by admin | Jun 15, 2015 | Headlines
TAGBILARAN CITY, June 15 (PIA)–Pre-occupied with their personal and familial concerns after attempting to gather strength from the devastating earthquake, residents of Barangay Cambansag need to rally on one common goal to concretize a resolve to get up and rise again.
And given chance to determine what they want with a fund they have been entrusted to implement, residents pick on one infrastructure that would further rise as the hallmark of their tenacity and resolve.
The Multi-purpose Building of Cambansag would rise from the P906,200.00 which the government through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has apportioned as part of the P 12.4 million Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (CIDSS) for San Isidro, according to Lucky Biel Diongson, San Isidro Kalahi Coordinator.
A part of the country’s funds to stir local communities participation in the identification of priority projects while empowering communities through a community driven development (CDD) approach, the funds have been downloaded to the barangay accounts as government community organizers teach people to be actively involved in community processes.
We had series of barangay assemblies and in the course of time, after heated debates, the people decided to build for them their multi-purpose hall, Diongson added.
Already for ground breaking, upcoming P.9M Multipurpose Building is set to gather local officials and media at the Cambanac barangay center to witness the victory of people empowerment.
San Isidro mayor Jacinto Naraga would lead the key officials including Vice mayor Teodoxio Asoy, Barangay Chairman Clemente Baguinang, Cleta Gabaisen, Emma Naraga, Rafael Rasona and key DSWD personnel who were instrumental in empowering the community.
And when it is the community who runs the show here, expect local customs and tradition to be the governing principle for the construction and its processes, shared Diongson who pointed out a blood-shedding ritual and wine toast in the program.
A traditional blood shedding activity entails the village gathered and witnessing the slaughter of a livestock or poultry, its blood spilled into the soil as an offering and supplication.
These people know that they do not own the land and somehow, the spirits should be invoked for the safety and success of the events, so when they put in a ritual within the groundbreaking ceremony, it has to happen like they figured it would. (rac/PIA-7Bohol)
by admin | Jun 9, 2015 | Headlines, National News
Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz reminded private sector employers to do their patriotic duty by observing proper pay rules on 12 June, Independence Day.
Baldoz said 12 June, when Filipinos mark the country’s Independence Day, is a regular holiday. She added that President Benigno S. Aquino III, in Proclamation 831 dated 17 July 2014, declared Independence Day as a regular holiday.
“Proper observance of all holiday pay rules strengthens decent work and builds productivity. Voluntary labor standards compliance redounds to social protection and the competitiveness of business and industry,” she added.
For June 12, the following pay rules will apply:
- If the employee did not work, he or she shall be paid 100 percent of his or her salary for that day.
- If the employee worked, he or she shall be paid 200 percent of his/her regular salary for that day for the first eight hours. For work done in excess of eight hours (overtime work), the employee shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his or her hourly rate.
- If 12 June is the employee’s rest day and he or she still reported for work, he or she shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his or her daily rate of 200 percent.
- If the employee worked more than eight hours on his or her rest day on 12 June, he or she shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his or her hourly rate on the day.
Baldoz urged private sector employers to “observe voluntary compliance with labor standards, particularly with payment of correct wages/salaries of employees who will report for work on Independence Day.” (DOLE/PIA)
by admin | Jun 9, 2015 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, June 09 (PIA)–Epektibong programa sa gobyerno ang hinungdan sa pagkunhod sa gidaghanon sa mga out-of-school youth sa Pilipinas.
Kini matud pa sa taho nga gipagawas sa Philippine Institute for Development Studies ug United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) kalabot sa ilang pagtuon sa kahimtang sa mga Out-of-School Children sa Pilipinas.
Base sa taho, mikunhod ang proportion sa out-of-school youth sa kinatibuk-ang gidaghanon sa mga batang Pilipino tungod sa mga inisyatiba sa pipila ka ahensya sa gobyerno.
Gikan sa 11.7 porsiyento niadtong 2008, mikunhod kini sa 5.21 porsiyento sa tuig 2012.
Matud pa ni Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda, welcome development ang maong taho diin miresulta na ang programa sa Department of Education (DepEd) nga mandatory kindergarten ug Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) sa Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Matud pa ni Lacierda, kini ang bunga sa paghatag og importansiya ug pamuhonan sa administrasyong Aquino sa katawhang Pilipino. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 6, 2015 | Headlines
Yahoo has announced that it is shutting down Yahoo Maps at the end of June. Maps will still be used in the context of Yahoo search and on several other Yahoo properties including Flickr. In the announcement, Yahoo said “We made this decision to better align resources to Yahoo’s priorities as our business has evolved since we first launched Yahoo Maps eight years ago.”
Yahoo Maps had become very popular but Google Maps has overtaken it for a long time already in many fronts. With Apple putting more resources behind its own map service, the competition has only gotten fiercer for Yahoo Maps.
Other media-specific services will also be shutdown in June.
by admin | Jun 4, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 3, (PIA) –Admitting they lack the capability of fighting credit card scams, Bohol Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) has requested police top authorities to capacitate local police in handling incidents or cases of credit card fraud.
In its previous meeting last month, Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry has asked the local police leadership tips on how to handle credit card scams, which may have already victimized high end resorts in Panglao.
Former banker and now resort manager Marietta Gasatan earlier asked the local police on what to do in instances when they could tell that somebody is using a bogus credit card.
Gasatan, who had a long stint as a bank manager is not alien to credit card use.
But, in her experience, customers pre book a room in the resort, arrives and then stays, swiping cards in payment of bills and then leaves before the resort point of sale machine could communicate with the bank about the veracity of the card usage.
Processing the credit card transaction takes time, Gasatan told members of the PPOC in a meeting at the Governor’s Mansion Conference Hall.
Before the bank could tell that there was illegal usage, the customer has checked out leaving a heap of unsettled accounts.
This may not be as serious but since this causes great financial turmoil for a victim of fraud and potentially put him in danger, something must be done.
What is the proper procedure in coordinating with police authorities when a credit card fraudster gets into the establishment? she asked.
Police Superintendent Jeffrey Caballes, on the situation admitted that local Bohol police has no formal training on credit card fraud.
Over this, the PPOC moved to request the Philippine National Police through OIC Director General Leonardo Espina, to capacitate Bohol PNP personnel in handling incidents or cases of credit card fraud.
In the meantime, PSSUpt Dennis Agustin suggested an information drive in the form of a video presentation to be spread via the social network.
The information would be about the precautionary measures that the public should be aware and adopt. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | May 27, 2015 | Headlines
From an exchange of bullets and trail of dead bodies, the war between Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army of the National Democratic Front (CNN) shifted to another field.
Perhaps running out of bullets, the army and the CNN seemingly agreed to continues the battle in a humane manner.
At least in Bohol, they elevated the fight into less bloody, but equally deadly war.
Words, because nobody could run out of words, and so they agreed, word war it is.
The army has come to the warfront with nary a firearm, one that made them sitting ducks to the barrage of propaganda. In this war, the army is ill-equipped.
On the other hand, the CNN are veterans in the word war: themselves rising into the ranks by sheer use of their convincing power.
But resources-wise, the army can haul in as much as they can dump. With a large fan-base, the army can blast like a shotgun and sort everything later.
Strategic in their approaches, the CNN fights their war by their pickings.
Like a sniper perched on high ground, the CNN fights a more brilliant war than we can know. Of course, that war is never clean.
Both forces employ witty doses of lies, in neat wrappings of truths and half truths.
Most recently, the army insists Bohol is still insurgency free.
But the CNN said they are back. And they published their return with an alleged attack of a camp in Mabini.
Unluckily, it could be a mistake the CNN would have to deal with.
Because in the normal world, people’s eyebrows raise when those who “harass” file the blotter and use it to say, we did it.
As they said, you can’t win a war with fireworks and press releases.
