by admin | Feb 28, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
Auza.Net will hold its on-the-job training program starting April 2015 for students of IT related courses who are required to undergo OJT. Interested students may now send their application letters, resume and transcript of records for selection. Deadline of submission is on March 18, 2015.
The company will hold interviews and may conduct exams or computer skills demonstrations in the selection process.
The Summer 2015 OJT program will focus on data processing and data entry type of work. Some participants may be selected for software development work or website development. This year’s OJT program will be free of charge. Allowance may be provided to trainees who achieve targets.
Please send applications to info@auza.net. Please attach your transcript of records or TOR. Only applications with complete information and TOR will be accepted.
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Effective Development Communications Unit
Bohol enters into a new collaboration with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Asian Development Bank, and the Government of Canada for JobStart Philippines.
Gov. Edgar Chatto is set to sign the agreement for the partnership with DOLE, ADB and the Canadian Government on March 4 at the HEAT IT Bohol caravan in Bilar.
A first in the country for a province, JobStartPH, a partnership initiative seeks to assist young Filipinos who wish to join the labor force by providing opportunities to not only improve their technical skills but also develop life skills required to succeed in the workplace.
JobStartPH also aims to strengthen guidance services, labor market information, and job search assistance for employment officers.
The program, which will be implemented through the Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO) under the Office of the Governor, will accommodate out of school youth aged 18-24 who have finished high school but are not unemployed and have had a year or less work experience.
BEPO will facilitate the pre-qualification and registration of Boholano youth and select beneficiaries, which job-readiness will be assessed and provided life skills training, career guidance, and labor market information.
BEPO will then match the trained youth to available internships and provide referrals, after which the youth will train under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to acquire the necessary skills for the internship with the employers.
Chatto in his State of the Province Address (SOPA), had expressed enthusiasm to embark on the new partnership project which will not only strengthen BEPO employment capabilities but more importantly cater to the needs of the out of school youth (OSY) in the province.
The governor welcomed the initiative as Bohol launched last year the nationwide Abot-Alam program, also an inter-agency convergence effort to locate OSYs and enroll them in program interventions in education, entrepreneurship, and employment.
“JobStartPH is a very welcome intervention for a portion of the out of school youth that we have accounted for and mapped out under the Abot Alam program”, he said.
JobStartPH has only been piloted in the four institutionalized Public Employment Service Offices in Quezon City, San Fernando in Pampanga, Taguig City, and General Trias in Cavite. (Leah/EDCOM)
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Effective Development Communications Unit
Bohol will host the 15th International Nannoplankton Association Conference on March 7-12, 2015 in Panglao.
A first in the Philippines, the international conference gathers scientists from all over the world who have interest in living or fossil calcerous nannoplankton.
The Nannoworks Laboratory of the National Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of the Philippines Diliman won the bid to host the biennial conference over other groups from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Germany.
This is only the second time that the conference will be held in Asia, after Japan, since it began in 1985.
Geology Professor Alyssa Peleo-Alampay and co-organizer Associate Professor Allan Gil Fernando, both proud and honored to be hosting the event said the conference is a great opportunity not just for the institute but also for the Philippine scientific community to prove that the country is at par with other developed countries in this scientific field.
University of the Philippines graduate and recently honored among 50 distinguished outstanding alumni of the UP School of Economics, Gov. Edgar Chatto is set to welcome the international experts at the opening of the international conference.
The international fossil conference is seen as a testament to the growing positive reputation of Filipino scientists and an important proof of the Philippine scientists’ abilities to engage in scientific advancements in the world.
Calcareous nannoplankton are single-celled plantlike organisms (algal protists) living in the world’s oceans since the Triassic period (more than 200 million years ago).
The shell remains (called coccoliths) of these organisms can only be studied under a light microscope with at least 1000 times magnification. The specimens can also be viewed in greater detail with a special type of microscope called the scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Academic and industry scientists will present through oral and poster presentations their respective researches about these organisms during the conference.
The past two conferences were held in Yamagata in Japan in 2010, and then in Reston in Virgina, US in 2013.
(Leah/EDCOM)
by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, February 24 (PIA) —The Panglao Airport or officially the New Bohol Airport Project in Panglao (NBAP) has not officially commenced its civil works, but the government has rolled out a bid for its operation and maintenance.
As early as December of 2014, when the Bidding and Awards Committee Chairman and Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Undersecretary Jose Perpetuo Lotilla signed the Notice of Award to the winning bidder of the P7.1 billion Panglao airport, DOTC has rolled out some P116.2 billion bundled contracts for 6 airports, including Panglao.
The Philippine Star, a national daily broadsheet published last December 15, 2014 the bundled contract for a concessionaire to develop, operate and maintain (O and M) 6 provincial airports, for 30 years.
O and M or Panglao airport runs at P4.57 billion, according to DOTC.
“The DOTC said the 30-year concession contract would be awarded through a competitive bidding following the rules and procedures prescribed under the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law, the published article stated.
Meanwhile, in his most recent State of the Province Address (SOPA) Bohol Governor Edgar Chatto earned a welcoming applause when he reported: So it’s definitely “All Systems Go” for the New Bohol Airport!
This too as he told Boholanos that the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-funded New Bohol Airport Construction and Sustainable Environment Protection Project (NBACSEPP) is finally free to proceed without impediment!
Per the latest updates from JICA, the Notice of Award has been signed by the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) BAC Chairman Usec. Lotilla, and promptly air-mailed to the winning bidder, he said.
After this, and the release of the scheduled Advance Payment by JICA, we hope that by March 2015, the Notice to Proceed will be signed by DOTC Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya, Chatto updated Boholanos on the status of the ambitious airport that took about four governor and four presidents to realize.
Construction is expected to officially commence in April 2015, he said to another applause from the avid crowd gathered at the Bohol Cultural Center, February 20.
For those doubting Thomases who still refused to believe unless they see substantial developments, the governor added, “even before this contractual commencement, the winning bidder should have started temporary works, such as the construction of Employer’s, Engineer’s and Contractor’s offices, bunkhouses, erection of concrete and asphalt batching plants, starting next month.
Then, he showed through an electronic wall, pictures of the groundwork and clearing operations being undertaken at the project site.
He also showed the already-completed New Bohol Airport Resettlement Project in Tawala, Panglao, which was built for relocation of airport construction affected families.
He said the new houses were already turned over to the homeowners association last November 2014, and homeowners have subsequently formed an association, now registered with the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB). (RAC/PIABohol)
by admin | Feb 21, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
The Bohol Information and Communications Technology Council General Assembly originally scheduled for February 21, 2015 has been rescheduled to March 4, 2015. The organizers said that a significant number of participants wish to attend the funeral of the late Loreto “Loy” Palapos on the original schedule.
Palapos was an active civil servant and was the President of the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry when he passed away last week. BCCI is represented in the Bohol ICT Council.
The Bohol ICT Council are inviting interested parties to join the general assembly during which an election of the board of trustees will be conducted. From the board of trustees, the new set of officers will be elected by the trustees.
by admin | Feb 15, 2015 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS (Unit)
PROVINCE OF BOHOL
INVESTORS HOVER, READY TO SWARM BOHOL
THE CHATTO-LIM ADMINISTRATION’S indomitable reputation in making good things happen in Bohol not only has carved a name for itself. It has also attracted the attention of world-class investors who are always on the lookout, not only for profitable ventures, but also, for sound investments.
The past week alone witnessed the influx of very interested proponents for the Bohol Island Power Development Plan (BIPDP) where at the very least, twelve power companies each presented their proposals and talked big on how they could solve Bohol’s power problem.
However, providing “adequate” power supply for the province only spurred more questions in the minds of the Boholanos for indeed, how adequate is “adequate?”
With the people’s first-hand and not-so-pleasant experience in 2013 where the whole island was put under total darkness for two-and-a-half days after Typhoon Yolanda ravaged Leyte, Boholanos have learned their lesson the hard way.
Gov. Edgar M. Chatto and Vice-Gov. Concepcion Lim vowed to never again let the people go through a similar experience and henceforth did everything they could to hasten the province’s independent power source.
“If we want to be able to succeed and go forward, then, we should strive hard to possess that which we do not have,” the governor was quoted as saying.
Last Tuesday, the Provincial Government hosted a Power Investment Forum spearheaded by the governor as the Chairman of the Bohol Energy Development Advisory Group or BEDAG.
The BEDAG is a multi-sectoral group composed of various representatives from the local government unit (LGU), private sector, academia, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, (NGCP), and the three local Distribution Utilities (DUs) BOHECO I, BOHECO II and the Bohol Light Company, Inc. (BLCI).
It is an institutional mechanism for planning, implementing, and monitoring of Bohol’s power development initiatives and is responsible for preparing the BIPDP.
The twelve proponents who were each given ten minutes to present their proposals were: Visayas Wind Energy Corporation, Global Business Power Corporation, CENERTFC Philippines, Inc., SUN Electric Philippines, Siquijor Power Corporation (SIPCOR), WestMin Energy and Development Company, Inc. JETPRO Technology, Inc., FREY-FIL Corporation, Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), SPC Power Corporation, SPC Island Power Corporation, Sta. Clara International Corporation, and Visayan Electric Company.
What struck as significant during the forum was the fact that several, if not all, of those who did the presentations were the very top executives of the proponent companies.
Majority of the proposals favorably endorsed coal as their power source due to its eco-friendliness, high incidence of efficiency and easy management.
Other proposed power sources though included biogas, waste heat recovery, biomass, mini-hydro and uranium.
One of the presentations which caught the eye of BEDAG due to its uniqueness and versatility was the use of the different kinds of wind turbines and its various applications.
The City of Tagbilaran is recognized as an emerging destination in the category of next wave cities and the Province of Bohol is now in its last mile of preparation as a world-class tourist destination.
Of all the provinces in the country, only Bohol has a business one-stop shop office called BOSS under the Bohol Investment Promotion Center (BIPC) which is propelled by the most able hand of Maria Fe Dominise, who unceasingly revises new ways to attract more investors.
Gov. Chatto gladly recognizes the effort and technical assistance that USAID-COMPETE is doing in helping the Provincial Government in its Visit Bohol 2015 tourism campaign and how it has opened wide our doors to more investment opportunities.
He says that “everything must be at par with each other and each phase of development properly in sync with everything else for if we want to improve Bohol’s reputation, which even now, is being currently considered a choice business location, then, we should push each other more to achieve what we want and in order to arrive at our most-coveted destination.”
Also present during the forum were Board Members Cesar Tomas Lopez, Abeleon Damalerio, Tomas Abapo, Elpidio Jala and Madelone Rengel.
The proposals presented would undergo further scrutiny under the BEDAG and also most possibly, will be duly presented at the upcoming Provincial Development Council (PDC) meeting. (JLV/PGBh/EDCom)
