by anyajulia | Oct 25, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
NO MATTER how noble the purpose is, government vehicles can not be used by government employees to take an ailing relative to the nearest hospital, even in emergency cases, rules out the government’s Task Force Red Plate.
The Tanodbayan, under Honorable Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez created the task force aimed at ensuring that government vehicles are used in accordance with existing laws.
The task force is the government’s implementing arm in checking abuse despite implemented austerity measures. They spread the dragnet, which widened recently to ensnare abusive employees using government vehicles despite express instructions to cut on fuel consumption in the midst of a fuel crisis.
According to the task force, in no case shall a government employee use a government vehicle to further his private ends, unless he has obtained a permission to do so from the proper authority.
The subject austerity measure also bans government vehicles from fetching children or relatives to and from school, even if it is only along the way to office.
The task force said it is a declared policy that government vehicles should be used solely for the furtherance of official business. The same holds true even in cases where the employee himself answers for the gas of the government vehicle.
In this light, a government vehicle, when not in use can not be brought home and have it put in the private garage, because by general rule, a government vehicle should be put in a garage provided by the agency of the government the vehicle is assigned.
But, by way of exceptions, a government vehicle may be brought home in cases where the agency does not have a garage or where it is more economical to bring home the vehicle, cites the task force on Sec. 361 of the General Auditing and Accounting Manual [e-4], GAAM and Commission on Audit circular 85-55.
Then, unless properly authorized, a government employee may bring a government vehicle to places like markets, restaurants, hotels, resorts, or similar places outside official route.
The driver however should present a mandatory Driver’s Trip Ticket duly accomplished before the vehicle can be used.
The absence of Driver’s Trip Ticket to authorize the use of a government vehicle outside official route, or outside office hours, or on a Sunday or legal holiday or by persons other that those authorized to use them raises prima facie evidence of its private use, the task force said in Section 361[d-1], GAAM; Sec. 2, EO 418. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Oct 24, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, National News
A BOHOLANO missionary priest and 5 others survived an ambush try Saturday, October 18 in Basilan in Mindanao.
Rev. Fr. Felimon “Mon” Libot, a missionary of the Claretian Order hails from Tangacasan Norte, of Loay town here.
He on his way to celebrate the following day’s mass in priest-less Tumahubong town, 97 kilometers away from his base in Isabela City, Basilan when he and his companions were ambushed.
Marine and CAFGU escorts accompanied him Saturday afternoon when a band of 4 armed men fired upon the civilian vehicle they were on, reports from Mindanao said.
While his escorts returned fire, the band of armed men succeeded in wounding at least 4 CAFGUs while Libot and another CAFGU only identified as PFC Nicolas suffered minor injuries said Col. Rustico Guerrero, Commanding Officer of the 1st Marine Brigade.
Libot, a religious missionary is currently the Director of Claret College of Isabela.
Fr. Libot, along with Basilan priests including Bishop Martin Jumoad attended the spiritual needs of the town.
Based on reports, Fr. Libot was traveling via Isabela-Maluso-Sumisip circumferential road and was about 7 kilometers from Tumahubong proper when they were fired upon.
Col. Guerrero added that government troops from the MBLT-10 were sent to track down the armed band, whose identities and motive are still under investigation.
While no identities have been established on the criminals, sources have theorized that factions in the Tumahubong Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development Cooperative (TARBIDC) may have been the culprits.
The TARBIDC engaged a P50 M loan for the cooperatives modernization of the rubber production, a fund allegedly mismanaged.
The conflict among cooperative factions has also been pointed as the cause of unresolved killings and other criminal activities in the area, including the torching of the cooperative administration building. (PIA/rachiu)
by anyajulia | Oct 24, 2008 | Headlines, National News
MAY LAING suliran si Kumander Bravo ug ang iyang mga gisakopan.
Sa napauso nga text messaging, namiligro si Bravo nga masayran gilayon sa militar ang iyang nahimutangan, kay itext man lang kini ngadto sa nga sakop sa Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Matud ni Capt. Ralph Dela Cruz, OIC, OG7, First Infantry (Tabak) Division, Philippine Army, daku ug ikatabang ang nag-abot-abot nga mga taho kabahin sa nahimutangan sa mga rebelde.
Nakita sa AFP ang kaugmaran nga timailhang may pagpanginlabot na ang katawhan aron ipabahol na ang kalinaw sa Mindanao. (PIA/rachiu)
by anyajulia | Oct 24, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
SUBLI nga gipasabot sa Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) ang ka-importante sa pasilidad sa drainage alang sa kadalanan aron dili kini dali nga mangaguba.
Kini usab samtang gisabutan na usab sa mga opisyal sa Bohol ug Tagbilaran ang solbad sa suliran nga makadaut hinuon sa bag-ong gisementong Carlos P. Garcia Avenue sa syudad.
Kasamtangang nag-antos sa pagbaha ug paglunop ang mga moagi ug namuyo sa CPG North bisan pag may tukmang drainage na nga napahimutang dinhi.
Ang lunop dala sa dili makagawas ang tubig binanlas sa uwan kay sirado pa ang gawasanan nga kanal niini. Sirado pa usab ang kanal awasanan niini kay wala itugot nga ihagbong lakip sa uwan ang hugaw nga gipa-agas sa kanal.
Gihimo na nga palisiya ni DPWH Sec. Hermogenes Ebdane ang pagpahimutang ug apil sa kanal sa foreign-assisted road projects. Gusto niya nga may tukmang line canals ug cross drains subay sa himoong mga nasudnong dalan sa nasud.
Ang kanal magtabang pagpahubas sa tubig aron dili makapahumok sa dalan hangyud kini dali madaut. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Oct 23, 2008 | Headlines, National News
GIPANG-APUD-APOD ni Presidente Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ngadto sa 6 ka mga lideres sa kwalisyon sa mga Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association (TODA) ang Pepeng Pasada Diskwento ug Philhealth cards sa usa ka programang gihinganlag “Todo Bigay”.
Gisaksihan sa kapin sa 2,000 ka tricycle operators ug drivers didto sa SM Mall of Asia ang pagpanghatag sa P1 nga diskwento gikan sa Pilipinas Shell nga gamiton sa mga driver sa matag patubil sa bisan asa nga gasolinahan sa Shell sa tibuok nasud.
Gitunol usab sa Presidente ang 1,000 nga PhilHealth cards nga balor ug P1.2 milyones nga insurance coverage sa tabang ni Health Secretary Francisco Duque III.
Niini, nagpaabout usab ang mga taga Bohol nga madala na sa ilang gisakopan nga TODA aron usab kini nga benepisyo ikapang-apod-apod na usab dinhi agi ug tabang sa mga driver nga nagping-it pa sa kalisud sa pagmahal sa gasoline ug pisa dala sa krisis sa lana. (rachiu/PIA)
