by admin | Feb 14, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
PRESS RELEASE
Philippine Information Agency-Bohol Information Center
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PIA conducts communication skills
Training to Bohol eco tour guides
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, February 14, (PIA) – The Philippine Information Agency in Bohol recently extended its training services to aspiring community tour guides preparing for the launching of the eco-tourism Bohol program which international partners are opening soon.
PIA Bohol shared Communication Skills and Effective Interaction to community tour guides of the 15 sites which Bohol Tourism Office of the Office of the Governor and Provincial Tourism Council are readying for Visit Bohol 2015.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) helped Bohol firm up Visit Bohol 2015, and launched it in Manila last January.
On the other hand, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in its Sustainable Environment for Panglao Project, pushed for support to eco-tourism, explains JICA’s Go Kimura.
JICA is helping communities with eco-tourism potentials to upgrade their sites through infrastructure in access roads, tourism support through rubber boots for tourists, signages, welcome banners, landmark markers, guide plates and information technology assistance that allows tourists to use a quick response(QR) information code scanner on their smartphones.
A QR code is a type of 2D bar code that is often used to provide access to information through a mobile phone.
And while information of the sites can be scanned by smartphone wielding tourists, a local tour guide in these eco-tourism sites would allow tourists to get a better feel of the sites and culture of the people through personal interaction.
“It may not be just ease in the use of the language, but in the ability to thread a good storyline that tells stories interestingly,” the PIA told over 30 tour guides during the training held at the mansion.
With language barriers expected when foreign tourists get to communities, PIA hinted the “use of verbal as well as non-verbal communication, while listening and adapting to the situation as the more appropriate means to get through the information.”
JICA and BTO has asked PIA Bohol to handle communication skills trainings for guides, even as BTO officer Josephine Cabarrus urged the guides to be serious with the training to be properly equipped. (RAC/PIABohol)
by admin | Feb 14, 2015 | Headlines
Engr. Maurito Lim, a DYRD Anchorman, was shot in the head a few minutes before his 11:00AM radio program at the radio station today February 14, 2015.
Lim was immediately rushed to a hospital in the city but his condition is currently unknown.
There is no known motive yet for the shooting.
Update: 12:20 – “Chairman Mau”, as he was fondly called by his colleagues at DYRD-AM, is currently unconscious and has undergone CT scan. Police has determined he was shot at close range and got hit on his face.
(Source: Flash Report from Willy Maestrado.)
by admin | Feb 3, 2015 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, Feb. 02 (PIA)–Nipasidaan ang Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) sa tanang mga Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) nga mag-amping sa paggamit sa social media sama sa Facebook ug Twitter.
Matud pa ni POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac, bisan maayo nga paagi ang social media aron mahimong maduol pa gihapon sa mga mahal sa kinabuhi bisan naa sa ubang nasud, giingong mahimo pa gihapon kining hinungdan sa problema.
Giingong angay sundon ang mga sumbanan aron malikay sa kagubot.
Una, angay nga limitahan ang mga post alang sa mga higala ug siguradohong mga close friends lamang ang naa sa friends list.
Matud pa nga dili angay i-add ang boss o agalon ug i-lain gayud ang personal account sa trabaho.
Dili angay gamiton ang social media aron ipagawas ang mga reklamo sa kumpanya imbes nga ipaagi kini sa grievance committee sa gi-trabahuan.
Giingong dili usab angay sawayon ang lahing kultura, relihiyon ug pamatasan sa mga tawo sa nasud nga gi-trabahuan ug dili usab moapil sa mga debate kalabot sa politika ug relihiyon.
Ug labi sa tanan, dili angay mag-post og mga malaw-ay nga hulagway. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Feb 3, 2015 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, Feb. 02 (PIA)–Mikabat sa 12.4 milyong Pinoy ang walay trabaho sa ika-upat nga kwarter sa 2014.
Kapareho kini sa 27% nga joblessness rate nga pinakataas sukad matala ang 27.5% niadtong Disyembre 2013.
Base kini sa survey sa Social Weather Stations (SWS) nga gipahigayon niadtong Nobyembre 27 hangtud Disyembre 1 sa 1,800 ka respondents.
Tungod niini, nikabat sa 25.4% ang unemployment rate average sa tuig 2014 nga mas taas kun itandi sa 25.2% niadtong 2013.
Base sa pagtuon sa maong survey firm, ang pagsaka sa jobless rate niadtong milabay nga duha ka tuig tungod na usab sa paghinay sa paglambo sa gross domestic product tungod sa miigong kalamidad sa nasud.
Bisan pa niini, migawas usab sa resulta sa maong survey nga 36% sa respondents ang positibong modaghan pa ang mag-abli og trabaho sa mosunod nga 12 ka buwan.
Samtang 20% usab ang miingon nga mokunhod ang available jobs ug 32% ang nagtuo nga walay mabag-o.
Migawas nga +16 ang net optimism on job availability sa mga Pinoy nga naa sa klasipikasyong “fair.” (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Feb 3, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
February 1, 2015
TO : ALL EDITORS/ PUBLISHERS
Newspapers
ALL STATION MANAGERS
Radio Stations
Province of Bohol
RE : MEDIA COVERAGE
US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg will visit Bohol on February 5, 2013.
He will witness, together with Gov. Edgar Chatto, the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between USAID represented by Mission Director Gloria Steele and Tagbilaran City represented by Mayor Baba Yap.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has named Tagbilaran City as one of the beneficiaries of its Cities Development Initiative (CDI) program which is aimed to support secondary cities to spur local economic growth. Tagbilaran is the first city in the Visayas region to be named as a CDI.
Considering the importance of this activity may request you and/or your media to the said event on February 5, from 9:30 to 11:00am at Dagohoy Hall, Bohol Tropics, city
For confirmation and more information, please contact Andrea Echavez at 0915-3062273.
Thank you so much and we hope that you can join us and work together for the best interest of Bohol.
Very Truly Yours,
AUGUSTUS E. ESCOBIA
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by admin | Feb 3, 2015 | Headlines, National News
During an employee performance recognition ceremony recently held in Manila, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Regional Director Asteria Caberte bagged the 2013 DTI Employee of the Year (Executive Level) over 9 other finalists.
In its System on Performance, Rewards and Incentives (SPRInts) Awards, Caberte and another DTI staff were shortlisted as finalists of the DTI SPRInts Awards and the regional director bagged the coveted award for year 2013.
Caberte, formerly DTI Bohol Provincial Director, assumed the Regional Officer after a well- deserved promotion years back. Like her notably well-performing stint in Bohol, her regional coverage allowed her a much greater responsibility, which she adeptly fitted herself in.
Caberte was cited for her excellent response to typhoon Yolanda by bringing Diskwento Caravan to disaster-hit areas in Bohol and in Leyte, during the earthquake and typhoon Yolanda.
Herself, a calamity victim, Caberte readily organized a DTI team to assess damage to the business environment in Bohol and in Leyte and, setting aside her damaged home, she led a discounts caravan to even up the playing field and monitor compliance of the consumer laws, to make basic commodities accessible to all.
“Her vigor and commitment in doing her job, belie the hardships she had gone through a few weeks after the storm,” and the earthquake which damaged her home”, her nomination paper to the SPRints Awards stated.
Moreover, her leadership has made DTI-Central Visayas among the best performing regional agencies in the country based on the over-all agency performance, DTI sources also revealed.
Caberte’s stint is rare in as much as the DTI, an agency comprised of over 2,000 employees, has shortlisted some 56 employees and executives with the best performance and behavioral ratings by an internal evaluation team.
The selection was based on the 9 core values of the trade industry agency, according to the same DTI sources.
A third party team composed of the Civil Service Commission, ISA, Career Service Executive Board, Commission on Audit and MetroBank Foundation evaluated the finalists, DTI said. (ends)
