by magnolia_eic | Jul 27, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
STAMP insurgents and get Negros Oriental declared insurgency free in three years.
This was the tall order issued by the Regional Peace and Order Council in Central Visayas (RPOC-7) through its chairman, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia to the army commander assigned for internal security operation in eastern Negros.
At the RPOC7 full council meeting held at the Bohol Tropics Resort in the tourism city of Tagbilaran, July 27, the tall order coming from the petite and yet fearless Cebu governor resounded as a crisp challenge for the army units assigned in Negros Oriental.
Negros Oriental, one of the provinces that hosted the fleeing insurgents from Bohol and Cebu has battled with the uncomfortable tag of being the remaining province in the region that is saddled with the peace and order problem.
And taking tall order is 302nd Brigade’s Colonel Manuel Garchitorena, commanding officer of the military units now tasked to reduce insurgency in the province to insignificance.
At his disposal for the tough mission are his battalion based in barangay McKinley, Guihulngan Neg. Oriental and the 79th Infantry Battalion based in Siaton.
Dipped into the highly impenetrable terrains of Negros Oriental and the easy and porous boundary to Negros Occidental, the army’s operations have been fairly successful since rebels who cross the border to Negros Occidental can hardly be pursued.
Compounded by the problem of porous boundaries in the regions, PCSupt Lane O Nerez added that the insurgency problem in Negros island can not be seen as a problem of Oriental but of the Occidental side of the island as well.
Officially getting the mandate to end insurgency there since July 1, 2010, Col Garchitorena revealed that his unit has been realigned from a bigger area of responsibility to focus his efforts in eastern Negros.
However, with the success stories from Bohol and Cebu as templates and with the guidance of the 802nd Brigade under Col. Aland Luga, seemingly, Col. Garchitorena’s 3 year deadline to put an end to insurgency is not that impossible after all. (rac/PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 27, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
ILARAW sa Kampo Dagohoy nga kon katugotan, ilang idonar ang mga nasakmit nga wangwang ngadto sa mga lugar nga may kakuyaw sa katalagman sama sa daling kalunopan.
Matud ni Pssupt Rodolfo Llorca, gilantaw na nga inay dili na kahimuslan ang mga nasakmit nga wangwang nga illegal nga gipangtaud sa mga sakyanan, ang masakpan ila nga himoong tabang sa pagpahibawo sa mga tawo sa panahon nga kinahanglan nang mo-hiklin sa katalagaman.
Sa paglusad sa Talakayan sa Insyung Pulis, gibutyag ni Llorca nga mas makatabang ang wangwang sa mga komunidad nga naa sa agi-anan sa katalagman kay sa yanong pag-embargo lang ang himoon.
Kahinunmduman nga mimandu si Presidente Simeon Benigno Aquino nga dakpon ang mga sakyanang nagtaud og wangwang aron lamang makalusot sa trapiko. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 27, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
KON buot nato nga kapun-an ang kita sa mag-uuma, ang high value commercial crops angay maoy tan-awon sa mga tinugyanan.
Ang pasabot gikan mismo sa baba sa kanhi kalihim sa Agrikultura, Arthur Yap, kinsa namulong atol sa pagbukas sa Agri-tekno Fair sa nataran sa Provincial Agriculture Office.
Kon ang usa ka ektarya nga humay mo-ani lamag 60 ka kaban ug mahali’g P50 mil, ang letsugas o lettuce mohatag sa mag-uuma’g P400 mil sa matag ektarya, butyag ni Yap, kinsa mao nay representante sa tersero distrito sa Bohol.
Bisan sa watermelon lamang, matud niya mo-hatag og P300 mil matag ektarya, ug kini may posibleng maayong pilianan sa mga mag-uuma, kinsa, dugang ni Yap, angay makapahimulos sa pagtaas sa turismo dinhi.
Kapin kon kulang 600 mil ka turista ang mosuroy sa Bohol matag tuig, ug daghan niini, dili na gani kaayo mokaon og kan-on, mao nga sumpay ni Yap, mahimong imintinar na lamang ang 113 ka porysentong rice sufficiency sa Bohol ug ugmaron ang High Value commercial crops.
May mga teknolohiyang mahimong kasawhan sa mga interesadong mag-uuma didto sa Buhatan sa Provincial Agriculture, panapos niya. (PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 26, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
A research unit that would be based at the Capitol’s executive branch would be another pro-active innovation in governance, beams Governor Edgar Chatto during a recent meeting with national government executives.
Chatto, who institutionalized research as an aid in governance also institutionalized the Special Projects Unit (SPU) at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan when he was still the province’s top legislative officer.
“We are institutionalizing a Capitol Research Group, which is a policy study body that will be working as a factual and research based unit to advance support to your offices,” Chatto told government executives in Bohol.
As a legislator, having been a board member, vice governor and congressman, Chatto has seen the need to put up a support group to allow the formalizing of legislative or technical support.
Many groups talk to the government officials about their needs and some of them do not have the capacity to draft resolutions, submit official proposals and put in proper data to support their intentions, and here enters the task of the research group, he explained.
He cited that in his experience, government agencies and offices sometimes propose amendments or repeal of certain laws and the usual process is for them to write to their representatives.
That does not always work well as the legislators need a comprehensive study group that would put up the substance of the desired legislative action, and a Capitol research body would do that for them, he elucidated some more.
“You, as field workers in the field know which needs to be corrected and your inputs to the research groups would be a big help,” he said.
“We are gathering the right people who have the training and the competence to do that and we are tapping the best minds who can do research,” said the governor.
As an initial step, Gov. Chatto has requested the SP for the transfer of at least five trusted legislative researchers to the Office of the governor, a capitol document showed.
While many see that transfer as a political action against some researchers who were allied with then Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera, a Capitol insider assured it is far from what is feared.
“There is a 95% over 5% chance that the move would be a political persecution,” Dioville Mar, one of the SP researchers who was asked transferred, said.
“We have known the governor and his desire to make government more effective,” he added (rac/PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 26, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
DEFINITELY, they are not just your usual cops.
Behind that iron hand keeping peace and order, Bohol cops also have that malleable heart that melts for our kids who would otherwise go to school barefoot.
While celebrating Police Community Relations (PCR) Month in July, officers and men of the Bohol Police Provincial Office led by Provincial Director Rodolfo A. Llorca went a bit further to hand out slippers and school supplies to young kids in rural areas.
According to PCR officer PCinspector John Gano, Camp Dagohoy has been collecting at least a pair of slippers and school supplies from more than a thousand integral men in the force to advance police relations.
The slippers go to young kids whom, police officers and men believe would be motivated to go to school if given the comfort of school supplies and slip-ons.
The activity is the BPPO’s second in a series, the first was in San Miguel town, relates PCInsp. Gano during the recent Talakayan sa Isyung Pulis (TSIP).
In San Isidro last week, Mayor Jacinto Naraga warmly welcomed the police troops led by PSSupt. Llorca during a slipper and school supply distribution ceremony to elementary school pupils of Barangay Cambansag, Cansague Norte and Abehilan at the Cambansag Primary School grounds, says San Isidro Municipal Information Officer Eric Jinne Flor.
“It’s a heart-warming scene, children and even young mother try on the new slippers, elation warmly painted in their faces,” a police-woman shares her experience during a distribution ceremony last July 16.
“How would a stonehearted cop feel when a kid tells him she will not wear the slippers yet, so it wont be dirtied, as she shows a badly dilapidated pair of worn out slippers she is wearing?” she asks.
The activity is also in support of the Oplan Balik Eskwela 2010, a program of the Department of Education and is widely supported by the Bohol Provincial Police Office (BPPO) and in partnership with the municipal government.
To expand police relations, PD Llorca even asked his wife to go with them on the ceremony in San Isidro, some 40 kilometers from Tagbilaran. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jul 21, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
GIHAN-AY na usab sa Kapitolyo ang daghang mga kalihukan alang sa paghandum sa ika 156 nga
Bohol Day.
Sumala sa memorandum ni Governor Edgar Chatto, sugdan ang adlaw sa pagsaulog sa santos nga
misa sa alas 7:15 sa buntag didto sa Cathedral ni San Jose.
Pagkahuman, mopadailos ang tanan ngadto sa Plaza Rizal diin himoon ang pagtaas sa bandila ug
paghalad sa mga bulak.
Samtang may mga art exhibits, Motorcade inubanan sa mga higanteng mascots sa nga gitamud nga
mga Bol-anon sa alas 9:00 sa buntag gikan sa Plaza nagdto sa Bohol Cultural Center, sa alas 10:: pa
sugdan ang Commemorative Program didto sa Bohol Cultural Center.
May koronasyon sa Provincial agriculture and Fisheries Council sa may al;as 3:00 sa palis didto
gihapon sa Cultural center.
Hinuon, ang labing dakong hitabo mao ang paglagda sa mga kasabutan sa UNESCO ug Bohol sa pag-
ugmad sa Suba sa Abatan sa pagdumala sa Abatan River Development Management Council didto sa
Cortes sa alas 6:00 sa kagabhion.
Kay holiday man, gi-aghat ni Gob. Chatto ang presensya sa nga empleyado sa kagamhanan sa
pagtambong sa misa, pagtaas sa bandila ug sa pagtambong sa commemorative program lamang.
(rachiu/PIA)
