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Bohol joint councils approve adoption of CB drug rehab
TAGBILARAN CITY, February 4, (PIA)—Joint Councils of Bohol Peace and Order (PPOC) and Anti-Drug Abuse (PADAC) approved a resolution en masse, adopting a community based drug rehabilitation program suited for drug users with light to moderate affectation. At a joint meeting held inside the Conference Hall of the Governor’s Mansion January 31, both councils headed by Governor Edgar Chatto formalized the adoption of the Community Based Drug Rehabilitation Without Walls (CBDRWW). By the approval, the councils also green lighted the adoption of the program to all towns as the official drug rehab program for all drug users who opt to undergo the process. CBDRWW is an adoption with minor modifications, of the Talibon Drug Rehabilitation Program without Walls, Argao Drug Rehab center program and best practices, explained the governor. Then episcopal vicar of Talibon Diocese and among the program implementers since September 2016, now Tagbilaran Bishop Alberto Uy said the program “works on poverty, demands no experts because we have no psychologists, psychiatrists and counselors.” As the name suggests, the program uses no confinement in a medical or correctional facility for treatment, and rather looks on to the physical, emotional, psychological, economic and spiritual needs of the drug victims end encourages them to stop alcohol, smoking, gambling and most especially the use of illegal drugs, bishop Uy explained. Envisioned and attuned to the philosophy of human dignity and value, the program delves on the personality of an individual, and his relation to the community in as much as reintegration to the mainstream would demand that the victim needs all the help to work, pray and play along... read morePagtutok sa community based drug rehab program, gi mando
TAGBILARAN CITY, February 1 (PIA)–Gilagdaan ganinang buntag ni Gob. Edgar Chatto ang usa ka memorandum alang sa mga mayor ug kapitan sa barangay ning lalawigan sa Bohol nga nagmando sa pagtutok sa Community Based Drug Rehabilitation pinaagi sa pagpalig-on sa mga municipal center alang sa Drug Education ug Counseling ug ang Rehabilitation and Treatment Without Walls aron pagseguro nga luwas ug drug free ang Bohol. Kini, bisan pa sa pagpahunong sa Oplan Tokhang ug Project Double Barrel sa Philippine National Police (PNP) apan magpadayon gihapon ang pakigbugno batok sa ilegal nga droga sa lalawigan sa Bohol. Kalabot niini, gi-presentar ni Chatto kang Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Kalihim Ismael Sueno ganinang buntag ang nag-unang inisyatiba sa Bohol sa kalinaw ug kahusay, apil na ang anti-illegal drug war pinaagi sa Provincial Peace and Order Council, emergency response ug management pinaagi sa TaRSIER117, ang Countryside Development Program Purok Power Movement, ang Center for Drug Education and Counseling, ug ang Community Based Drug Rehabilitation Program. Si Sueno ania sa Bohol karong adlawa isip pinasiduggang dinapit sa Provincial Congress sa Liga ng mga Barangay ng Pilipinas-Bohol Chapter nga gipangunahan ni Provincial Board Member Romulo Cepedoza. Samtang karong adlawa usab, labaw sa 1,000 ka kapitan sa baragay ug 48 ka mayor ning lalawigan sa Bohol ang nagtapok ug pormal nga gi-selyohan ang ilang drug rehabilitation program. Dinhi, gi-presentar sa mga lokal nga opisyal sa Bohol kang Sueno ang Community Based Drug Rehabilitation Program Without Walls diin ang desinyo sa padetalye niini opisyal nga gi-aprobahan kagahapon atol sa joint meeting sa Provincial Peace and Order Council... read more
Auza.Net Releases PRCPassers.com Beta
Auza.Net has released another free online service called PRCPassers.com (http://www.prcpassers.com), a fast search engine for names of board examinees who passed the PRC exams. It is still in its beta stage which means there are still improvements being done but the site is already usable by the general public. The service is unique compared to all other websites that publish lists of board exam passers because it is a real search engine where you simply type in the last, first or middle name or any combination of these and the results are shown immediately. The user is no longer required to click several links before finding the list of names which can take quite some time. PRCPassers.com keeps an index of the board exam passers allowing for a very fast search, while providing the user a link to the official results on the PRC website so the results can be verified. In contrast, the other websites that publish the board exam results simply copy the data and republish them. The search engine is a customized WordPress plugin that includes a very fast search algorithm developed specifically for this type of index. It also performs the indexing everytime a new list of board exam passers are published by the PRC. Even though the plugin performs complicated functions, the development period was relatively short, a total of 5 working days only. This is because the developer only had to develop the functions that are specific to the search engine. All other functions like authentication and database abstraction are already handled by WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org), a very popular content management system. Click here...Local News/ Bohol Balita
LMP’s relief fund now at P2.4 M, more to come still — Salinas
LEAGUE of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) has collected P2.425 million, a little short of its planned P2.85 million from all towns in Bohol, but league president and Catigbian Mayor Roberto Salinas said they are still accepting donations from towns. Salinas statement was based on the agreement that was adopted by all of the 47 towns here. The agreement was for each town to contribute a little by dipping from its coffers. By now, about 41 towns of Bohol’s 47 have filled the LMP typhoon victims relief bag, part of which, the league has sent to Manila in two packets, attests the Office of the Provincial Treasurer. The first lode, which LMP sent through Governor Erico Aumentado, was addressed to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last October 9. It constituted the P1,695,000 cash donation, certifies Bohol Provincial Treasurer Eustaquio Socorin. The second cash packet was certified to have been sent to DSWD I Malacanang last October 20, the cash donation totaling P730,000. The league through its president initiated a fund raising campaign for the relief of storm victims as Manila and its neighboring areas were still inundated by floodwaters spawned by the succeeding storms Ondoy and Pepeng. Salinas, who was in Manila at the time when storm Ondoy lashed his fury started the move to engage league leaders to support his plan to ask town dads to contribute and help the people of Luzon. “It was informally done and then we at the league agreed to come up with a scheme, which allows towns to put up an amount based on their municipal classifications,” Salinas confessed....Cabinet meeting focuses on disaster preparedness, risk reduction
The Cabinet meeting, presided by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at the Tourism Center, focused on Disaster risk reduction, disaster preparedness, and climate change. The President also ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to come up with a comprehensive plan to clear canals or esteros, river basins, and other waterways. The President also instructed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to further strengthen its campaign against the cutting of trees and slash-and-burn farming or kaingin. (PIA) Click here for full...PGMA awards P4.72-M to 23 coops
Local cooperatives in the povince, have been awarded by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo a total of P4.72 million in agricultural assistance. The recipients were the Bohol Local Development Foundation, Inc. and Bohol Federation of Women Cooperatives with P1.5 million each; Cabilao Loon Multi-Purpose Cooperative with P150,000; and United Angilan Antequera Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Tupas Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Quinapon-an Rural Improvement Club, Balbas Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Anislagan Cabog Multi-Purpose Cooperative and Tontunan Multi-Purpose Cooperative with P100,000 each. The Cayacay Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Mocpoc Loon Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Quinogitan Loboc Multi-Purpose Cooperative and Camputud Multi-Purpose Cooperative also received P100,000 each. The Cambasag Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Taming Loom Weavers Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Palo Loay Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Cabilao Romblon Weavers Network, Bugho Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Bahaybahay Multi-Purpose Cooperative, and Imelda Duero Abaca Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative each received P50,000 each while the New Canguha Calape Multi-Purpose Cooperative got P20,000. (PIA) Click here for full...PGMA’s 3rd Bohol visit set Tuesday
ALL mechanisms grind as preparations gear up for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s third visit to Bohol in 2009 this Tuesday. On that day, the President is set to preside over a Cabinet meeting in Loboc, said Governor Erico Aumentado’s former chief of staff Junin Caberte. Caberte presided over the first coordination meeting at the Capitol, Friday. Key officials doing the usual legwork for presidential visits attended the meeting to discuss the usual visit activities for security and logistics. “Schedules are still loose, but by Sunday, we can have a clearer picture of the President’s schedule after her advance party shall have met with the local officials handling the visit details,” Caberte assured. For reasons of security of the President and her Cabinet members, the governor’s aide refused to divulge the possible venues of the meeting. However, while there, Loboc local officials led by Mayor Leon Calipusan also bared that they would also want the president to inaugurate the P4.7 M Loboc Tourism Complex Docking Port Extension in Barangay Villaflor Sources close to the mayor said the port extension is another commitment of the present administration for Loboc development, through the Department of Agriculture. The port extension also forms part of the P 42 Million DA projects implemented under the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority. Separate sources have also speculated that the President would breeze through and greet the gathering of the Liga ng Mga Barangay Bohol Chapter meeting at the nearby Joventino A. Digal Gymnasium at the Poblacion of Loboc town. The Office of Board Member Concepcion Lim, Liga Bohol Chapter President has confirmed that they have invited the President on...Army engineers build 24 schools for Bohol in ‘09
IN places where government projects to be implemented find no takers, call on the 53rd Army Engineers. Fulfilling its mandates in implementing peace and development projects hand in hand with its counterparts active internal security operations, the Bohol based 53rd Engineer Battalion of the Philippine Army has erected 24-two classroom school buildings this year as they waged another kind of war, not with fire-arms. Surprising many communities with their construction skills, uniformed men under the unit get to far-flung communities brandishing tools of infrastructure development and not fire-arms. “When we are tasked with the mission of implementing a project that no private contractor is willing to risk, we put all our resources and our men’s lives on the line, all for the cause of peace and development,” said LtCol. Ramon Ruiz, commander of the Cabulijan Tubigon based engineering support battalion. He claims his army unit undertakes basic infrastructure works as construction of school buildings, health centers, farm to market roads, bridges, electrification projects, water system facilities and other utilities in support of the government’s development program, but does not compete with the private contractors. “Projects, which private contractors find unattractive could not just be left unimplemented,” he stressed. Projects that are out in far-flung areas often inaccessible to transport or which expose many private contractor’s assets to risk drop into the army engineers’ laps. Projects in island barangays or way-off the main road entail double handling, and the overhead costs discourage contractors, making them back off, explains the army engineer commander at the Kapihan sa PIA, Thursday. Moreover, projects that the army implements often save funds for the government...National News
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