by anyajulia | Sep 5, 2008 | Headlines, National News
Ang tanang lakang sa gobyerno sa pakig-dayalogo sa MILF og lain pang mga rebeldeng grupo aron makab-ot ang kalinaw maga sentro na karon sa gitawag ug DDR kon disarmament, demobilization og rehabilitation. Mao kini ang mando ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo matud pa ni defense secretary Teodoro Gilberto human sa gipahigayong tigum sa National Security Council kagahapong adlawa.
“Inubanan sa halapad nga paghimo og konsultasyon sa mga lokal nga komunidad, ang DDR kon disarmament, demobilization og rehabilitation mao na ang unang basehan usa ang Kagamhanan molingkod pag usab sa peace negotiating table”, ang kalihim sa depensa mibutyag.
Matud pa ni Teodoro “ipadayon gihapon ang pagtukis sa grupo ni Kumander Bravo og Umbra Kato bisan gasukod na ang Ramadhan. Kinahanglang ma disarmahan una ang mga sakop ni Bravo og Kato og ang pag surender sa duha aron manubag sa ilang mga nahimong kriminal nga buhat”.
Sa demobilisasyon, gidili sa Pangagamhanan ang mga sundalo sa MILF sa pagtapok aron makamugna og dagkong grupo , kini aron malikayan ang pagpahigayon og lain pang mga opensiba batok sa mga kasundaluhan og pagpangatake sa mga sibilyang komunidad.
Ang rehabilitasyon sa mga internally displaced persons (IDP) o mga bakwit nga mokabat na karon og labaw sa tres syentos mil (300,000) mao usab ang nag-unang gihatagan.
Si Lt. Gen. Cardozo Luna, ang AFP vice chief of staff nga kanhing 302nd brigade commander nga unang gabase sa Camp Rajah Sikatuna, Katipunan, Carmen midasun usab sa maong kondisyones sa Gobyerno diha sa pagpadayon sa panag-estoryahay sa Kagamhanan sa MILF og lain pang rebeldeng grupo.
Si Luna nga mao ang gitudlo nga commander sa Joint Task Force Mindanao, mipasalig nga bisan padayong ang pagtukis sa militar sa grupo ni Bravo og Kato ang mga kasundaluhan hugot nga manalipod sa katungod sa mga sibilyan og mopatuman sa rules of engagement. (30)
by anyajulia | Sep 5, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
MAYOR Roberto Salinas and local government officials join the Immaculate Concepcion Parish in hailing Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko Foundation Inc. (Kapwa) and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) for bringing to the interior town free medical and dental mission team.
Still struggling to elevate economic conditions of its people and at least raise health services, local officials have said they cant afford a medical mission now that the town is judiciously apportioning its resources for other equally prioritized need.
The Kapwa free medical mission filled it all, Mayor Salinas was quick to point out.
“It is with highest gratitude that we would like to relay our gratitude to the volunteers and the foundation for considering our town as a beneficiary,” Salinas said in an interview.
Three days before the free mission, the town witnessed two key health service infrastructure facility opening ceremonies.
The affairs were blessing and capsule laying of the proposed municipal health center/ lying-in clinic and waterworks system in barangay Rizal. Both were envisioned to get the town closer to its dream of upgrading its health services.
But even before the town folks could benefit from the activities, the medical mission team and volunteers put up the salvo and dispensed different services to 1,014 indigent residents.
About 411 persons had medical check ups, 38 had surgical operations, 167 for either dental extractions or check ups, 251 had optical services while a87 had blood typing and diagnostic services, an after event report said.
Catigbian Medical Mission is the Foundation’s 6th mission in Bohol since the past years, sources said.
According to the mayor, Kapwa services ranged from medical check ups, circumcision and excision, dental check up and extraction, optical services from refraction to handling out eyeglasses and blood typing and diagnostics.
That day, hundreds of people with ages ranging from infants to the aged milled around Immaculate Mary Academy between 8-3 pm to avail of the free services, Salinas reported.
Kapwa and PCSO teamed up with the local government to put up 43 volunteers, brought in medicines prepared the place and made the day for the town’s health service-deprived.
Kapwa officer Christine Escolano told Immaculate Mary Parish Priest Rev Fr. Joselito Masula that the medical and dental mission attained a 1:24 ratio, in a letter the following day.
Through education and health care, Kapwa has also helped in raising the country’s quality of life while instilling in the minds of the destitute the nobility of human life, their website declares.
Established in 1975 to care for the indigent patients, Kapwa has grown to embrace advocacy for the poor and its mission to help children afflicted with various kinds of diseases, as what the Catigbian medical mission showed. (rachiu/PIA)
THEY CAME IN DROVES. Indigent patients from Catigbian only had umbrellas to protect them from the blazing sun, but this did not sear their enthusiasm to take the queue to avail of free medical and dental services as local officials brought in Kapwa ko Mahal Ko and PCSO. (PIA)
MEDICAL CHECK. Hundreds of indigents lined up for free services during the recent medical, dental and optical mission by Cebu's Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko Foundation in Catigbian. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Sep 5, 2008 | Headlines, National News
GIBUNGKAG ni Presidente Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ang bahan nga una nang nakigsabot sa kalinaw tali sa mga Muslim nga sakop sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) aron hingusgan ang bag-ong palisiya sa kagamhanan.
Sagopon na sa kagamhanan ang tulo ka mga paagi: pag-dis-arma, pagbungkag sa katakus nga mga rebelde sa paglihok ug sa pagpahiuli nila sa mga komunidad.
Kini subay sa mandu sa Presidente human sa mga napalpak nga panagsabot sa kalinaw sa Mindanao.
Subay sa bag-ong palisiya, ang hisgutay sa kalinaw adto na itutok sa mga komunidad ug mga satakeholders aron dungang umolon uban sa kagamhanan ang bag-ong mapa nga agi-an sa proseso sa kalinaw, matud ni Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.
Kini samtang usab giparepaso sa presidente kang Peace Adviser Hermogenes Esperon ang mga nahaunang palisiya sa proseso sa kalinaw sa Mindanao.
Ang resulta niini usa usab sa mga basehan sa bag-ong palisiya nga subayon sa kagamhanan. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Sep 5, 2008 | Headlines, National News
SA lain pang lakang aron biyaan na ang pagsalig sa imported nga lana aron makaangkon ug koryente, subhan ni Presidente Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ang gilaraw nga 10-megawatt Libmanan Biomass Power Plant (BPP) sa September 4.
Ang $25M nga planta sa biomass magtugbang sa panginahanglan sa lungsod sa Libmanan pinaagi sa dugang 10MW kon magamit na unya.
Ang planta sa Libmanan magsugnod ug mga tahop sa humay, bagol, ug lukay aron makahimo ug elektrisidad.
Ang planta sa biomass sa Libmanan ika duha na sa Timog Luzon, ang una niini didto itukod sa Unisan Quezon sa milabayng tuig. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Sep 5, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Ubay, Bohol. CASCADING skills for tourism stakeholders in communities, the Bohol Tourism Office (BTO) in cooperation with Kahugpungan sa mga Bol-anong Guides Inc. (KABOG) equipped local tour guides of Ubay via a two day tooling workshop held here, September 2-3.
The workshop called Community Tour Guide Training was at the Ubay Agri-Park Information and Technology Services Center of the Philippine Carabao Center of the Ubay Stock Farm in Lomangog Ubay town.
In the spirit of social responsibility, KABOG is giving back to the community the blessings of tourism and its potential to spur economic activity in the rural areas especially in the farming communities of Ubay, Babog member Christopher Boncales said.
Participating in the training were Magsasaka Siyentistas, Farmer’s Information Technology and Services and representatives of local tour operators who earlier intimated their desire to learn frontline operations from government authorities and KABOG practicing tour guides.
The training workshop included among others the Bohol Tourism Situationer, Communication Skills Development, the portrait of a Tour Guide, front line service protocols, practical tour guiding techniques, commandments in tour guiding and design and itinerary preparation.
The training also includes mock tours, incident dramatizations and field-works to allow locals the full appraisal of the tourism potentials in their vicinity, says KABOG’s Roy Ometer, training designer.
We believe that by lending expert support to communities, we can also assist them in shaping people’s mindset and community attitudes to the good things that tourism brings about, says Josephine Cabarrus, BTO officer in Charge.
The Capitol BTO tour guide pool includes government based and private freelance tour-guides belonging to the KABOG.
Ubay community tourism tooling include BTO’s Chito Vaño, GO’s Christopher Boncales, Philippine Information Agency’s Rey Anthony Chiu, First Consolidate Bank training officer Roy Ometer and Inland Ways Tour Transport Operator and tour guide Nerissa Caong.
Also assisting the Capitol project is Lugod Transport Services.
Aside from assisting and capacitating tourist stakeholder through skills trainings, BTO and KABOG has also been actively assisting Capitol in their tour assistance requirements, usually with study groups, lakbay aral and its international and national VIPs. (rachiu/PIA)
UBAY TOURISM STAKEHOLDER TRAINING POOL include GO’s Boyett Boncales (foreground), PIA’s Rey Chiu, (standing) FCB/BTOs Roy Ometer, Lugod RentaCar driver and BTO’s Chito Vaño. (PIA)
LOCAL TOUR GUIDING Seminar participants for Ubay Agri-tourism enterprises listen to lectures by BTO Tour guiding training pool. (PIA)
