipinos above water in this time of economic crisis.
Technical Educations and Skills Development Authority Provincial Director Francisca Opog presented the beneficiaries to Governor Erico Aumentado and the Boholanos a few minutes before Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO) also opened its jobs fair at the second floor of the Capitol.
The scholarship coupons allow job seekers some more job skill competencies through the TESDA trainings, says agency information Officer Jaminel Damolo, during a casual talk.
Damolo shared that Bohol still has about 856 scholarship slots and even with the 150 awardees, TESDA still has to award some more scholars soon.
TESDA started with 2273 scholars, some 1477 have already graduated and while some are already working, others are still hoping to land jobs soon.
“The activity is part of the President’s economic resiliency program where the beneficiaries are expected to land future jobs and boost their spending power,” he said.
While Bohol was not part of the 19 cities nationwide where the “Kalayaan 2009 Mega Job Fair” was simultaneously held, BEPO Head Romulo Tagaan bared that Capitol also initiated its move for local and international job seekers to tap and match skills with vacancies.
Speaking at the weekly Kapihan sa PIA and aired at DyTR, Tagaan shared that with TESDA, BEPO has considerably done its mandates to allow local job seekers to get into jobs.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo tasked the Department of Labor and Employment to spearhead simultaneously job fairs from June 12 to 14 with about 1000 employers from the private and government sectors including those from overseas recruitment industry participating.
The three day activities hope to employ as many workers who would fill vacancies in government emergency employment programs, sea-based and land based overseas employment and other related jobs.(PIA)
by anyajulia | Jun 15, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
MORE projects, more agrarian related support infrastructure and services, says Atty. Johnson Sinco on the reports that the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) Extension with Reform bill has been passed.
Sinco, Bohol Agrarian Reform Officer could not contain his excitement with the development as the bicameral ruling for the extension, when ratified next month would stretch the program for another five years and give it a P150-billion funding with the ratification if the congress when their session resumes on July 27, adds DAR information officer Ma. Lydia Bantugan recently.
“We are very thankful to all farmers, agrarian reform beneficiaries, district representatives, local leaders and social justice advocates for believing in us and allowing us more time to help farming communities improve their lot and see better future,” Sinco said.
Early this week, a members of the bicameral committee reviewing the extension through a reconciled version of both House and Senate CARP measures approved the extension and pushes for the immediate ratification of the measure, sources said.
The reconciled measures agree to the five year-extension, the restoration of compulsory land acquisition and distribution and the establishment of a congressional oversight panel to eye on the program implementation.
The Senate bill, however, allocates a budget of P147 billion, while that of the House states that the program be provided at least P100 billion.
Another irritant, which the bicameral settled is for the mode of land distribution, which is now limited to compulsory acquisition and voluntary offer to sell.
Voluntary land transfer (VLT), which was allowed in the original CARP law, was scrapped on the ground that it is not an effective mode of land distribution.
To help secure food production, the consolidated CARP extension bill also bans the conversion of irrigable and irrigated agricultural land, bicameral reports bared.
With the ratification, the land acquisition and distribution (LAD) component of CARP, with compulsory acquisition as the dominant mode, is extended for five years from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2014, Bantugan stressed. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Jun 15, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
MUSICAL virtuosity of Boholanos pop recently at the “breakaway world” of independent (indie) films.
Boholano multi-awarded musical scorer and composer Lutgardo Labad took his best swing in the world of indie films with the best of the best in Bohol singing groups to embellish at least two films: Raya Martin’s Independencia and Maryo delos Reyes’ Kamoteng Kahoy.
For Independencia and Kamoteng Kahoy, Labad used the musical talents of the sensational Loboc Children’s Choir, some of the group’s alumni members to interpret a wide variety of score for both films, independent sources said.
Independencia was an entry to the just concluded 2009 Cannes Film Festival in France for the non-competition category while Kamoteng Kahoy was one of the six SINE DIREK Film Series at the festival.
Independencia, set in the late 1890s, portrays a family forced to hide in the dense forests of Luzon to escape the advance of the new American colonizers stars Sid Lucero, Tetchie Agbayani, and Alessandra de Rossi.
The totality of the film is the first Filipino film that was accepted to the Un Certain Regard category of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, while another Filipino film capped Best Director for Brillante Mendoza in the competition category for his movie Kinatay.
Using the theme melody of the Francisco Baltazar’s corido Florante at Laura, Labad utilized the angelic voices of the Loboc Children’s Choir (LCC).
LCC performers included alumni members Leah Cal, Liz Cal and Noel Kerr Caneda while the child singers consisted of Rica Baliton, Vea Navarro, Jenali Alexis Calipusan, Anna Marie Suganob, Jack Elmar Varquez and Paul Delfin Sumampong.
UP String Quartet, Pundaquit Virtuosi Cellist Pocholo Gutierrez and Kalinga artist Mauricio Patungao joined them.
Another Boholano, bay affinity, Butch de Juan, who married artist Vida Tirol arranged the music.
On the other hand, multi-awarded Boholano film director Maryo J. de los Reyes will again display his directorial power with Kamoteng Kahoy, a movie loosely derived from the poisoning accident that afflicted 27 school children from Mabini, Bohol years back.
Focusing on the values of friendship and transformation with screenplay written by Ricky Lee, Kamoteng Kahoy stars best child actors Nash Aguas and Buboy Villar, together with Gloria Romero.
Musical arranger/keyboardist Romeo Mascarinas, banduria player Zosima Ocuram, Loboc guitarist Sam Varquez, Maribojoc soprano Geraldine Pancho, Antequera tenor Frex Tongco and Loboc tenor Johnrey Fuertes interpreted Labad’s score.
The participation of Boholano musical performers and creators in the new significant medium of the indie film, heralds a new age of mainstreaming Boholano ingenuity in the creative media of the 21st century, Labad said in a statement. (PIA)
