by magnolia_eic | Jul 27, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
KON buot nato nga kapun-an ang kita sa mag-uuma, ang high value commercial crops angay maoy tan-awon sa mga tinugyanan.
Ang pasabot gikan mismo sa baba sa kanhi kalihim sa Agrikultura, Arthur Yap, kinsa namulong atol sa pagbukas sa Agri-tekno Fair sa nataran sa Provincial Agriculture Office.
Kon ang usa ka ektarya nga humay mo-ani lamag 60 ka kaban ug mahali’g P50 mil, ang letsugas o lettuce mohatag sa mag-uuma’g P400 mil sa matag ektarya, butyag ni Yap, kinsa mao nay representante sa tersero distrito sa Bohol.
Bisan sa watermelon lamang, matud niya mo-hatag og P300 mil matag ektarya, ug kini may posibleng maayong pilianan sa mga mag-uuma, kinsa, dugang ni Yap, angay makapahimulos sa pagtaas sa turismo dinhi.
Kapin kon kulang 600 mil ka turista ang mosuroy sa Bohol matag tuig, ug daghan niini, dili na gani kaayo mokaon og kan-on, mao nga sumpay ni Yap, mahimong imintinar na lamang ang 113 ka porysentong rice sufficiency sa Bohol ug ugmaron ang High Value commercial crops.
May mga teknolohiyang mahimong kasawhan sa mga interesadong mag-uuma didto sa Buhatan sa Provincial Agriculture, panapos niya. (PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 26, 2010 | Headlines, National News
SENATOR Juan Ponce Enrile was re-elected Senate President on Monday, ending a deadlock between two Senate factions allied with President Benigno Aquino III and Sen. Manuel Villar.
Enrile took his oath before Sen. Franklin Drilon, who was designated presiding officer during the voting. Enrile easily defeated another nominee, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, for the position of Senate President after getting 17 of the 20 votes. Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago was not present during the voting.
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, meanwhile, was voted Senate President pro tempore.
In his speech, Enrile thanked his fellow senators for choosing him to head the Upper Chamber. He said his election as Senate President was unique in the country’s history after senators set aside partisan politics and reached a consensus to elect a new head of the Upper Chamber.
Liberal Party Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan earlier withdrew from the Senate Presidency race after failing to secure the needed 13 votes to clinch the chamber’s top post.
The senator announced the move on Sunday, saying this should now restore unity in the upper chamber. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 26, 2010 | Headlines, National News
THE House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 227 against 29, for Quezon City Rep. Feliciano Belmonte Jr. as the House Speaker.
The House session started at exactly 10 a.m. with Secretary General Marilyn Barua Yap presiding over the proceedings.
Liberal Party (LP) secretary general and Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya nominated Belmonte while Representatives Bernadeth Herrera Dy, Arnulfo Fuentebella, Rolando Andaya, Jesus Crispin Remulla, and Vincent Crisologo, seconded the motion.
Belmonte went up against Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, who was nominated by fellow Lakas-Kampi-CMD member Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano, Rep. Danilo Suarez, and Rep. Augusto Syjuco Jr.
All in all, 258 House members attended the opening of the session and nearly 88 percent of them (or 237 members) voted for Belmonte.
Belmonte previously held the House’s top post from Jan. 24, 2001 to June that same year. He then went on to serve as Quezon City mayor until winning as congressman of the city’s fourth district during the recent May 10 polls. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 26, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
A research unit that would be based at the Capitol’s executive branch would be another pro-active innovation in governance, beams Governor Edgar Chatto during a recent meeting with national government executives.
Chatto, who institutionalized research as an aid in governance also institutionalized the Special Projects Unit (SPU) at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan when he was still the province’s top legislative officer.
“We are institutionalizing a Capitol Research Group, which is a policy study body that will be working as a factual and research based unit to advance support to your offices,” Chatto told government executives in Bohol.
As a legislator, having been a board member, vice governor and congressman, Chatto has seen the need to put up a support group to allow the formalizing of legislative or technical support.
Many groups talk to the government officials about their needs and some of them do not have the capacity to draft resolutions, submit official proposals and put in proper data to support their intentions, and here enters the task of the research group, he explained.
He cited that in his experience, government agencies and offices sometimes propose amendments or repeal of certain laws and the usual process is for them to write to their representatives.
That does not always work well as the legislators need a comprehensive study group that would put up the substance of the desired legislative action, and a Capitol research body would do that for them, he elucidated some more.
“You, as field workers in the field know which needs to be corrected and your inputs to the research groups would be a big help,” he said.
“We are gathering the right people who have the training and the competence to do that and we are tapping the best minds who can do research,” said the governor.
As an initial step, Gov. Chatto has requested the SP for the transfer of at least five trusted legislative researchers to the Office of the governor, a capitol document showed.
While many see that transfer as a political action against some researchers who were allied with then Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera, a Capitol insider assured it is far from what is feared.
“There is a 95% over 5% chance that the move would be a political persecution,” Dioville Mar, one of the SP researchers who was asked transferred, said.
“We have known the governor and his desire to make government more effective,” he added (rac/PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 26, 2010 | Headlines, National News
A Catholic Church official urged President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to state publicly his position on the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill in his first State of the Nation Address on July 26.
Fr. Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Commission on Family and Life, said on Thursday Aquino should lay down his plan regarding family planning.
“His next years at the helm of the government would show if he believes our populace is an asset or liability … Our appeal to him is prioritize good governance and poverty would be solved,” Castro said in an article posted on the CBCP news site.
Earlier, Philippine bishops urged Aquino to reject current policies that promote artificial contraception to control the country’s growing population.
CBCP President Nereo Odchimar said the government must protect the sanctity of life by putting an end to contraceptive mentality.
Odchimar said the bishops hope the new administration will not pursue programs that promote the use of contraceptives such as condoms and pills.
Aquino has been known to be in favor of the reproductive health bill, saying he wants contraceptives to be available in government health centers, the CBCP noted. (PIA-Bohol)
