by magnolia_eic | Aug 7, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY office of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) is now accepting applications for the upcoming Career Service Professional and Sub Professional Examinations.
According to CSC Bohol Director Cherith Nissi Asis, the examination is set Sunday October 17, 2010 and that Tagbilaran City is the venue for the examinations.
Applicants need to accomplish the CSC application form, which can be downloaded from the CSC website www.csc.gov.ph, or can be secured from the CSC Bohol Field Office in Dampas.
Four identical passport sized pictures with full name tag and taken at least three months prior to the examinations are also needed.
Applicants also present a valid identification card, which should have the applicant’s signature, birth date and authorized issuing agency head. A photocopy of the identification card also serves as a reference for room examiners during the exams days.
An examination fee of P350.00 is also collected from applicants. For inquiries, call 501 7046. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 4, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
A physicist-research-educator couple from Jagna, Bohol, Dr. Christopher C. Bernido and Dr. Ma. Victoria Carpio-Bernido president and principal, respectively, of the Research Center for Theoretical Physics in Bohol, are among 7 individuals from Bangladesh, China, Japan and Philippines who will receive the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
An announcement from the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation website said the Bernido couple are being recognized for “their purposeful commitment to both science and nation, ensuring innovative, low-cost, and effective basic education even under Philippine conditions of great scarcity and daunting poverty.”
Other awardees are Tadatoshi Akiba from Hiroshima, Japan who led a campaign for nuclear disarmament; environmentalists Huo Daishan, Pan Yue and Fu Qiping from China; and AHM Noman Khan from Bangladesh.
They will each receive a certificate, a medallion bearing the likeness of the late President, and a cash prize. They will be formally conferred the Magsaysay Award on August 31, 2010 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
The Filipino winners, the Bernido couple, won the Gawad Haydee Yorac last year: “Their partnership to build a stronger nation through science, research and a new method of teaching founded on excellence and values won the judges’ approval over nominations received from different parts of the country.”
Established in 1957 as a tribute to the Philippines’ third president, the Ramon Magsaysay Award is given every year to individuals or organizations in Asia who manifest the same sense of selfless service that ruled the life of the late and beloved Filipino leader. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 2, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
CASH SALES, including booked and under negotiation purchases surpassed the P31.1M target for this year.
The Sandugo Regional Products Showcase 2010, which started as small provincial products fair in Bohol graduated to one of the region’s most awaited annual fairs. It proved anew the promise available for cottage industries as the materials fusion this year brings a million more in target sales, data from the trade department revealed.
From the department’s unofficial and yet reliable source, cash sales generated from the five-day showcase reached P2.81 million, booked sales racked up P17 million and another under negotiations reached P12.62 million to sum a gross sales of P32, 466, 836.00 a few minutes before the official closing of the fair last Sunday.
Now into its 21st year of showcasing raw materials form Visayas’ diverse environmental resource, the new lines produced our of its research and development initiatives lay out the agency’s efforts to be environmentally conscious about the finite resources, explains DTI information Officer Jojie Villamor during the fair pre-opening press conference last week at the Prawn farm of the Island City Mall.
Working with climate change and its mitigation, the new trend is to fuse recyclables with the indigenous raw materials and showcase the artistic capacity of Visayans to produce stunning designs for the international market, added DTI Provincial Director Ma. Elena Arbon.
We are presented here with a 50% cut in raw materials and another 50% cut in garbage as these [products] end up as hand-woven patterns in bags and fashion accessories, said DTI Regional Director Asteria Caberte at the media forum.
According to Arbon, the showcase marks the culmination of the product development initiatives geared towards providing importers with the raw materials that would make it big in the international markets.
The biggest winners however are the Visayan craftsmen who would ultimately get an increase in income to further boost their economic spending.
Raffia and pandanus, Bohol’s most hopeful raw materials are now slowly engaging rural families who see the promise of providing the designs for the next century’s world fashion. (rac/PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 2, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
IT could be click alright.
With 55 amateur and professional photographer participants coming out to outdo each other during the PITIK: Tipik sa Sugong Bol-anon 2010 Sandugo Street Dancing Festival Photo Competition, the contest goal was attained and more artistic photographers are now coming out in the main stream, said contest convenor Nilo Sapong.
The shots were spectacular, amazing and it did give top caliber judges a hard time choosing the finalists, said the photojournalist and veteran local lensman.
Cebu Daily News lensman Tonee Despujo and Manila Bulletin’s Visayas-Mindanao photojournalist Cheryl Baldicantos chose ten finalists, but even the non chosen shots are worth a good run for any challenger considering the artistry we never thought was in the Boholano young artists, he added.
55 professional and amateur photographers jostled for positions and crisscrossed the Sandugo Streetdancing Parade route July 25, to be at the exact moment when dancers would show in split-seconds that character that immortalizes a Boholano.
We sought a permit from city deputy mayor Mariano Uy just to be able to allow our participants to go beyond the cordons and get as close to where the action is to get our goal, Sapong added.
Pitik, a photo contest convened by budding photo-enthusiasts in Bohol envisions to capture images immortalizing the Boholano character which has been neatly imbedded in a clash of cultures as a melting pot owing to its becoming a major tourism destination in the Visayas.
The winning entry owning the best in composition award is entry with control number 1016 and entitles the lensman Keith Joseph Sepe an overnight stay for two at the posh Bohol Tropics Resort in Tagbilaran City. He also gets a specialized trophy from Deputy Mayor Mariano Uy.
On the other hand, entry number 1037 of Benedict Ong earned the nod of veretan judges as first runner up, his winning entry entitling him for an overnight stay for two and breakfast at La Pernela Resort in San Isidro Dauis.
Cebuana artist Cathy Angeles submitting entry number 1049 grabbed second runner up which would allow her a full Cignal Digital Cable TV package with three months free load.
Top three winners also get free rides at Danao Extreme Eco-Adventure at the EcoPark in Magtangtang Danao.
Contest finalists are two entries from Sherwin Sapong 1045, Charlou Cabangal with his entry 1029, Raymund Buslon (1044), Mark Glen Cagampang (1042), Lawrence Uy (1007), Sherwin Sapong (1045) and Rufino Malalis (1011).
Finalists are also entitled to refreshments at Dunkin Donuts, Allison Restaurant and certificates (PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 29, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TO appraise tourists about the kind of service he would get in an establishment in Bohol, a tourism classification board would possibly help.
Governor Edgar Chatto, who took the lead in crafting the country’s tourism code shared this during the recent Provincial Tourism Council (PTC) meeting held at Panda Tea Garden in Dao a few weeks ago.
Chatto clarified that the Board’s task would be to put up a unified classification of accredited tourism service providers and establishment using the star rating system, so tourists would know what to expect when they are there.
Building on Bohol tourism’s successes, several local government units and private entrepreneurs have funded for establishments and service and splurge on promotional activities without being fully familiar with the industry, PTC members said.
Not a few tourists have already shared their dismay about getting into an establishment selling itself through the internet, only to find that its accommodations are minimal.
That can happen because there is no way tourists know ahead about the kind of facilities and services the establishments offer.
As everyone wants to hitch in the tourism bandwagon, it is expected that things like this happen, agree council members.
Governor Chatto said the Tourism Code of 2009 provides for a classification board that issues a uniform standard to grade tourism products and service facilities.
Putting up the classification board should breathe life into the Code in as much as to be rated are not just the infrastructure and the accessibility and the preparedness of the facility to accept guests, Chatto added.
That way, even if establishments sell services on their own, a rating system puts them in a certain rank that tourists can easily refer, said PTC Chairman Atty Lucas Nunag. (rac/PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 27, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
ILLEGAL fire-arms which find its way to the hands of criminal elements in the region alarms authorities at the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC-7).
The alarm springs from the regional police assessment that loose firearms in the region factor to the prevalence of violent crimes, especially when Cebu registers 2090 theft and 668 rob cases within the last two quarters alone.
During the recent meeting held at the Bohol Tropics Resort in Tagbilaran City, Regional Police Intelligence Chief Melvin Ramon Buenafe, in a briefing to the council cited that although there were no high profile rob, kidnapping, terror attacks of media and VIP threats, the Cebu City cases involve loose firearms.
This is despite that fact that police has just capped its Operation Kontra Boga and Bilang Boga in the implementation of the national fire-arms control policy, added Buenafe.
In his quarterly data presented, Pssupt. Buenafe pointed to the erratic trends in illegal firearms in the region starting with the last two quarters in 2010.
Regional police records also show that only 11 thousand of the 49 thousand firearms were accounted during the Oplan Bilang and Oplan Kontra Boga in the police’s pre-election crime suppression operations.
While the last three quarters showed a slight reduction in loose fire-arms, regional cops also noted a a rise in confiscated firearms in the second quarter of this year.
Records said that in the 3rd and last quarter of 2009, police succeeded in recovering 495 and 424 fire arms respectively.
The same down-trending was noted in the 1st quarter of 2010 with 390 weapons accounted.
The 2nd quarter however (April-June) proved to be an anomaly with 473 fire-arms recovered by authorities, showing an up-trend.
Concerned about how to curb the proliferation of fire-arms sourced out by criminal elements from backyard gun manufacturers in the region, PCSupt. Lani O Nerez proposed more checkpoints, monitor and stop the operation of backyard manufacturers and conduct another inventory of firearms.
The tourist region still languishing in a relatively peaceful situation with a 18.17% decline in crimes during the period, the concern from regional peace authorities is surely no false alarm. (rac/PIABohol)
