by magnolia_eic | Jan 21, 2011 | Headlines, National News
Adunay kapin sa 7,000 ka indibidwal ang nahimong biktima sa human rights violations niadtong rehimeng Marcos nga apil sa makadawat sa $7.5 milyon compensation fund.
Kini human nitabang ang Commission on Human Rights (CHR) nga mapadali ang pag verify sa mga claimants diin apil niini si CHR Chairperson Etta Rosales.
Matud pa ni Marie Cruz, media relations officer sa CHR nga bisan kauban si Rosales sa claimants, gibalibaran niini ang madawat nga parte sa giingong kantidad sa compensation fund ug i-donate na lamang niya kini sa usa ka foundation.
Matud pa, nakipag-tambayayong usab si Rosales kang Atty Robert Swift, lead counsel sa gidusong class suit aron mahapsay ang proseso sa paghatag og salapi sa mga biktima sa pagpanglapas sa tawhanong katungod. Si Cruz niingon nga makadawat og $1,000 ang matag biktima o miyembro sa gipasakang class action suit batok kang kanhi Presidente Ferdinand Marcos. (ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jan 21, 2011 | Headlines, National News, Weather Coverage
Filipinos can expect a short and wet summer this year due to the heavy rains to be brought by the La Niña weather phenomenon, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Monday.
PAGASA officer-in-charge Graciano Yumul Jr. said Monday the “dry” part of summer is likely to last between April and the first half of May only.
After the summer, he said the public may have to brace for cyclones that he said may be intense.
La Niña is a weather phenomenon characterized by heavy rains and lower temperatures.
PAGASA earlier said it expects 20 to 22 cyclones to hit the country this year.
Yumul appealed anew to the public to help protect PAGASA’s weather detection and monitoring equipment, following the recent theft of such items in Pangasinan.
He made the appeal even as he said PAGASA hopes to complete the installation of seven Doppler radars nationwide this year. (PIA/PAGASA)
by magnolia_eic | Jan 21, 2011 | Headlines, National News
President Benigno S. Aquino III expressed confidence that newly- appointed Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman veteran election lawyer Sixto Brillantes , Jr., is capable of ensuring reforms in the country’s electoral system.
“I have always said that correct identification of a problem leads to the correct solutions. Brillantes’ long career in election law has given him extensive on-the-ground expertise, not just of the law, but also of the systems and processes that govern our electoral exercises,” the President said in a statement read by Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda in a press briefing in Malacanang Monday.
The President appointed Brillantes last Jan. 15 to serve out the unexpired term of former COMELEC chairman Jose Melo, who resigned on the same date.
The Chief Executive stressed that Brillantes’ extensive knowledge of the law and experience as election lawyer is what the country needs to initiate electoral reforms.
He added that Brillantes’ main task is to ensure that there will be an orderly and credible election in 2013. (PIA/PCOO)
by magnolia_eic | Jan 18, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
MIHANGYO ang Bohol Provincial Police Office ug pagsabot sa publiko sa padayon nilang gihimong check points sa mga kadalanan sa probinsya.
Si PSupt. Antonieto Cuyos nipadayag sa maong hangyo atol sa usa ka information sharing sa unang tigum alang sa tuig 2011 sa Association of United Development Information Officers sa Bohol (AUDIO).
Gihangyo usab ni Cuyos ang tabang sa mga information officers sa mga kalungsuran ug mga ahensya sa kagamhanan nga tabangan usab sila sa pagpasabot ngadto sa katawhan ilabi na gayod niining panahuna nga adunay hulga sa kalinaw sa gikataho’ng paghidangnat sa mga sakop sa Abu Sayyaf dinhi sa probinsiya sa Bohol.
Ang buhatan sa BPPO-PNP gi-ulan og daghang reklamo ning mga milabay’ng adlaw sa mga motorista tungod sa gihimo niining mga check point sa mga kadalanan.
Gipasabot ni Cuyos nga ang gihimong mga check points sa kapilisan usa ka pamaagi nga ma-proteksyunan ang mga katawhan batok sa mga dautang elemento sa katilingban ug malikayan ang mga dili angayan nga mga panghitabo. (ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jan 18, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
“THE deadline has passed but we are not letting our guards down,” Col. Romeo Brawner told the Provincial Peace and Order Council during a meeting at the Bohol Tropics Thursday January 13.
“We are fortunate that we have surpassed the deadline set by Abu to kidnap foreigners,” Brawner said during the recent assessment of the peace and security situation in Bohol.
“We will not let our guards down, we will maintain security not only in Panglao but the whole of Bohol as well, our boats will remain in the area and our focus will remain in place,” he added.
Governor Edgar Chatto also echoed Brawner pronouncements saying “The most critical moments are when we believe the danger has passed.”
Brawner, who leads the army Special Forces Battalion cited the intelligence report that said a band of Abu Sayaff bandits were heading to Bohol on a double-engine speedboat Monday January 10 to kidnap two foreign tourists.
Brawner also confirmed that the same intelligence report which said that the deadline for the operation was within January 10-11.
“Bohol was indeed a target for kidnapping by Abusayyaf, our Manila intelligence has confirmed,” Brawner shared.
Immediately after receiving the intelligence report, which was validated and was said to have come from a reliable agent in Zamboanga, police and military authorities in Bohol rolled into motion security operations and crisis management planning to get the most immediate deterrent assets in the general area where the hit was supposed to happen.
PSSupt Constantino Barot also immediately placed Bohol under a heightened security alert even as he directed the deployment of additional police troops, augmented police stations located within Panglao island and neighboring tourist islands of Balicasag and Pamilacan.
The Philippine Navy also sent a patrol boat while the Army Special Forces also deployed their sea asset to beef up security operations in the seas.
Barot also bared that the Philippine Air Force has committed an attack and a utility chopper for the operations of the area south of Bohol.
On this, Governor Edgar Chatto stressed that “Our preparedness would never be substituted by anything else.”
We should always have the capability to respond not only to the present, but future dangers and threats, Chatto told PPOC members. (racPIABohol)
