by admin | Mar 31, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Mar. 30 (PIA)–Sa 16 ka syudad sa Rehiyon 7, ikaduha ang syudad sa Tagbilaran sa collection efficiency nga may 112.59% rating nga nanghawod sa mga highly urbanized cities sama sa Cebu City, Lapu-lapu City ug Mandaue City.
Ang collection efficiency gi-base sa tinuig nga target nga gisaka sa usa ka local government unit gikan sa lokal income sources sama sa Business Tax, Fees and Charges ug Economic Enterprise.
Ang koleksiyon gikan sa Economic Enterprise nakatala og 125.67% efficiency rating nga may aktuwal koleksiyon nga P40,791,605.00 batok sa tinuig nga target nga P32,460,515.00 nga maoy hinungdan nga nakuha sa syudad ang No. 1 rank sa tibuok Rehiyon 7.
Sa kinatibuk-ang ranking diin gi-kumbinar ang total collections sa Economic Enterprise, Fees ug Charges ug Business Taxes, misobra ang syudad sa Tagbilaran sa tinuig nga target niini nga P185,335.922.00 alang sa 2014, nga may actual collection nga P208,666,070.00, milabaw sa 2014 annual target ug nakatala og collection efficiency rating nga 112.59% nga nagbutang sa syudad sa Tagbilaran sa ikaduhang puwesto sa 16 ka syudad sa Rehiyon 7. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Mar 29, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (RDC) Chair for Central Visayas Gov. Edgar M. Chatto will be in Manila next week to attend the joint RDC dialogues for the whole Visayas Region.
All RDC Chairs for regions 6, 7 and 8 will then be joining line agency representatives and cabinet secretaries during deliberations of the Proposed Programs, Activities and Projects (PAPs) for 2016 which they would want to favorably endorse for the General Appropriations Act (GAA) scheduled for Tuesday, March 31.
Slated to join said combined dialogue with the RDCs will be the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and other national offices which would be directly involved in bringing together the 2016 GAA.
The purpose is to promote the “One Visayas, One Region, One People” policy to signify unity for the whole Visayas Region.
Aiming to strike two birds with one stone, Gov. Edgar convened the Provincial Development Council (PDC) Thursday so that proposals which still need proper endorsement for incorporation in the 2016 budget be included during Tuesday’s deliberations.
As a result, seven new endorsements were able to make it aboard the proposal folder to be personally submitted by Gov. Chatto at the deliberation table on Tuesday.
The following PAPs were deemed urgent and necessary to be included for GAA 2016: the construction of a new Hall of Justice, which was strongly endorsed by both Judges Suceso Arcamo and Leo Lison; the proposed 2016 projects for the Bohol Island State University by Dr. Elpidio Magante; the proposed use of land at Ubay stock farm to support Bohol’s power generation; construction of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) building; construction of the new Land Transportation Office (LTO) building; and a building to be called the Bohol Tourism Center for Culture and Arts; and the proposed construction of a tourism road in Loon to be called the Loon Uplifted Intertidal Zone (LUIZ).
LUIZ would be from the junction of the national highway in Bryg. Song-on stretching to barangays Tontonan, Cuasi, Tangnan, Pig-ot and Basdacu leading to the Loon Coastal Geomorphic Conservation Park with an estimated cost of P150M from the Department of Tourism (DOT).
As formerly, favorably and unanimously endorsed during previous meetings of the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC), a Technical Working Group (TWG) is currently working on pushing for a Children’s Home and Rehabilitation Center, a separate structure albeit a part of the Hall of Justice project.
Moreover, since it was noticed that the Ubay stock farm has a total land area of 50 hectares, it was favorably backed-up that an agricultural training for high school students be set up, to be funded by the Department of Education (DepEd), with collaboration from both Education Sec. Armin Luistro and Department of Agriculture (DA) Sec. Proceso Alcala.
Facing regional and national leaderships this Tuesday and armed with all these people-centered projects for Bohol, Gov. Chatto sees no reason that any item from the Bohol list be voted out due to lack of merit. (JLV/PGBh/EDCom)
by admin | Mar 26, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, March 25, (PIA)–Over 70 slippers for deprived children, this sums up the slipper pool which a Holy Name University (HNU) club and class intends to hand over within the next few days to beneficiaries they could identify.
HNUs Students for the Environment, Education and Development (SEED) members had to save a few from their meager allowance to buy an extra pair of slippers, while the school’s class on tourism impacts and sustainability also pitched in to make the life of a kid more memorable, even if for a bit.
In its annual activity to cap a semester, SEED members and tourism students put on their slippers and joined in a “walk to remember,” a walk for a cause which they hold regularly.
It’s a commitment to the environment, to the community and to ourselves, a SEED member said when asked what he intends to get in joining the Saturday afternoon event March 14.
What is not regular during the recent activity was that the students had to ascend Banat-i Hill and in portions of the climb, take off their slippers in an attempt to reconnect with the earth.
The initiative to reconnect with the earth is consistent with a healthy lifestyle trend called “earthing,” where man attempts to reestablish his body’s balance which has been disconnected from the earth and ground it back.
An earlier lecture sharing on Earthing happened at the HNU AV Hall where speakers impress the disconnection.
“Throughout time, humans have sat, stood, strolled, and slept on the ground – the skin of their bodies touching the skin of the Earth,” a sharer said.
And throughout time, such contact served as a conduit for transferring the Earth’s natural, gentle negative charge underfoot into the body, he continued to explain the possible source of imbalance which makes man more vulnerable to illnesses.
But modern lifestyle however has disconnected man from the earth, the usual grounding could not happen when it is hampered by thick soled rubber shoes, non-earth conductor clothing and fast paced life.
Scientists and Earthing practitioners noted that contact with the Earth, appears to uphold the electrical stability of bodies and serve as a foundation for vitality and health, thus the need to re-connect anew.
For all this, SEED members and tourism students under professor Emmylou Palacio-Noel did their little share of the walk to help needy kids, impress their position of environment protection as well as reconnect with the earth. (rac/PIABohol)
Making a stand. As others sat, several HNU SEED and tourism students made a stand for the environment and walked in slippers or barefoot to pool slippers for deprived children and to reconnect the body from the earth in attempts to start a healthy lifestyle. (rac/PIABohol)
by admin | Mar 25, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita, National News
MANILA, Mar. 25 (PIA)–Nidesider na ang Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) nga dugangan og taman Signal number 5 ang kasamtangang signals sa bagyo nga taman number 4 lamang ang gigamit sa paghatag og pasidaan sa publiko kun may kalamidad sa atong nasud.
Matud pa sa PAGASA, opisyal nang gamiton sa ahensiya ang taman Signal number 5 kun ang bagyo usa ka super typhoon nga may gikosgon nga hangin nga molapas sa 220 kilometro matag oras.
Susama niini ang niaging bagyong Yolanda nga usa ka super typhoon nga may gikosgon nga hangin`g mikabat sa 235 taman 275 kilometro matag oras.
Padayon pang gamiton sa PAGASA ang public storm warning signal hangtud number 4 nga na-adopt niadtong tuig 1997 ug gi-revised niadtong tuig 2010.
Gipasabot sa PAGASA nga Signal number 1, kun may gikosgon nga hangin`g mokabat sa 30-60 kilometro matag oras; Signal 2, kun 61-100 kph; Signal 3, kun 101-185 kph; ug Signal 4, kun kapin sa 185 kph. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Mar 25, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
HINGOTANAN ISLAND, Bien Unido, Bohol, March 24, (PIA) – Few days into the school breaks for vacation, pupils of Hingotanan in Bien Unido, get their “dreams in a box,” one that could help them spell a colorful summer.
The box are shoe boxes filled with pad paper, notebooks, crayons, pencils, pencil cases, ballpens, erasers, rulers and glue, 200 all of them for indigent kids of Hingotanan Elementary School.
Apart from that, a feeding program gathered the 200 kids in two classrooms for a packed lunch feeding program managed by the teachers, said Hingotanan principal Breeza Padillo.
“It comes to very good use especially when summer approaches and the island offers very limited options for play,” said a school teacher who asked not be named.
“Salamat sa gipanghatag,” 11 years old Marjorie Gudez said, a wide smile pasted on her face. She meekly hid her face however when asked if a photograph could be taken.
Meanwhile, another 11 year old Remie Robin, who did not get any box said he was happy for those who got their shoeboxes. He said more kids need the boxed school items more direly than he does.
A group called Information technology Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP), Congressman Aristotle Aumentado , Bohol Information Communication Technology Council (BICTC) and Philippine Call Center Institute (PCCI) crossed the seas from Ubay to deliver the kids dream boxes.
The concept started in Manila, when kids decided to gather school supplies and share them to kids needing assistance, explained IBPAP’s Raymond Lacdao, who also brought the boxes from Manila for Hingotanan’s kids from financially challenged families.
The event, billed as My dream in a box is solely intended for the 200 kids of Hingotanan, Lacdao said amidst rousing applause.
He shared that when they asked during the coordination, Congressman Aumentado picked Hingotanan, it being severly affected by the storms which ruined the island’s seaweed industry.
The volunteering group composed of Manila, Cebu and Tagbilaran City based information technology advocates handed to the kids the shoeboxes in holiday wrappers shortly after lunch.
Congressman Aris Aumentado, who could not attend the event for a speaking engagement in the city was represented by his chief of staff Dongly Camacho.
Barangay chairmen Junie Sereno and Alex Mabalata also organized barangay tanods to haul the shoeboxes from the port to the school where the events happened. (rac/PIABohol)
by admin | Mar 25, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Years back, telecom giant Globe laid fiber optic cables around Bohol, promising for information communications technology investors a high speed internet.
This should be enough to make Bohol a new hub for a reliable business processing industry.
That was also when we heard Tagbilaran was among the picked new wave cities, some places to watch because there is a programmed call center related courses in its schools, and has a stack of natural wonders as add-ons.
The celebration has hardly dies down when no less than PLDT bigwigs came to a spectacular switching on of the P600 million Domestic Fiber Optic Network in Bohol.
That event, they said, signals another astounding promise for the largely wonder economy called business process outsourcing.
With two options for acclaimed boosted speeds, the largest processors to render a new image of Bohol way up the poverty thresholds has been installed in the province.
In fact, even with single telecom giant globe in 2013, Bohol could have opened its doors for prospectors when it bade to host the national ICT Convention.
Industry workers said tit should be the perfect show window for investors to check the island which also has history and natural beauty as a value-added benefit.
The earthquake though, proved beneficial for Boholanos who seem to shuffle on the move.
The earthquake offered the perfect excuse for Bohol to lay its ICT plans aside for other pressing matters.
After the earthquake, we should now be seeing results.
And indeed, its shows: Our call center training institutions are not churning out quality workers. Other than the signs that also say Bohol is into IT, putting even the heat in it, not much have been cooking.
This is precisely what we meant when we said Bohol was right when it dreamed of developing its IT industry.
But if the development only happens in dreams, murmuring in our sleep won’t get us the investors who would open up call center seats for us.
In fact, lip service in our sleep could get us in trouble, ask those who have secrets to tell.
