by admin | Jul 4, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Sandugo Trade Expo returns with an innovative range of products, crafted with the passion and soul of local craftsmen.
Harnessing growth in the travel retail market, this year’s Sandugo Trade Expo will showcase an eclectic mix of products ranging from furnishings, fixtures, wearables and novelty items, as well as fresh and processed food.
Shopping is becoming an increasingly relevant component of the tourism value chain, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Regional Director Asteria Caberte explains. “It is a determinant factor affecting destination choice, an important component of the overall travel experience and, in some cases the prime travel motivation.”
Being a member of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Community and this year’s host to the series of APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) ministerial and senior officials meetings, the travel retail market has never been more relevant to Central Visayas, Caberte added.
The trade event will open from 8:00 in the morning to 9:00 in the evening at The Block, Island City Mall, Tagbilaran City Bohol and will run from July 22 until 27, 2015.
Exhibitors featured in the trade event include those from Central Visayas as well as from neighboring provinces in Visayas and Mindanao.
Now on its 10th year as a regional trade fair, the Sandugo Trade Expo has already established name recall among buyers and visitors all over the country.
This year’s exhibit will feature timeless interpretations of locally made products focusing on heritage, culture and environment protection through ecologically-friendly, sustainable and indigenous materials. More specifically, products to be exhibited will range from furnishings and fixtures to wearables, novelty items and fashion accessories, as well as fresh and processed food.
The trade exhibit, which will open from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm., will have exhibitors from all over Central Visayas as well as from neighboring provinces in Visayas and Mindanao
Over the years, the Sandugo Regional Trade Fair has been the venue for the promotion of products of several MSMEs from the Visayas and even from the Mindanao regions.
Historically, the fair started as a provincial marketing event in Bohol, but eventually it grew into a regional fair in 2006. Since it started in 1989, the Sandugo Fair has gained the interest of buyers and institutions because of the wide variety of products and services that it offers.
Traditionally, the trade fair is a venue to market-test products made by SMEs after undergoing careful product development process. Being an annual marketing event for Region 7, it has been the medium by which DTI showcases the tangible results of its achievements for the past year or so.
by admin | Jun 30, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, June 29 (PIA)–Subling nipahinumdom ang Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sa publiko nga taman katapusan na lamang ning tuig magamit sa transaction ang mga daang bank notes o salapi.
Matud pa ni BSP-7 Acting Regional Director, Atty. Leonides Sumbi, ang mga old banknote nga gihimo niadto pang tuig 1985 mahimo na lamang magamit taman Disyembre 31, 2015.
Atol sa Kapihan sa PIA ning bag-o lang, nipasidaan si Sumbi nga bawal nang gamiton ang mga daang salaping papel sa Enero 2016 apan gi klaro niini nga mahimo pa kining pailisan sa mga bangko o sa BSP.
Matud pa nga kining maong mga salapi kapin na sa tulo ka dekada nga naa sa sirkulasyon.
Pagkahuman niini, kun naa pay natagong mga daang salapi, mahimo pa kining paalisdan sugod Enero 1, 2016 hangtud Disyembre 31, 2016.
Alang sa mga overseas Filipino workers (OFW) nga dili maka-apas sa deadline nga gitakda sa BSP, giingong mahimo silang magpa-register online sugod sa Oktubre 1, 2016 hangtud Disyembre 31, 2016 aron maalisdan ang ilang mga daang salapi.
Samtang gitumbok usab ni Hazel Arante, Bank Officer sa BSP ang kalahian sa new design series (NDS) sa new generation currency (NGC), nga mas lapad ang security thread sa bag-ong salaping papel o ang NGC ug nagkadaku ang serial number niini kun itandi sa daang salapi nga pareho ug mao pa gihapon ang mga bayani apan mas gipabata ang mga hitsura nila kun itandi sa daan. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 30, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, June 29 (PIA)–Gihimo na karon ang nagkalain-laing pagpangandam alang sa mas mabulokon ug sadyang pagsaulog sa Sandugo 2015.
Mao kini ang gipasalig sa mga opisyal nga nitambong sa gipahigayong Meet The Press Forum sa Bohol Tropics ning bag-o lang nga gipangunahan nilang Gov. Edgar Chatto, Tagbilaran City Mayor Baba Yap ug Sandugo Foundation chair ug Provincial Tourism Council Chair Atty. Lucas Nunag, binuligan usab sa Bohol Association of Hotels, Resorts, and Restaurants (BAHRR) pinaagi sa ilang president nga si Rommel Gonzales.
Gipasalig usab niini ang pagpatunhay sa kahapsay ug kalinaw ilabi na sa mga pantalan ug tugpahanan bisan sa pagdagsang sa ginaghanon sa mga Bol-anon nga mahidangat dinhi alang sa Tigum Bol-anon sa Tibuok Kalibutan (TBTK).
Ang mga kalihokan magsugod karong Hulyo 1 sa kasaulogan sa ika-49 Charter Day sa syudad sa Tagbilaran nga ipahigayon sa Bohol Cultural Center.
Gawas niini, ipahigayon ang Agri Fair (Hulyo 13-17), Trade Fair (Hulyo 22-27), International Food Fusion (Hulyo 22-26), Bohol Pop Music Festival ug Sandugo street dancing (Hulyo 26), Awards Night sa The Outstanding Boholanos Around the World (TOBAW) sa Hulyo 27 ug ang Miss Bohol 2015.
Samtang gitakdang mohimo og espesyal nga pasundayag alang sa mga Bol-anon ang Asia’s Got Talent 2015 grand winner El Gamma Penumbra sa Hulyo 27. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 19, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BOHOL, June 18 (PIA)–Ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) sa Rehiyon 7 pinaagi sa Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) migahin og P10 milyon alang sa dairy production project sa lima ka lungsod sa Bohol.
Kining proyekto naglambigit sa mga carabao-based small dairy production, milk collection ug raw milk pasteurization alang sa 500 ka Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) partner-beneficiaries, matud pa ni DSWD-7 Regional Director Mercedita Jabagat.
Dugang pa ni Jabagat nga ang mga gi-ilang pilot areas alang sa dairy commodity cluster model project mao ang mga lungsod sa Ubay, Mabini, Alicia, San Miguel ug Dagohoy.
“The pilot areas are considered as bright spot in dairy farming and to further strengthen the local dairy industry we tied up with the Philippine Carabao Center and in coordination with the Provincial Government of Bohol,” matud pa sa opisyal sa social welfare and development.
Ubos sa maong partnership, ang gi-ilang benepisyaryo sa 4Ps bansayon sa carabao dairy micro-enterprise development.
Ang kada benepisyaryo hatagan og usa ka kabaw aron sila makasugod sa ilang kaugalingong negosyo.
Ang Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) mohatag og technical assistance kalabot sa animal production, animal health, forage production, dairy production ug processing.
Usa ka technical working group nga gilangkoban sa mga tinugyanan gikan sa DSWD-7, PCC-7 ug local government units (LGUs) ang mopahigayon og regular monitoring ug evaluation aron pagseguro nga mulahotay ang maong programa. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol/DSWD7)
by admin | Jun 18, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 18 (PIA)–No less than Unites States Agency for International Development (USAid) Mission Director for the Philippines and the Pacific Islands as well Senior Adviser, program and project development officer for the largest donor agency to the Philippines hands in teaching and learning materials to Cogon teachers and students, June 18, 2015.
USAID mission director Gloria Steele and senior adviser John Spears handed for the American People, its commitment of support to the Philippines and its basic education with the instructional and learning materials, at the Cogon Elementary School.
The teaching materials and school aids are part of the Basa Pilipinas, a flagship basic education project of the USAID in support of the country’s early grades reading program.
Implemented in collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd), Basa Pilipinas aims to improve the reading skills for at least one million early grade students in Filipino, English and selected mother tongues, DepED sources explained.
It (Basa Pilipinas) hopes to achieve this by improving reading instruction, reading delivery systems, and access to quality reading materials and managing a teacher training program to maximize on the learning impacts, DepED said.
Started in January 2013 and would soon be bowing out after four years (2013-2016), Basa Pilipinas has aimed to significantly improve education in the country even as it implements the K12 educational reform, according to USAID website.
In its first year of implementation, Basa Pilipinas focused its activities in two DepEd divisions in the provinces of La Union and Cebu, and when it had pooled master trainers for grade school teachers, it spread to Bohol.
In the last quarter of 2013, USAID country director Gloria Steele and then newly installed Ambassador Philip Goldberg handed the teaching and learning materials for Maribojoc, in coordination with another USAid project Synergeia.
Basa Pilipinas also provides technical assistance to DepEd in the development of valid and reliable early grade reading standards. The project increases advocacy for early grade reading at the national level by coordinating efforts with private sector partners and developing a unified plan for a national reading campaign.
In close coordination with DepEd, Basa Pilipinas provides teaching and learning resource materials and secures formal partnership commitments from Brothers Brother Foundation, Petron Foundation and National Bookstore Foundation in the acquisition and distribution of reading materials in project sites.
This turnover highlights USAID’s commitment to assisting the Department of Education in their efforts to improve the reading skills of Filipino children, Capitol, in its invitation to media, said. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
USAID Mission Director Gloria Steele and Senior Adviser for Administration John Spears pose with Cogon Elementary pupils Clyde Tumanda and Joanna Maarat, after the dignitaries received personalized “thanks you” cards from the kids. The kids handed the card during the turn-over of learning materials from the USAID’s Basa Pilipinas program, for use of Cogon Grades 1-3 teachers. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Jun 18, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY. June 18 (PIA)–May had 27 more crimes compared to April, but Camp Dagohoy showed proof that the increase in fact is not what it implies.
At the recent provincial Peace and order Council Meeting in time for the Health Education Agriculture Tourism and Information Technology Caravan in Inabanga town, authorities from the Bohol Police Provincial Headquarters in Camp Dagohoy showed that minus the traffic related incidents (TRI) in the crime blotters, crime incidents, in fact, would be lower.
In a Powerpoint presentation, Police Senior Superintendent Dennis Agustin showed that overall, the crime of physical injuries in May topped April’s 173 cases with 227, this month.
Moreover, the Bohol police chief who used to be a key Metro Manila Station Chief, of the 227 physical injury cases in May, 144 of them are vehicular accidents.
In the last two months (April and May), total crime volume in Bohol reached 1607, but without the traffic related incidents in it, police would be looking at 1249 cases. This, Colonel Agustin pointed out, is 22% decrease.
To further highlight the disparity if traffic related incidents were not counted among cases, Col Agustin cited physical injuries and homicide cases in Bohol.
Total physical injury cases in Bohol in April and may reached 400, but 245 cases of them involved vehicular accidents. This, Col Agustin noted is 61%.
For malicious mischief, Campa Dagohoy noted 145 cases which should have been only 43 cases, if traffic related incidents were counted out of it. The TRI in this case is 70%.
Moreover, on homicide, or the killing of one person by another can either be intentional, which is murder, or unintentional, which is manslaughter, Col Agustin points out: “there were 20 cases, 10 cases of these have been traffic related, that if this were curbed, Bohol would have 50% decrease in crimes listed in blotters.
This shows that if proper attention is focused on keeping traffic violations at the minimum, total crime volume could go down and lives could be spared, a PPOC member said.
This data stunned members of the PPOC as this was the first time that the figures revealed dramatic impacts on the efforts to erase the misconception that Boholanos are troublesome owing to the high physical injury cases noted. (rac/PIA-7Bohol)
