by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Headlines, Health and Medicine, National News
MANILA, Mar. 05 (PIA)–Nipasidaan ang Department of Health (DOH) sa publiko batok sa mga usong sakit karong ting-init.
Kini human sa abiso sa Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) nga angay pangandaman ang mas taas nga temperatura sa nasud kun padayon nang mosulod ang ting-init sa tungatunga sa Marso.
Gikan sa kasamtangang average temperature nga 34 degrees Celsius (°C), mahimo pa kining mosaka sa 36 °C pag-abot sa Abril ug Mayo.
Bunga kini sa paghinay sa northeast monsoon o Amihan nga nagdala og bugnaw nga hangin gikan sa Siberia ug China, ug ang pagbalhin sa init nga hangin gikan sa dagat.
Tungod niini, gipaabot nga modaghan ang insidente sa allergic conjuncitivitis o sore eyes, heat stroke ug fungal infection sa panit.
Nabutang usab sa kakuyaw ang mga bata sa hulga sa dehydration ug chicken pox o hangga.
Giingong angay usab bantayan ang mas daling pagkapan-os sa mga pagkaon tungod sa init nga panahon nga mahimong makaingon og food poisoning.
Tambag pa ni DOH Acting Secretary Janette Garin, ipatuman kanunay ang kalimpyo, mokaon og mga sustansyadong pagkaon ug sigaraduhong igo ang tulog aron maalimahan ang panglawas.
May tanyag usab ang DOH og libreng bakuna batok sa measles o tipdas ug uban pang sakit sa tanang pampublikong tunghaan sa umaabot Hunyo. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, Mar. 05 (PIA)–Nipasidaan ang Department of Justice (DOJ) sa publiko nga mag-amping batok sa nikatap nga matang sa pagpangilad sa internet o online.
Sa pahayag ni Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, nagkadaghan ang mga kaso sa ‘online sextortion’ o sekswal nga pagpangilkil gamit ang internet, base sa datos nga nahipos sa DOJ.
Sa advisory nga gipagawas sa DOJ, padayon nga nadugangan ang mga nadawat nga reklamo sa Philippine National Police-Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) nga nag-ingong biktima sila sa ‘sextortion’.
Pasabot ni De Lima, kasagarang mogamit sa pekeng personalidad sa internet ang mga ‘sextortionist’.
“Makikipagkilala ang mga ito sa target na biktima. Kapag nakuha na nito ang tiwala ng target, hihikayatin nito ang walang kamalay-malay na biktima na gumawa ng mga sekswal na bagay habang kinukunan ang sarili,” matud pa sa kalihim.
Gamiton sa ‘sextortionist’ ang mga hulagway o video sa biktima aron makapangilkil og salapi.
Mao nga tambag ni De Lima sa mga tiggamit sa internet, ampingan ang personal information ug dili dayon mosalig sa mga dili kaila.
Matud pa sa DOJ, makapangilad lamang ang maong mga ‘sextortionist’ kun magpasagad ang online users sa pagdawat og mga dili kailang accounts. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Mar. 05 (PIA)–Ang tibuok lalawigan sa Bohol makasinati og tibuok adlaw nga blackout sa Sabado, Marso 7, 2015.
Kini tungod sa pagpalong sa 138KV Maasin-Ubay power line sa National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).
Ang tigpamaba sa NGCP nga si Rosette Martinez, nipahibalo sa publiko nga ang sugang dagitab mapalong sugod sa alas 6 sa buntag ug ibalik sa alas 5 sa hapon.
Matud pa ni Martinez, ang 11 ka oras nga power interruption gamiton alang sa tinuig nga preventive maintenance sa Maasin-Ubay transmission line.
Kini nagpasabot nga ang tanang konsumidor sa elektrisidad sa Bohol nga gi-alagaran sa Bohol Light Company Inc. (BLCI), Bohol Electric Cooperative (BOHECO) I ug II apektado.
Gi dugang usab ni Martinez nga ang 100MVA ug 5MVA transformers apektado usab sa maong tinuig nga preventive maintenance apil na ang 15 MVAR Shunt Reactor ug ang 138kV switch yard equipments.
Kining mga ekipo anaa nahimutang sa Ubay Sub-Station ug Tugas Cable Terminal Station.
Ang maong mga estasyon adunay gitipigan nga high voltage equipment ug line protection relays. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Headlines
TESDA DG VILLANUEVA will personally hand in toolkits to TESDA STEP scholars as he comes to Bohol on Wednesday.
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, February 25 (PIA)—Seven Technical Vocational Institutions (TVIs) training Boholanos to be in the province’s workforce roll out 1,468 fresh graduates in fitting rites at the Bohol Island State University (BISU) in Bilar, March 4.
And no less than Technical Education Skills Development Authority Secretary Joel Villanueva comes to witness the graduation ceremonies which coincide with the Bohol-led HEAT-IT Caravan in Bilar on that day.
Of the seven TIV’s, BISU-Bilar contributed 728 fresh graduates for housekeeping and bartending, food and beverage and commercial cooking, front office operations, computer hardware servicing, animal production and horticulture, all of them now holding a national certification 2 rating, according to a document from TESDA Bohol head Dr. Francisca Opog.
BISU also produced through a TESDA’s Ladderized Educational Program (LEP) scholarship some computer programming graduates with NC 4 ratings.
On the other hand, the Provincial Training Center (PTC), also in Bilar, through TESDA’s Special Training for Employment Program produced national certified 2 rating motorcycle and small engine repair, carpentry, electrical installation and maintenance.
The same center also churned out cooking, swine raising, poultry raising and small ruminants raising graduates. PTC Bilar contributes 396 fresh graduate workers.
The PTC in Pilar, on the other hand contributes 124 graduates into the new workforce with national certification 2 graduates in shielded metal arc welding through STEP and community based massage therapy.
Meanwhile, city based TVI Divine Light College Inc., adds 100 NC 2 graduates in Cookery and Food and beverage services via TESDA’s Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP), documents from TESDA states.
Trinidad Municipal College produced 50 new automotive servicing trained workers through TESDA’s TWSP, while Florance Learning Center in Anda, through TESDA’s Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA) pitched in NC 2 food and beverage and household services.
PTC in Inabanga, through TESDA’s STEP, has 20 graduates in plumbing with NC 2 certification.
Secretary Villanueva, on that same day turns over TESDA’s pledge of commitment for ABOT-ALAM program, while TESDA regional Director Rosanna Urdaneta, Dr. Opog, Bohol Division Superintendent Wilfreda Bongalos and City Schools Div head Dr. Evangel Luminarias witnessing.
Aside from its commitment, TESDA secretary Villanueva also turns over 273 various toolkits to the STEP scholars for carpentry, wiring installation devices, motorcycle preventive maintenance on mechanical and electrical systems, small ruminant toolkits as well as swine raising toolkits. (RAC/PIABohol)
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Effective Development Communications Unit
Bohol enters into a new collaboration with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Asian Development Bank, and the Government of Canada for JobStart Philippines.
Gov. Edgar Chatto is set to sign the agreement for the partnership with DOLE, ADB and the Canadian Government on March 4 at the HEAT IT Bohol caravan in Bilar.
A first in the country for a province, JobStartPH, a partnership initiative seeks to assist young Filipinos who wish to join the labor force by providing opportunities to not only improve their technical skills but also develop life skills required to succeed in the workplace.
JobStartPH also aims to strengthen guidance services, labor market information, and job search assistance for employment officers.
The program, which will be implemented through the Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO) under the Office of the Governor, will accommodate out of school youth aged 18-24 who have finished high school but are not unemployed and have had a year or less work experience.
BEPO will facilitate the pre-qualification and registration of Boholano youth and select beneficiaries, which job-readiness will be assessed and provided life skills training, career guidance, and labor market information.
BEPO will then match the trained youth to available internships and provide referrals, after which the youth will train under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to acquire the necessary skills for the internship with the employers.
Chatto in his State of the Province Address (SOPA), had expressed enthusiasm to embark on the new partnership project which will not only strengthen BEPO employment capabilities but more importantly cater to the needs of the out of school youth (OSY) in the province.
The governor welcomed the initiative as Bohol launched last year the nationwide Abot-Alam program, also an inter-agency convergence effort to locate OSYs and enroll them in program interventions in education, entrepreneurship, and employment.
“JobStartPH is a very welcome intervention for a portion of the out of school youth that we have accounted for and mapped out under the Abot Alam program”, he said.
JobStartPH has only been piloted in the four institutionalized Public Employment Service Offices in Quezon City, San Fernando in Pampanga, Taguig City, and General Trias in Cavite. (Leah/EDCOM)
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Effective Development Communications Unit
Bohol will host the 15th International Nannoplankton Association Conference on March 7-12, 2015 in Panglao.
A first in the Philippines, the international conference gathers scientists from all over the world who have interest in living or fossil calcerous nannoplankton.
The Nannoworks Laboratory of the National Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of the Philippines Diliman won the bid to host the biennial conference over other groups from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Germany.
This is only the second time that the conference will be held in Asia, after Japan, since it began in 1985.
Geology Professor Alyssa Peleo-Alampay and co-organizer Associate Professor Allan Gil Fernando, both proud and honored to be hosting the event said the conference is a great opportunity not just for the institute but also for the Philippine scientific community to prove that the country is at par with other developed countries in this scientific field.
University of the Philippines graduate and recently honored among 50 distinguished outstanding alumni of the UP School of Economics, Gov. Edgar Chatto is set to welcome the international experts at the opening of the international conference.
The international fossil conference is seen as a testament to the growing positive reputation of Filipino scientists and an important proof of the Philippine scientists’ abilities to engage in scientific advancements in the world.
Calcareous nannoplankton are single-celled plantlike organisms (algal protists) living in the world’s oceans since the Triassic period (more than 200 million years ago).
The shell remains (called coccoliths) of these organisms can only be studied under a light microscope with at least 1000 times magnification. The specimens can also be viewed in greater detail with a special type of microscope called the scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Academic and industry scientists will present through oral and poster presentations their respective researches about these organisms during the conference.
The past two conferences were held in Yamagata in Japan in 2010, and then in Reston in Virgina, US in 2013.
(Leah/EDCOM)
