by magnolia_eic | Apr 12, 2010 | Election 2010, Local News / Bohol Balita
INFORMATION on the correlation of population, health and environment (PHE) in its naked essence gets exposed at a forum to be held at the Governor’s Mansion Thursday.
The forum, billed as Puso, Puson, Pananampalataya at Pulitika gathers key resource persons to present reproductive health (RH) issues and how its multi-facets affect the Filipino society, says NGO representative and convenor Emilia Roslinda.
The forum brings to one place RH advocates (puso), politicians (Pulitika), church authorities people and common people including those who profess the faith and those who swear in good conscience, but are about to make crucial informed decisions.
It also becomes relevant at this time when we are choosing national and local candidates whom we could bank on in bringing voices to the larger legislative plenum especially in our beliefs in issues affecting us, Roslinda added. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Apr 7, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Panaghoy Children’s Foundation founder and gubernatorial candidate Cesar Montano, met with potential donors of computers at a luncheon meeting and press conference at the Bohol Tropics resort Wednesday. Some 3,000 computers have been offered to be donated by a company called Loral. These computers will be initially handed to a Foundation called Direct Effect, who will in turn, give the donated desk top computers to Panaghoy Children’s Foundation for distribution among the different schools in the province, particularly to those who could not afford to provide their students of such facility.
Among the personalities present during the meeting was Mr. Pablito Yra, representative of Loral, Mr. Joe Ofamen, head of Direct Effect Foundation, and Cesar Montano’s wife, Ms. Sunshine Cruz.
Despite the potential positive result of such proposal, Yra stressed that although he may want to donate all computers to the province, the approval of the officials in his company is still needed so that the project can push through. Yra also added that the computers have been used by the satellite engineers of his company for about 3 years, but are still in good condition and are high end.
Meanwhile, Montano has assured everyone that if the project pushes through, he will be distributing the computers to institutions who deserve and need it.
Cesar Montano with wife Sunshine at the background fielded questions from the media during the meeting with Direct Effect Foundation
by admin | Apr 1, 2010 | Election 2010, Local News / Bohol Balita
A complete computer set donated to 114 public schools is worth 170,000 each? Scandalous!
These were the questions Boholanos asked when an advertisement was published at a local paper using documents from the Department of Education that 114 computers donated by Cong. Edgar Chatto to 114 public schools showed an extremely overpriced computers totalling 19,380,000.
Even computer store owners shook their heads in disbelief when confronted with the advertisement which showed an overly priced computers that are not in fact loaded with all the expensive perks. According to some owners, even the latest models of computers accessorized with the latest gadgets do not fetch such scandalous price.
Read the complete story here from Bohol Times Online.
by admin | Mar 30, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita, Tech Talk
Auza.Net completed its selection of students who will undergo its Summer 2010 OJT Program on March 31, 2010. More than 30 applicants were screened and interviewed from Bohol Island State University, Holy Name University and University of Bohol.
16 promising students qualified for the program and will start their OJT program on April 5, 2010. The company’s summer OJT program has been a successful project allowing its trainees to be highly qualified job applicants to various IT companies upon graduation.
The students who qualified, in alphabetical order, are:
Alinab, Ivy
Alombro, Jagad Marxcarlo
Balaba, Noel
Bonao, Analyn
Calope, Mary Lee
Corrales, Mark Angelou
Damasin, Anna Rea
Jumila, Mikejun
Naguita, Hanna Harrette
Naquila, Lalaine
Malayao, Glenn Mark
Omalsa, Louraine
Pequino, Catherine
Raut, Mary Jean
Suarez, Sweetenia
Tapuroc, Mark Paul
by boholbalita | Mar 26, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
SLOWLY moving out of the World Health Organization tuberculosis (TB) watch-list, the Philippines continues to find innovations to attain the commitment to cut the coughing scare into half this year.
With 2010 as the halfway mark for the global plan to stop TB in 2015 as a commitment to the millennium development goals, health authorities during the World TB Day commemoration in Bohol resound the call for partnerships with sectors and forge alliances to accelerate the action.
The activity, brought by Provincial Council Against Tuberculosis (ProCAT) “is one of the strategies we make to widen the awareness of the alarming disease that goes beyond being a health concern to economic in nature,” points out Dr. Jude Doblas.
TB is hitting men in their most productive ages, agrees Imelda Ochavillo, who coordinates the Social Mobilization on Tuberculosis (SMT) project of the a civil society group present in Bohol.
In fact, during the TB Forum at the BQ Atrium March 24, resource persons composed of a doctor, a nurse, a representative from the National TB Control Program, an NGO and a volunteer all agree that social mobilization can beat time in the fight against tubercle bacillus.
“There is a rather strong need for social mobilization and relentless seeking for innovations to dent on TB, impresses Ochavillo who directs World Vision Development Foundation’s SMT project, and one of the forum convenors.
Despite an upgraded ranking from seventh to ninth in the new World Health Organization TB watchlist, the country remains to be one of the “22 high-burdened” countries in the list, the Department of Health revealed.
TB is still the sixth leading cause of death and illness in the Philippines, mouths Perla Cajolog, volunteer member of the TB Task Force.
Dr. Doblas, who is president of the local association of municipal health officers (AMHOP) here said “TB kills 75 Filipinos everyday.”
Now that TB-stricken individuals are becoming more open to seek consultation and treatment, the advocacy, communication and social mobilization on TB must be a perfect strategy to raise detection and cure percentages, says Ochavillo.
To arrest TB, the DOH had adopted the WHO recommended Directly Observe Treatment Short (DOTS) course.
For each patient coming to its DOTS centers, the agency offers free diagnosis and treatment amounting to P2,000. (PIA-Bohol)
by boholbalita | Mar 26, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
WHATEVER is thrown to stir the simmering political brew in Bohol, the police, military and the civil society is ready.
On the eve before the campaign for local positions open, PSSupt. Anthony Obenza reported that a company of police reinforcements from then 4th Regional Mobile Group, now the Regional Public Safety Group was on its way to three towns in Bohol to keep peace.
Speaking during the Provincial Peace and Order Council Meeting March 25, at the Seglim of the Bohol Tropics, Obenza said a platoon each from the company would be assigned as augmentation force to the integral police units of Getafe, Trinidad and Ubay.
The top Camp Dagohoy officer added that he received the deployment instructions just Tuesday but did not elaborate on the specific reasons reasons why such a deployment was requested.
Earlier, the Council received reports about the entry of goons in the Second District, and believed to be sent to intimidate voters into supporting individual candidates.
On the other hand, speaking for the newly promoted Brig. General Alan Luga, 802nd Brigade in Carmen town, major Edurado Malig-on Jr. said the entire province is now being closely monitored by the military through its different units strategically located all over Bohol.
Malig-on, who gave the brigade’s first ever happy report after Bohol was declared insurgency free last February 11 said they are now eyeing the activity of the militant legal fronts called District White Area Committees in their efforts to recover lost ground.
After consistent anti-poverty efforts theough convergence of efforts, the armed members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front left the fight to legal front members.
The battle for recovery efforts are now mainly staged in schools and urban areas, military intelligence operatives shared to the council earlier.
Aside from the brigade and its support units all over Bohol, Maj Jose Laplap Jr of the Special Forces Batallion said they are handling close to a thousand CAFGU regulars in 30 detachments now exercising holding operations to keep internal security.
The military also did not discount the possibility that even without the armed insurgents now in Bohol, some would use intimidation to exact money.
This too as the civil society here through the PPOC has organized the coordinating council for Clean Honest Orderly and Peaeful Elections (CCCHOPE) at the provincial and municipal levels, reports Interior and local government provincial director Rustica Mascarinas.
CCCHOPE spreads election campaigns awareness and puts up safety mechanisms to lay the grounds for clean, honest orderly and peaceful elections.
The CCCHOPE has just finished with the covenant signing for a peaceful elections for provincial and city officials while the municipal covenant signing activities would be trickled soon. (PIA-Bohol)
