by magnolia_eic | Sep 28, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
WITH the project jatropha showing signs of being in jeopardy, Governor Edgar Chatto said he has commissioned a study group to review the contracts and see what the provincial government can do.
Then briskly sold by capitol through a point person, Project jatropha hopes to ignite in Bohol’s idle lands the habit of cultivating jatropha curcas, as an alternative source of livelihood and at the same time furnishing the source for the government’s bio-fuel development program.
Former governor Erico Aumentado believed that growing jatropha is a good alternative livelihood especially when the government itself is buying through the Philippine National oil Company under the Department of Energy’s alternative energy development program.
The project jatropha accordingly assures some 24,000 farmhand jobs, and the governor wasted no time in inking a memorandum of agreement with Philippine National Oil Company-Alternative Fuels Corporation (PNOC-AFC) that would seal the Project Jatropha here.
The initial covenant was for Bohol to convert its idle lands into productive green-fuel source with the initial 3,000 hectares of jatropha curcas plantation, the farmers themselves getting paid P1.25 per plant while eight years later still owning the fruit-bearing tuba-tuba.
That agreement signed in 2009 also allowed PNOC to put up P23,000 per hectare as mobility fund which would be used for sourcing out for planting materials, labor component and inputs.
According to sources, one of the MOA provisions, call for the PNOC to buy jatropha from Bohol farmers in the next 25 years, considering the escalation costs.
But despite a dream-come true promise for Bohol farmers, recent reports said that financiers have backed out of the agreements and the present governor is at a loss on how to manage the problem.
Left with practically a combustible investment with people already nurturing fruiting jatropha and no buyers, Governor Edgar Chatto said part of the study is to determine the content of the initial agreements, identify the sites reforested with jatropha, and what are the deliverables of each signatory.
We need to review the agreements to that we will have an idea on how to approach the problem and craft solutions, Chatto said. (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 28, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
GOVERNOR Edgar Chatto would be the only Filipino and the only local government leader and resource speaker during the webinars on World Rabies Day September 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM, said reports from the Bohol Rabies Prevention and Eradication Council (BRPEC).
A webinar is a workshop or lecture delivered over the web. They may be one-way Webcast, or there may be interaction between the audience and the presenters, almost similar to a virtual seminar, web conference and webcast, according to pcencyclopedia.
Provincial Veterinarian and BRPEC Acton Officer Dr. Stella Marie Lapiz said Chatto’s participation in the web-based seminar is a great privilege for Bohol to share its experience in rabies prevention and control to the whole world.
One of the country’s leading anti-rabies program, Bohol’s rabies prevention has even taken off ahead of the passing of the country’s anti-rabies program and its implementing rules and regulations.
With a perfect record of zero human or canine rabies cases 23 months after launching the province-wide community based anti-rabies program, authorities couldn’t hide their excitement on the success considering that Bohol used to be among the top provinces threatened by rabies.
Gov. Chatto, she said would be sharing the “Implementation of the Bohol Provincial Rabies Elimination Program: Perspective of the Chief Local Executive” as a way of input on a web seminar that top-bills the world’s leading anti-rabies advocates.
He could be seen on the web on September 28, 6:00 PM.
Home-based inter-actors who pre-register on a pre-determined link can join the webinar, co-hosted by Global Alliance for Rabies Control and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Speakers, along with governor Chatto include Manhattan-based Betsy Miranda of the Global Alliance for Rabies Control on Generating Community Support in Implementing a Rabies Elimination Program, Brenda Rivera of Puerto Rico’s Department of Health who will be speaking on Engaging school-age children in the fight against rabies: The Puerto Rico experience.
Also on the webinar is Katinka deBalogh of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome Italy, who will speak on the One Health Concept as an opportunity for Rabies Control, Todd Smith of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta with his Past, present and future rabies biogenics, G. Robert Weedon of Global Alliance for Rabies Control on Animal Population Control and Rabies Prevention. (rac/PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 28, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
WALA gikinahanglan ang drug test alang sa mga magpapili sa bisan unsang posisyon sa umaabot nga Sangguniang Kabataan ug barangay eleksyon sa Oktubre 25, kini matud pa ni Bohol Provincial Election Supervisor Eliseo Labaria.
Sa usa ka pagpakig-pulong, si Labaria niluwat sa maong pamahayag tungod kay wala may polisiya ang Comelec nga nag-require sa mga magpapili nga mopaubos og drug test sa pagpahigayon sa piniliay og sa filing sa certificate of candidacy nga magsugod sa Oktubre 1, 2010.
Ang Comelec mopahigayon sa piniliay balik sa manual nga eleksyon o dili na mogamit sa poll count optic scan (PCOS) machines.
Matud pa ni Labaria nga ang Comelec ni re-clustered sa mga presinto sa mga botante, ug gi-ubsan ang gidaghanon sa mga mo botar ngadto sa 500 sa 2 o 3 ka clustered presincts gikan sa liboan nga naghuot sa lima ka presinto atol sa milabay’ng Mayo 10, 2010 nga piniliay.
Ang pag-ihap sa mga balota human sa piniliay himuon sa karaan nga pamaagi, gamit sa ballot boxes. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 28, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
THERE will be no drug test required for candidates running in the coming back-to-manual Sangguniang Kabataan ang barangay elections on October 25, said Bohol Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Eliseo Labaria.
The Comelec provincial boss issued the statement in an interview since no Comelec policy requiring candidates for drug test in the conduct of the elections and filing of the certificate of candidacy starting October 1, 2010.
The Comelec will conduct the said elections back to manual or no more use of poll count optic scan (PCOS) machines.
Atty. Labaria said that the Comelec has re-clustered the precinct composition of voters, reducing the number of voters to some 500 in 2 or 3 clustered precincts from a thousand lumping five precincts during the May 10, 2010 elections.
Consequently, canvassing of votes cast after the elections will be done in old-fashion way – manually, using the ballot boxes. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 28, 2010 | Headlines, National News
AFTER a long delay, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has finally gave the go signal for the printing of voters’ identification (ID) cards for over 34 million voters nationwide.
In a resolution, the Commission approved the request for printing of voters’ ID cards after ensuring that the voters’ records have been cleansed of multiple registrants.
Comelec Directors Teopisto Elnas (Operations) and Ester Villaflor-Roxas (Technical Matters) have reported that more than 35 million voters have already undergone the processing via the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS).
According to Elnas and Villaflor-Roxas, the procedure enabled the poll body to identify and remove from the list hundreds of thousands of multiple registrants.
They added that out of 35 million records processed, 738,640 records were found to be true and these records were already forwarded to the field offices for deletion. (PIA)
