by admin | May 11, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol May 11, (PIA) –Expect new tourism write-ups for Bohol from a team of writers and television feature people of the country’s leading networks and media organizations abroad.
This as a team led by corporate communications manager Viveca Singson, of Cebu Pacific Air brought in a team of nine travel and feature writers from giant television networks, major news organizations in the country including somebody from Cable News Network Philippines.
Eager to see how Bohol has fared after a year of the devastating earthquake and how tourism has stood up after the disaster, the group also tested new products including the ones packaged by the province along with Japan International Cooperation Agency.
The team, which visited the mystical island of Lamanoc and did the dolphin and whale watching including an island hop at the famed Pamilacan came out of Bohol with positive reviews.
Billeted at the Bellevue Hotel, the group also did a countryside Bohol tour with topnotch tour guide and professor Joseph Eric Canete.
No less than the Lamanoc Island caretaker and inhouse tour guide Fortunato Simbajon who took over the group in the treks and adventures in the mystical island.
Lamanoc, an islet off Barangay Badiang in Anda has been believed to be a pre-hispanic ritual site of the Visayan healers and medicine men, it is also believed to be an island home of the spirits.
Also a primary burial ground for early Boholanos, Lamanoc features old graveyards with clay potteries, dug out primary, secondary and tertiary burial coffins, hematite paintings, numerous rock shelters, ritual caves and ritual remnants.
On the other hand, Pamilacan dolphin experience was a hit for the group, which saw over a thousand spinner and bottle nosed dolphins bow-riding and fishtailing during the early Sunday morning tour.
The team had Angel’s Wings Tours and Travels serving their tour requirements. (rac/PIA-7Bohol/PR)
by admin | Apr 21, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
We have said it again and thought reiterating it makes us a broken record. But breaking record, we will.
Because of this injustice, our leaders have just mocked the poor among us whose only chance of decent protein is getting fish in its meal.
Of course, they are doing something. They have asked the BFAR to get us fishports. And refrigerated vans. And fish cages. And lambaklad. And God knows what else.
Notwithstanding the friendliness of Bohol local papers to the local leaders, 75%, and that’s three of the four English local tabloids picked on the hopelessness people and thus the papers see on the effort to bring down the price of the modest galunggong.
You see, it’s no rocket science because everyone can see that over half, or some 30 of 48 Bohol towns are coastal municipalities.
And as much as we are made to believe that Bohol seas are overfished by a few notches, it is still a fact that were sitting on a migration freeway highway for tuna, tulingan and numerous other pelagic fish, we also have a seed bank for fish at the northeastern Danajon Bank.
In short, without fear of contradiction, we can aver that Bohol sits on a fish bank.
And everyone knows that by saying these waters are overfished, they are actually saying there is an oversupply of fish being caught.
Elementary economics slam us right in the face. When there’s too much supply, there’s got to be less demand, thus price would go down.
No. Not here.
They said, fishermen are selling their catch in bulk in Cebu and nearby provinces. By that, they have to bleed in fuel and gun their engines two full hours at top speed to rush the fish to Cebu? Do we even know how much that would be costing them?
Forget it, the last guys who would risk it to Cebu and selling it like the price they are selling in Cebu, it’s no brainer to say that fish businessmen doing this got utok bolinaw.
It’s a cartel, stupid, it’s a cartel is staring us right in the face.
And our leaders point us to an opposite direction.
If this is not disservice, then maybe this has become of our politicians. Utok bolinao.
It’s not that Boholanos are asking the leaders to make malasugue, grouper or the snappers cheap.
It’s as simple as bringing the lowly man’s galunggong, borot-borot and tulingan down so as the daily wage-deprived construction worker can pump on something decent enough to call as food.
If they can’t get it done by hooking into the cartel, then maybe we can look for somebody who will? Then we’d have broken a record.
by admin | Apr 17, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BOHOL, April 15 (PIA)–Uban sa mapa ug mga LED nga suga, ma-monitor na karon sa mga Bol-anon ang kalamboan sa mga proyekto sa Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) nga Bohol Earthquake Assistance (BEA) repair and reconstruction.
Uban sa Bohol city, municipal ug provincial governments, si DILG Kalihim Mar Roxas mi-presentar sa gitawag nga “City of Lights.”
Usa kini ka project monitoring tool nga mag-determinar sa estado sa nagkalain-laing BEA projects sa lalawigan human gitay-og sa 7.2 magnitude nga linog ang lalawigan sa Bohol ug ubang parte usab sa Sugbo niadtong Oktubre 15, 2013.
Gibuksan ni Roxas ang geographical representation atol sa iyang pagbisita sa lungsod sa Sagbayan niadtong Martes diin gitukod ang public market sa maong lungsod nga nagkantidad og P52 milyon ug nagpadayon usab ang pag-ayo sa ilang civic center nga nagkantyidad og P23.4 milyon.
“Gusto nating makita ng taumbayan na nagagastos nang maayos ang buwis na ibinabayad nila”, matud pa ni Roxas.
Sa pagkakaron, 57 ka repair projects nga may suma-total nga P9.7 milyon ang nahuman na. Tulo niining proyekto ang sa lalawigan sa Sugbo nga naapektuhan usab sa maong linog.
Giseguro ni Roxas nga ang P327.75 milyon gikan sa pondo sa BEA-DILG gastohon gayud aron mahuman ang nagpabiling 8 ka proyekto sa Sugbo ug 198 ka repair ug reconstruction nga proyekto sa Bohol ug uban pang nakalinyang proyekto.
Sa kinatibuk-an, labaw sa P2.4 bilyon ang gigahin alang sa rehabilitasyon sa labaw sa libo ka proposed repair ug reconstruction projects nga gi-proseso ug gi-subli na sa DILG.
Ang maong geographical representation gidala sa provincial capitol aron makita sa publiko. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol/with reports from DILG)
by admin | Apr 13, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
A Capitol exec has asked the DENR to look into how in heaven’s sake can anybody apply for a title of an islet in Panglao, considering a titling policy for smaller islands.
The owners accordingly fenced off the islet, which has a sandbar that has caught tourists fancy and one which moves with the whims of the time and tide.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources Department Administrative Order (DAO) 2000-083 says small islets 500 hectares are strict conservation and should these islets be leased before the effectivity of the DAO, these are to continue until the lease expires and should not be renewed.
This positive development came just in time, considering that Panglao is finally getting braver, showing more bones than those who must.
With its recent push for sustainable environment in the island town and its islets, Panglao local officials, can’t play politics with the environment: its goose that lays the golden eggs.
Of course, guarding its seas is a challenge for Panglao, which has just awakened from stupor, feeling sore and dirty after conscience-less divers whose idea of beauty is that which they can only keep, have endlessly raped their seas.
Look no further off the islets of Gak-ang, Puntod and Balicasag.
Just at the government acquired lots to comprise the new Panglao airport, some wise Capitol guys who keep the vital information which lands are within the airport complex design couldn’t get their hands off the cookie jar of profits.
But too many cooks spoil the broth.
If Capitol could pore into the trivialities of what Panglao LGU has ably pored into, why can’t it start its own Sherlock Holmes into these guys.
You see, the problem with a good credit when you’re on top is that its gets to you first. Never mind those who slaved for that glory.
Our challenge to Capitol, drop the crap, go for the neck of those in your walls who enriched themselves from the knowledge they are sworn to keep. Let Panglao do its job, they are on track.
Going after the prospectors should be a good lesson if you could go beyond the slap on the wrist.
This is breach in public confidence and when it happens, it’s almost always a heaping serving of administrative and criminal charges.
But, Capitol is unlike Panglao. So, maybe Panglao can also show the way for Capitol?
by admin | Apr 1, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Finally, authorities from the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) are implementing the “no-plate-no-travel” policy across the country starting April 1.
The policy is pitifully belated, some PR hungry wise guys already jumped the gun when this was reported for implementation last year. Now, if this is supposed to be a cure to the country’s traffic maladies, it is also supposed to traffic something into somewhere.
After all those years, we delight at the pronouncement. Delight is exactly the term.
No, it is not because it should lessen accidents as the move clearly intends to wipe out illegal and unregistered cars off the roads.
This should significantly enhance the flow of traffic because the big boys who do not mind dis-obeying rules if only to show how they rule the streets, are now to be flagged down, fined and their big toys face impounding.
We delight because this would be perfect chance for the government to finally cash in on the new standardized car plates, which would soon be sported in all vehicles. Good it it’s the government.
Without the use of technology or massive manpower augmentation in the streets, imagine how the LTO could handle that?
Now this itself, again presents another equally enriching opportunity for wise guys in uniform who make the streets their ATM dispensers.
Talk of mulcting traffic lieutenants, or hulidaps and goons on the streets, talk of fixers at LTO clearly fixing themselves, among other things.
What the DOTC is doing is classic “bringing out the big guns and hoping that everyone would just lie there and die there.”
From the start, this has the makings of a lemon car.
This bland pronouncement has just effectively shown ‘buti na lang may ganito, kay sa, sa wala” mentality.
If this is what we get from a government that is expected to govern, there is this dire fixing that must be done. When implemented in April, isn’t this any foolishy at all?
by admin | Mar 31, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BOHOL, Mar. 30 (PIA)–Gitay-og og magnitude 4.7 nga linog ang lalawigan sa Bohol karong Lunes sa buntag.
Natala sa Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) ang sentro sa linog sa walo ka kilometro sa habagatang sidlakan sa Buenavista, Bohol sa alas 9:47 sa buntag.
May gilawmon nga tulo ka kilometro ang linog nga tectonic ang gigikanan.
Nabati ang Intensity 5 sa lungsod sa San Miguel, samtang Intensity 4 usab sa Lapu-Lapu City sa Cebu ug sa Buenavista.
Intensity 3 usab ang nabati sa syudad sa Tagbilaran sa Bohol, Iloilo City, Bogo City sa Cebu, ug Bacolod City, samtang Intensity 1 sa President Roxas, Capiz.
Wala hinuo`y nataho nga naangol sa maong linog, samtang wala usab gipaabot nga aftershocks ang Phivolcs. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
