by magnolia_eic | Feb 22, 2011 | Headlines, National News
GITAMBAGAN sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ang mga Pilipino nga i-oktaba una
ang pag-biyahe sa Yemen, Libya ug Bahrain kung dili importante ang ilang lakaw.
Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa DFA nga si Ed Malaya, mahimo nilang i-rekomenda sa
Department of Labor and Employement ang deployment ban sa mga Overseas Filipino
Worker (OFW) sa maong mga nasud sa Middle East hangtud molinaw na ang sitwasyon
didto diin may mga nahitabong bayolenteng demonstrasyon.
Kagahapon, gibarugan sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) nga dili pa kinahanglang
ibakwit ang mga OFW’s nga naa sa Libya, Yemen ug Bahrain.
Matud pa sa DFA, nagpabiling luwas ang may 26,000 ka Pinoy sa Libya , 1,400 OFWs sa
Yemen ug may 31,000 pa sa Bahrain.
Nagbutang ang DFA og 24-hour crisis monitoring team sa mga Embahada ug Konsulado nga
sakop sa maong tulo ka Arab nations.
Gisiguro usab ni Vice Consul Jose Garcia, ang Phl Consulate sa Libya nga andam na usab
ang ilang contingency plans alang sa mga Pinoy nga napiit sa kagubot sa maong lugar.
(ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 21, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
GOVERNOR Edgar Chatto issues calls for all disaster risk reduction managers (DRRM) to inspect and report any
earth movements in their respective areas in the wake of land slips happening in a town here.
Local officials have reported a land slip, with crack measuring more than a meter wide, in barangays
Magsaysay, Dusita and Danicop in Sierra Bullones town.
The landslip is the latest of the land movements reported here as disaster authorities pointed to the
continuous rains in the past week affecting the integrity of the earth’s base and forcing the movements.
Few days ago, similar land slips were noted in barangays Bosongon and Cawayanan of Tubigon, in barangay
Tubod Monte of Jagna town and in Barangay Abejilan of Garcia Hernandez.
The early land slips however left no human casualty but temporarily cut off crucial road links connecting
Tubigon to Catigbian, Sierra Bullones to Jagna and to some barangays of Garcia Hernandez.
The latest landslip however prove to be more destructive as the slip caused cracks in the walls of houses and
shifts in the soil leaving gaping dangerous fissures, reported Magsaysay barangay chairman Germogenes Tadle
in a radio interview Thursday.
He also said a house in his barangay has a kitchen slowly separating from the living room, the crack in
between creating a void dangerous for its residents.
Governor Chatto said he and Mayor Alfredo Gamalo have conducted ocular inspections on the affected areas
and met with the families to warn them and assure their safety at evacuation sites.
Aside from bringing in relief assistance, the mayor in a radio interview said he has advised residents to go to
the nearest temporary resettlement at Dusita High School at night and in case the movements do not stop.
The resettlement, he said is located about a kilometer away from the affected areas.
The mayor also added that a troop of government soldiers camped at Dusita would help monitor the situation
and alert authorities of any other developments.
On this, Chatto has called on Disaster Risk Reduction Managers to inspect these affected areas and determine
its causes so appropriate interventions can be done.
At least 23 families living in barangay Magsaysay and some more families living in Danicop and Dusita have
been affected, several houses already unfit for stay.
The cracks in Magsaysay have affected rice-farm lots and these continue to widen everyday, the movements
already tearing into the newly constructed road sections of the national highway posing danger to travelers.
(racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 21, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
THANKFUL of the huge bulk of positive information from communities about criminals roaming the province,
Bohol police chief PSSupt. Constantino Barot indulges people to be more patient as the police would surely act on them.
We are assuring the people that we are not sleeping on the information they provided, said Camp Dagohoy-
based superintendent Barot, who hinted that the latest scores the law enforcement agents are getting came
from community sources.
The past few weeks saw police officers conducting lightning raids resulting in almost daily turn-over of
suspects, most of the engaged in alarming criminal activities.
Over and above these raids, police intensified its Police Integrated Patrol System which puts up mini-
lockdowns all over Bohol roads at different times of day netting countess illegal vehicles and motorcycles,
erring drivers and criminal personalities resulting in decrease of crime volumes.
At our weekly monitoring since the PIPS started, we have noted a huge decrease in criminalities, PSupt.
Arcadio Jamora averred at the recent Kapihan sa PIA aired over DyTR.
Another officer, PSInsp. Ramoncillo Sawan said that the focus areas for monitoring of street crimes, crimes
perpetrated by motorcycle riding criminals and fire-arms control show a down trend.
Over this, PSSupt. Barot urged the people to understand that it is their intention to hassle citizens but to
assure their safety and allow an environment of peace and development here.
At checkpoints, our men manning their posts know what to do and in fact they have a hold of intelligence data
which helps them keep watch for criminal elements roaming Bohol streets, Barot added.
These checkpoints intelligence data based and are sustained by the massive information shared by intelligence
assets in the barangays.
Faced with a dire need for more police presence, Bohol has pushed for the Barangay Peace-keeping Action
Teams (BPAT) which the cops established as force multipliers and has fed the enforcers’ massive intelligence
data base.
These intelligence reports are being analyzed and these have sustained our operations, many of which proved
positive, Barot admitted.
For criminals who simply evade the checkpoints, authorities have asked people to report them.
We can not be in all places at all times, and here we would like to ask people to keep the information coming,
Barot said. (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 21, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
CRIME fighting and deterrence has just become scientific in Bohol.
A police anti-crime program called the Police Integrated Patrol System (PIPS) intends to maximize the impacts
of police pro-active presence despite their being thinly spread, briefly summarizes PSSupt Constantino Barot at
the recent Kapihan sa PIA Thursday and aired live over DyTR.
Bohol police authorities under PSSUpt Barot are now coordinating efforts to spread an encompassing dragnet
to get police officers on their toes against crimes and the opportunity to get one done.
Using a system of synchronized checkpoints importing analyzed data from crime statistics in Bohol the past,
the PIPS checkpoints are set up in the very times of day when most crimes happen, in areas in Bohol where
most crimes happen and on the days of the week or month earlier found to be when crimes usually occur,
explains Barot earlier.
The setting up of mobile patrols and checkpoints are coordinated with adjoining towns to spread a fine-eyed
net that keeps areas crime free or “lock down” areas so criminals can not get in or get out, police operations
said.
This is not just to set up mandatory checkpoints, but also doubles our efforts to up foot patrols and increase
police visibility as a crime deterrent.
According to the police provincial commander, the PIPS is intelligence driven activity where every officer
manning his post at the checkpoint integrates data gathered from intelligence reports, criminal watchlists,
broadcasts and other pro-active data from a wide net of intelligence assets including barangay based anti-
crime teams.
The PIPS mobile checkpoints also puts forward the police’s Oplan Sita, anti drugs and illegal firearms, traffic
laws enforcement and defensive driving, making it truly an integrated patrol system.
Camp Dagohoy based operations chief PSupt. Arcadio Jamora Jr. bared that the checkpoints have truly dented
on the crime incidence in the past months.
Since November when PIPS was launched, police authorities have caused the impounding of about a thousand
motorcycles traveling without plates, registrations, no-road worthy, another more than 500 four-wheeled
vehicles with similar violations and erring drivers with expired or no licenses, Jamora read from his notes.
Police deputy for operations, PSinp. Ramoncillo Sawan, citing statistics from their weekly monitoring activities
averred that indeed crimes went down.
Lowered crime incidence can also be credited to the simultaneously raids on safehouses, homes and known
criminal dens, said Barot who starts to savor the successes of a good policing, (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 21, 2011 | Announcements, Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BOHOL JOB seekers and those from nearby provinces may now try their luck as Bohol Employment
and Placement Office (BEPO) coordinates special recruitment activities for workers willing to try their
luck abroad.
Needed by various agencies in their weeklong recruitment activities from February 18 to 25 at
the BEPO Office of the Capitol are factory workers, domestic helpers, medical staff, nurses, skilled
workers all for Taiwan, Hongkong, United States of America, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Dubai
of the United Arab Emirates.
BEPO has been institutionalized to assist Boholanos seeking work opportunities abroad by coursing
these facilitation through the correct government channels thereby cutting on red tape and
streamlining the process to make the paper trail as transparent, BEPO sources briefly describe their
tasks.
To fully extend their mandates, BEPO also facilitated job fairs and one-stop shop services by allied
government services to make sure workers can get their important documents on the same place at
the fair venue.
For February 18, Grand Placement Agency seeks applicants for factory workers for Taiwan, BEPO
through Romulo Tagaan said in a communication.
On the 22nd and 23rd of the same month, R.V. Tria International Recruitment Agency would be
screening for domestic helpers to Hongkong.
By the 23rd, another agency: Greenfields International Manpower Inc. seeks workers as medical staff
for hospitals in the US, domestic helpers, nurses and skilled workers for United Kingdom and the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
On February 25, IUPP Inc would be screening for various jobs for United Arab Emirates, especially for
assignment in Dubai.
Bohol, a largely skilled work exporting province has earned a spot in the country’s finances with
the once biggest foreign currency remittance from overseas workers posted at the local Philippine
National Bank, said sources from the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Now into brisk tourism industry activities, still many Boholanos are seeking work abroad knowing that
any savings they can scrape goes on to tourism related investments. (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 17, 2011 | Announcements, Headlines, National News
THERE would be no classes in all levels nationwide on Feb. 25 when the nation observes a
special holiday to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power revolution.
Malacañang clarified it would be a regular working day in the government and the private
sector. However, the Palace has urged employers to allow their employees to leave early on
that day.
Officials said the declaration of a special holiday on Feb. 25 is still in line with Proclamation
84 signed by President Aquino last year that specified all regular and special holidays for the
year 2011.
Officials prepared an elaborate celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the peaceful
revolt that ended the dictatorship of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos.
The 1986 EDSA people power revolution led to the proclamation of President Benigno
Aquino III’s mother, Corazon Aquino, as the 11th president of the Philippines after democracy
was restored to the country following the 14-year martial rule of Marcos. (PIA)
