by admin | Mar 17, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
19th March 4pm – 5.30pm, Fablab @ BISU
Following the successful launch of TAFIAS WORLD FAMOUS TILAPIA CHIPS (tafias.org), Janno Siimar and Robin Gurney will tell how they went about creating this luxury pasalubong brand. There will follow a Q&A session for attendees to ask questions to help their own branding and marketing plans for their small businesses.
Often there is no shortage of ideas and practical tools, yet the gap in a small enterprise’s skillset is marketing. This event is an opportunity to learn how to PRESENT and SELL from two of the best. Bohol is thankful to these two individuals who hail from faraway Estonia and the UK, kindly offering to share their knowledge.
Attendees with active or planned small businesses are encouraged to attend. The mission is to help small business in Bohol.
Should you wish to attend, register and RSVP on http://meetu.ps/2H9bpM to reserve a seat. Tickets are free but required for admittance.
This event is part of an Andakidz project co-funded by the Estonian Government Development Fund. Promoted by Techtalks.ph.
TAFIAS WORLD FAMOUS TILAPIA CHIPS (tafias.org)
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Mar. 12 (PIA)–Human sa MS “Europa” ug “Minerva,” laing cruise ship na usab ang gitakdang modunggo sa pantalan sa Tagbilaran ugmang adlawa, Marso 13, 2015.
Ang L’ Austral nga gidumala sa French Shipping Company Compagnie Du Ponant mahidangat dinhi sa syudad ugma sa alas 7:30 sa buntag.
Ang lalawigan sa Bohol maoy labing unang port of call sa maiden voyage niini sa Pilipinas.
Ang maong cruise ship naggikan sa Darwin, nasud sa Australia ug nihapit sa Indonesia ug Malaysia usa mahidangat dinhi sa Pilipinas.
Ang maong barko adunay 264 ka pasahero, kasagaran French nationals, ug may 150 ka crew staff kini.
Niadtong Mayo 2011, ang L’Austral niapil sa Ponant’s fleet.
Samtang nia sa Bohol, masinati sa mga turistang sakay sa maong cruise ship ang Bohol Countryside Tour nga naglakip sa Loboc river cruise ug Abatan Community life tour. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Mar 11, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Please be informed that an international cruiseship, L’Austral operated by a French Shipping Company Compagnie Du Ponant will arrive in Tagbilaran on March 13, 2015.
Bohol will be the first port of call during its maiden voyage to the Philippines. The cruiseship will originate from Darwin, Australia to Indonesia and Malaysia enroute to the Philippines. There are about 264 passengers, mostly French nationals and 150 crew staff.
Here they experience the Bohol Countryside Tour with Loboc river cruise and lunch and halfday Abatan Community life tour.
For your information and guidance.
Very Truly Yours,
AUGUSTUS E. ESCOBIA
Head
by admin | Mar 8, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
By JUNE S. BLANCO
“GRADUATING” barangay officials are now one step closer to retirement benefits.
This after Rep. Erico Aristotle Aumentado (Bohol, 2nd District) filed a bill seeking the grant of benefits upon retirement of the punong barangay, members of the Sangguniang Pambarangay, barangay secretaries and treasurers as well as the barangay tanods, barangay health workers (BHWs), day care workers (DCWs), and members of the Lupong Tagapamayapa.
The move, in effect, amends Republic Act 7160 or the Local Government Code. It expands the scope of “barangay officials” as expounded in RA 7160.
Under House Bill 325, officials who are 60 years old and have served the barangay for at least nine years in an elective or appointive capacity stand to get a lump sum upon their retirement equivalent to their honorarium for 12 months but not to exceed P100,000.
Aumentado said the bill also intends to recognize the efforts of the barangay officials who, more often than not, are the frontliners in addressing problems in their locatoities, especially the remote ones.
In these cases, he said, when barangay folks manage to contact the police, sheer distance, rough roads and poor logistics often make their arrival too late – either the troublemaker has left, or the trouble has gone beyond control.
He added that the retirement age of 60 instead of the 65 of most civil servants also intends to let the retirees enjoy their remaining years with some funds to start a business or an income-generating project while still active and able.
In the Philippine setting where extended families are often the norm, the head of the family, who may be the father or mother, takes even their married children and even grandchildren under their wing. This means, the head may not save up for himself, or herself, for some needs after retirement, hence the envisioned benefit.
Under the bill, the retirement fund will be taken from the increase in the barangays’ share in the 20% development fund – from 40% to 41%. The 1% excess shall be kept in trust for the retirement fund.
by admin | Mar 8, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
There must be something stirring the police to keep the fight against drugs.
That something should be huge enough to make drug successes a breakfast fare in most Bohol homes.
But the increasing spike in drug-related apprehensions tells us two things: either this fight is dead serious. Or this fight is a sick joke.
If, for every drug personality caught, we take a sip from our morning coffee, nervousness would catch us by noon.
At the current rate that the police are slamming steel gates on drug offenders, it wouldn’t be a wonder if one day, our jails would be more populated than outside it.
And at the same rate we are stacking evidences and stashing drugs from the streets, we would be the biggest hoarders of illegal substances and firearms, in no time at all.
Of course, finally putting these drug personalities behind bars is another long story.
While police account close to 50 drug suspects every month, the courts dispose an average of 10-15 cases, for the same period.
In the last months for example, of the ten drug cases that got to courts, joint drug teams only score between one to two convictions.
And still, relentlessly, the police are out on the streets, stalking, staking, waiting to pounce on the pusher so they can populate the cells some more.
And yet, the problem seems worse than yesterday. We may be winning the battle, but we are losing the war. Miserably.
We have seen the police pursue a cop-killer and in no time at all, they had him.
We have seen them wage this fight, and still the problem compounds every minute.
It may not be long before the police realize the futility of this fight, and it might not be, for long.
by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Mar. 05 (PIA)–Ang tibuok lalawigan sa Bohol makasinati og tibuok adlaw nga blackout sa Sabado, Marso 7, 2015.
Kini tungod sa pagpalong sa 138KV Maasin-Ubay power line sa National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).
Ang tigpamaba sa NGCP nga si Rosette Martinez, nipahibalo sa publiko nga ang sugang dagitab mapalong sugod sa alas 6 sa buntag ug ibalik sa alas 5 sa hapon.
Matud pa ni Martinez, ang 11 ka oras nga power interruption gamiton alang sa tinuig nga preventive maintenance sa Maasin-Ubay transmission line.
Kini nagpasabot nga ang tanang konsumidor sa elektrisidad sa Bohol nga gi-alagaran sa Bohol Light Company Inc. (BLCI), Bohol Electric Cooperative (BOHECO) I ug II apektado.
Gi dugang usab ni Martinez nga ang 100MVA ug 5MVA transformers apektado usab sa maong tinuig nga preventive maintenance apil na ang 15 MVAR Shunt Reactor ug ang 138kV switch yard equipments.
Kining mga ekipo anaa nahimutang sa Ubay Sub-Station ug Tugas Cable Terminal Station.
Ang maong mga estasyon adunay gitipigan nga high voltage equipment ug line protection relays. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
