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HNU gets free Smart wifi
TAGBILARAN CITY, March 7 (PIA)–The day after President Rodrigo Duterte approved the Philippine national Broadband Plan to effect a faster and more reliable communications in the country, Holy Name University in Bohol also partners with Smart Telecommunications for a wireless fidelity (wifi) internet access for its students. And for that, Smart Communications incorporated allocated 100 megabyte per second (mbps) internet bandwidth to the catholic university, giving students some 30 minutes free internet service daily. Holy Name University President Fr. Francisco Estepa SVD, pointed out that the provision of SmartWifi in the campus is the third among HNU and Smart partnerships. He told the modest crowd gathered at the covered shed beside the campus Bates Building that HNU also got Smart suite. Smart Learning Suite is a facility that combines lesson delivery, assessment, student collaboration and game-based learning software via the Smart Notebook, Smart Lab, Smart Response and Smart Amps. He also said HNU partnered with Smart on Smart Sports. This time, Smart Communications incorporated again partnered with HNU on the SmartWifi in the campus. “Our partnership with Smart has been very beneficial to the school, we do hope that we had mutual benefits with Smart,” Fr. Estepa said. The partnership allows the HNU community to get 30 minutes free wifi access daily, also gets them free infrastructure in cables, access points, 100 MBPS of internet bandwidth, free facility operation and maintenance, while earning a co-branded set service identification (ssid) and leading page, courtesy of Smart. For partnering with Smart, HNU also commits to shoulder costs of power used by the facility, provide adequate space for the infrastructure, allows the... read morePolice adopt parameters for antidrug enforcement teams
TAGBILARAN CITY, March 9 (PIA)—They are back, and while there are stricter parameters for police participation in the government’s anti drug campaign, they come in with a new tenacity. Now reinforced with the 64 newly graduated members of the Police and the military’s Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT), the Philippine National Police again rejoins the fray with a resolve: erase the vile left by rogue cops using the drug raids to mask their corruption. PNP Central Visayas Chief PCSuperintendent Noli Taliño told media that when the police rejoin the anti-drug campaign, those involved would he a team of disciplined and police with a good track service record. This as the police resume their tasks in the anti illegal drugs campaign with the return of Oplan Double Barrel Alpha Reloaded. “Unlike then, not all the police in the force can now join the drive,” General Taliño bared during the recent turn-over of the P4.87 million modern police station in Cortes. Even Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Mike Sueño admitted that when the government started the anti drugs drive, they just accepted those who volunteered, without going for a background investigation. “That is where we allowed the bad elements to contaminate the program, Sueño candidly admitted during a forum with barangay chairmen in Bohol last month. Determined not to fall into that same trap, the PNP organization firms up the national Drug Enforcement Unit, PCSupt Taliño, upon which his office also draws guidance from the DILG during operations. The provinces also form their Provincial Drug Enforcement Team (DET), and so would the towns firm up their Municipal DETs,... read more
ARIS Health gives islanders sea ferry, hospital services
By JUNE S. BLANCO IF MOHAMMED won’t come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed. Rep. Erico Aristotle Aumentado of Bohol’s 2nd District made this resolve when, on his island sorties on inspection trips on the progress of implementation of his infrastructure projects built with counter-parting funds, he noticed several children and pregnant women needing medical attention. This led to the launching on Friday, Sept. 8, of the A.R.I.S. Health or the Active and Responsive Initiative for Sustainable Health. The parents and elders told Aumentado that while they needed treatment, they could not afford the trip to the mainland to seek medical help. This prompted Aumentado to mobilize the sea ambulance procured for the District by his namesake father and immediate congressional predecessor former Governor and Congressman Erico Boyles Aumentado. After ascertaining that the vessel was seaworthy, the solon organized a trip for around 100 mostly children and their mothers from Malingin Island of Bien Unido town to the Don Emilio del Valle Memorial Hospital (DEDVMH) in Ubay town. Aumentado said bringing a team of doctors, medicines and equipment to the island would be personnel and labor intensive. This would also require off-duty staff to render overtime services because on duty staff need to man the hospital at all times. The solon expressed apprehension that the staff who just came off duty and required to render services for the mission will be exhausted when it will be time for their hospital duty again. He said tired staff are prone to human errors that might endanger the lives of hospital patients. The Malingin islanders rode the sea ambulance...Ideaspace Bootcamp for Bohol Set for September
A technopreneurship Bootcamp for Bohol is set for September 2014. Bootcamps have been organized around the Philippines by IdeaSpace. IdeaSpace is being run by IdeaSpace Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization formed by the largest and most diverse group of companies that are leaders in their own industries. These companies include First Pacific, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation, MPIC hospital group, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), Meralco, Smart Communications, Inc (Smart), Digitel, Sun Cellular, SPI Global, ePLDT, Indofood, Philex Mining, Maynilad, MediaQuest, and TV5. The IdeaSpace #Technopreneur Bootcamp series is a vehicle for IdeaSpace to bring down to the community level the advocacy for successful technopreneurship. More than just technology, collaborative participation and innovation in all fronts are the keys to transforming ideas into reality. The main objectives is to : INFORM people about ideaspace and disseminate knowledge on entrepreneurship INSPIRE through thought-provoking talks and success stories IDENTIFY high potential ideas through the lightning pitch sessions and give feedback The aspiration is to bring positive change in the society, thus, our program for innovation and technopreneurship welcome ideas and solutions that can support social development. This activity is a one-day event wherein series of Technology Talk and Pitching Competition will be conducted. In the Pitching Competition, top 10 entries will be given a chance to pitch their IDEAS and will receive consolation prizes. The First place winner will automatically be part of the Top 100 IDEAS entries of the National...Local News/ Bohol Balita
Auza.Net Accepts 16 Students to Summer 2010 OJT Program
Auza.Net completed its selection of students who will undergo its Summer 2010 OJT Program on March 31, 2010. More than 30 applicants were screened and interviewed from Bohol Island State University, Holy Name University and University of Bohol. 16 promising students qualified for the program and will start their OJT program on April 5, 2010. The company’s summer OJT program has been a successful project allowing its trainees to be highly qualified job applicants to various IT companies upon graduation. The students who qualified, in alphabetical order, are: Alinab, Ivy Alombro, Jagad Marxcarlo Balaba, Noel Bonao, Analyn Calope, Mary Lee Corrales, Mark Angelou Damasin, Anna Rea Jumila, Mikejun Naguita, Hanna Harrette Naquila, Lalaine Malayao, Glenn Mark Omalsa, Louraine Pequino, Catherine Raut, Mary Jean Suarez, Sweetenia Tapuroc, Mark...Social mobilization, innovations Pressed strategies against TB
SLOWLY moving out of the World Health Organization tuberculosis (TB) watch-list, the Philippines continues to find innovations to attain the commitment to cut the coughing scare into half this year. With 2010 as the halfway mark for the global plan to stop TB in 2015 as a commitment to the millennium development goals, health authorities during the World TB Day commemoration in Bohol resound the call for partnerships with sectors and forge alliances to accelerate the action. The activity, brought by Provincial Council Against Tuberculosis (ProCAT) “is one of the strategies we make to widen the awareness of the alarming disease that goes beyond being a health concern to economic in nature,” points out Dr. Jude Doblas. TB is hitting men in their most productive ages, agrees Imelda Ochavillo, who coordinates the Social Mobilization on Tuberculosis (SMT) project of the a civil society group present in Bohol. In fact, during the TB Forum at the BQ Atrium March 24, resource persons composed of a doctor, a nurse, a representative from the National TB Control Program, an NGO and a volunteer all agree that social mobilization can beat time in the fight against tubercle bacillus. “There is a rather strong need for social mobilization and relentless seeking for innovations to dent on TB, impresses Ochavillo who directs World Vision Development Foundation’s SMT project, and one of the forum convenors. Despite an upgraded ranking from seventh to ninth in the new World Health Organization TB watchlist, the country remains to be one of the “22 high-burdened” countries in the list, the Department of Health revealed. TB is still the sixth leading...As local campaign rolls… RMG deploys to 3 Bohol towns
WHATEVER is thrown to stir the simmering political brew in Bohol, the police, military and the civil society is ready. On the eve before the campaign for local positions open, PSSupt. Anthony Obenza reported that a company of police reinforcements from then 4th Regional Mobile Group, now the Regional Public Safety Group was on its way to three towns in Bohol to keep peace. Speaking during the Provincial Peace and Order Council Meeting March 25, at the Seglim of the Bohol Tropics, Obenza said a platoon each from the company would be assigned as augmentation force to the integral police units of Getafe, Trinidad and Ubay. The top Camp Dagohoy officer added that he received the deployment instructions just Tuesday but did not elaborate on the specific reasons reasons why such a deployment was requested. Earlier, the Council received reports about the entry of goons in the Second District, and believed to be sent to intimidate voters into supporting individual candidates. On the other hand, speaking for the newly promoted Brig. General Alan Luga, 802nd Brigade in Carmen town, major Edurado Malig-on Jr. said the entire province is now being closely monitored by the military through its different units strategically located all over Bohol. Malig-on, who gave the brigade’s first ever happy report after Bohol was declared insurgency free last February 11 said they are now eyeing the activity of the militant legal fronts called District White Area Committees in their efforts to recover lost ground. After consistent anti-poverty efforts theough convergence of efforts, the armed members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front...38-anyos nga lalaki nakig-date sa uyab gitulis, gikuha pa gyud ang iyang motorsiklo
WALAY suerte ang usa ka lalaki human gitulis sa duha ka armadong suspetsado samtang nakig-date sa iyang uyab sa usa ka beach resort luyo sa Shell depot didto sa Graham Avenue, dakbayan sa Tagbilaran niadtong Sabado sa gabii. Biktima nailhan nga si Margarito Samonte, 38-anyos, minyo, taga-barangay Songculan, Dauis, Bohol. Nahitabo ang insidente mga alas 11:45 sa gabii samtang ang biktima nag-hapi-hapi uban sa iyang uyab nga babaye didto sa Balongbalong Beach dihang giduol sa mga gikatahapan ug gitionan og usa ka mubo nga pusil sa liog ug gikuha ang iyang Alcatel nga cellphone,m usa ka relo de pulso ug gilakip ang yawe sa Ramstar nga motorsiklo. Gigamit ang maong motorsiklo sa mga suspetsado dayong sibat paingon sa City Proper. Gihulagway sa biktima ang mga suspek nga usa niini nagsuot og itom nga sinina samtang ang kauban nakaputi og t-shirt. Gibanabanaang nagtindog ngadto sa 5′ 5″ og nagpangedaron og 30-anyos ug straight ang buhok. (Anduy...Negosyante gitulis sa duha armadong lalaki, biktima nakuhaan og P48,000 ug 2 ka cellphone
NEGOSYANTENG babaye nakuhaan og dakong kantidad sa salapi ug duha ka cellphone human gitulis sa duha ka wala mailhing lalaki didto duol sa iyang pinuy-anan sa Purok 4, barangay Dao, dakbayan sa Tagbilaran niadtong Sabado sa gabii. Biktima nailhan nga si Teresita Escabarte, 31-anyos, minyo , tag-iya og usa ka tindahan sa City Central Market sa barangay Dampas. Nahitabo ang insidente pasado alas 8 sa gabii samtang ang biktima naglakaw paingon sa ilang pinuy-anan kuyog sa iyang bana dihang pag-abot og pipila na lamang ka metros duol sa ilang kalit nga nibutho ang duha ka mga lalaki ug usa kanila nition og usa ka de kalibre nga pistola ngadto kanila dayong deklara og tulis. Matud sa biktima nga dili unta niya ihatag ang iyang salapi apan gipabuthan kini sa suspetsado hinungdan nga iya na lamang gihatag ang salapi nga mokabat ngadto sa P48,000, duka ka cellphone (Nokia 8210 ug 5210) ngadto sa mga tulisan Nibutyag ang biktima nga iyangh gidudahan nga giplano na ang maong insidente gumikan kay nasuhito ang mga gikatahapan sa ilang agianan. Padayon pang gisusi ang insidente sa mga sakop sa theft and robbery section sa City Police Station. (Andy...National News
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