by anyajulia | Jan 28, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The recent movement of key Palace positions has strategically placed at least two Cebuano speaking men and two more capable of understanding the dialect, close to where the action is.
The shift involves Davaoeño Jesus Dureza, Cebuano Cerge Remonde, former Central Visayas Police Regional Director Avelino Razon and retired army chief Hermogenes Esperon.
The shift came as Former Press Secretary Jesus Dureza asks the President a lighter load and was consequently granted Chief Presidential Legal Counsel.
Meanwhile Presidential Management Staff (PMS) head Cerge Remonde assumes the position vacated by Dureza.
To replace Remonde as PMS head is Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process Hermogenes Esperon Jr.; and to take over him as PAPP is retired Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Avelino Razon, presently the deputy national security adviser.
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by anyajulia | Jan 26, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The MILF “child warrior” has been taken custody by the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO), as said by Lt. Col. Ferdinand Budeng, commander of the 28th Infantry Battalion.
The 16-year old MILF combatant was captured when gov’t troops overran an MILF 105th base command. He was wounded in his right thigh and was armed with a caliber 45 pistol with two magazines and 14 rounds of ammunition. (PIA/Bohol)
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by anyajulia | Jan 26, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
The government has stepped up to search for new job opportunities here abroad in order to justify the impact of the global crisis on the country’s economy.
As an initial move, the President called for the immediate employment in the country of the jobless and out-of-school youth under the administration’s Emergency Livelihood Employment Program.
Cabinet secretaries have been assigned to oversee the implementation of the employment program in specific regions of the country. Arroyo also instructed DOLE and the OWWA to set aside adequate funds to be loaned out to dislocated expatriate workers as emergency capital for livelihood projects pending their re-deployment to foreign countries. (PIA/Bohol)
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by anyajulia | Jan 26, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, National News, Tourism
BOHOL would be the training ground for the country’s tourism ambassadors as the government launches an apprenticeship program for students taking tourism related courses.
Through Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Durano’s help, the government has recently launched the DOT’s Apprentice Program. This program allows the exposure of students in tourism-related courses to be immersed or exposed in the country’s top destinations.
Students eligible for the program are from the following schools:
Arellano University,
University of Sto. Tomas,
Centro Escolar University,
Colegio de San Juan de Letran,
College of the Holy Spirit,
De Ocampo Memorial School,
Emilio Aguinaldo College,
St. Scholastica’s College,
Sta. Catalina College,
University of Manila,
San Beda College,
University of the East,
Far Eastern University,
Feati University,
Lyceum of the Philippines,
Philippine Women’s University,
San Sebastian College Recoletos,
St. Jude College, and
St. Paul University, Manila.
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by anyajulia | Jan 26, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
The newly installed brigade commander of Bohol’s army unit is approaching peace in Bohol via another roadmap called Kaunlaran Ay Isulong Bayan Ibig Gumawa nga Aksyon Ngayon or simply KAIBIGAN.
Kaibigan implements community development that jibes with the government programs and puts the military in active roles as they immerse and integrate their peace and internal security efforts in a community, sumps up Colonel Alex Albano.
Albano will be filling up the role left by Col. Raoul Reyes, who was lately engaged in brisk community development efforts with local officials or Team Bohol.
With the way the brigade commander explained his roadmap, many believe that [kaibigan] would complement the initiatives already in place here.
Local peace workers have said former communist infiltrated barangays now cleared have been emboldened to resist the threat of another occupation and they want action right now.
This as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has been urging provinces struggling with insurgency problems to follow the Bohol template for peace.
The president bared this after learning that Bohol has successfully reduced the number of rebels in Bohol in the last decade, a fact she also associated with the Bohol experience. (rachiu/PIA)
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