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Early registration sa mga pampublikong tunghaan, gisugdan na
MANILA, January 30 (PIA)–Gisugdan na niadtong Sabado, Enero 28 ang early registration program sa Department of Education (DepEd) alang sa tanang bata nga motungha sa kinder, grade 1 hangtud grade 10 sa mga pampublikong tunghaan sa nasod sa umaabot school year 2017-2018. Matud pa ni DepEd Kalihim Leonor Briones, tumong sa early registration nga matumbok og sayo ang posibleng problema nga atubangon sa mga opisyal sa tunghaan, mga ginikanan ug mga batang motungha sa dili pa moabot ang regular nga enrollment sa Hunyo. Gipasalig sa DepEd nga hatagan nila dayon og pagtagad ug solusyon ang unsa mang problema nga motumaw sa early registration. Matud pa ni Briones nga target nila sa sayong pagparehistro ang mga batang may edad 5 ka tuig nga mosulod sa kindergarten ug ang mga motungtong sa grade 1 hangtud grade 10. Modagan ang early registration hangtud Pebrero 24, ning kasamtangang tuig. Samtang gimanduan ni Briones ang mga school division, superintendent ug principal sa tibuok nasod sa pagpahigayon og mga aktibidad aron mapahibaw sa publiko ang kalabot sa early registration sama sa pagpahigayon og house-to-house campaigns ug pakigtinabangay sa mga opisyal sa barangay. Ang mga bata nga motungtong na sa lima ka tuig sa Hunyo 1 dawaton na sa kindergarten ug ang naka-kumpleto na sa kindergarten dawaton na usab sa Grade 1.... read moreBI, nipasidaan batok sa online solicitations
MANILA, January 30 (PIA)–Nipasidaan ang Bureau of Immigration (BI) sa publiko kalabot sa mga online solicitations pinaagi sa text, e-mails o social media diin gigamit ang mga pangalan sa mga opisyal sa ahensiya aron makapangayo og salapi. “The public is reminded to be cautious and exercise suspicious alertness in receiving calls and SMS from unknown persons,” matud pa sa pahayag sa BI. Giingong nadiskubre sa BI nga adunay mga daotang tawo nga malisyosong nigamit sa pangalan sa mga opisyal sa BI sa ilang ilegal nga aktibidad ug nangayo og solicitation alang sa usa ka ‘bogus’ rehabilitation program ug fund raising activities. Matud pa sa BI, mahimong mosumbong ang publiko kun makadawat og mga on-line solicitations sa telepono (02) 465-2400, 524-3769 local 213 ug 226, 0925-710-4250, 0917-573-3871 ug 0908-894-6644. Mahimo usab e-report ang bisan unsang ingon niining insidente sa e-mail sa BI sa binoc_immigration@hotmail.ph, sa BI Facebook account, @officialbureauofimmigration o sa ilang Twitter account, @immigrationPH.... read more
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Anytime soon, we would be reading legal questions about why Vice Governor Dionisio Balite still clings on to his seat despite a suspension order which he and a good number of former provincial government officials have been meted with. For allowing then Governor Erico Aumentado to purchase heavy equipment by greenlighting a letter of credit to a bank, Balite, along with several officials have been given a slap on the wrist and a 3 month work suspension without benefits. Suspended, Balite and the concerned officials had a legal recourse: file a temporary restraining order (TRO) so implementing the order can be held in abeyance enough for the Ombudsman to decide on the propriety of the move to temporarily suspend perceived erring officials. Of course, while others just decided to wait out for the suspension, Balite, through his counsel filed for a TRO, which the courts also granted. Filing the TRO is just a statement that Balite thinks suspension was unjustified. Those who did not file for the temporary reprieve, might think a TRO is useless. So, those who just sat out for the suspension order, shamefully chastised, could also be an admission that they did know they were wrong. But Balite will have none of that. He, who felt there was nothing wrong with allowing the governor to get a letter of credit, questioned and got a temporary reprieve. From the courts, and from the people whose doubts have been expunged for Balite’s fighting for justice. Seemingly, by some kind of reckoning, Balite’s TRO may have expired already and the Ombudsman still has to blow the whistle and...Auza.Net Completes Fiber Optic Network Upgrade
Auza.Net completed its upstream network upgrade on February 19, 2010 when its 32MB capacity fiber optic link to the Internet was activated. Now with generous capacity available, Auza.Net will be able to provide to more clients its Dedicated Internet access service. Coupled with its carrier grade wireless mesh network, the company can deploy Internet service in a large area covering Tagbilaran, Panglao, Dauis, Baclayon and parts of Albur. In the next few months, the company will proceed with implementation of additional network optimizations to improve service among its existing clients. These will allow Auza.Net to serve additional shared bandwidth clients while improving overall network performance. Dedicated Internet service is required for real time applications like VOIP and video that requires high quality reception that is suited for call centers and other business applications. It is also ideal for large user environments with multiple users like universities and government offices. Applications that need to run in a virtual private network or VPN is also supported by Auza.Net because it can provide static public IP addresses that these applications need. Shared service allows low cost Internet access by spreading the cost of the service across multiple clients who will share the bandwidth available. However, during peak hours, this service may be congested and would significantly degrade VOIP and video applications. For ordinary Internet access use though, shared service is sufficient and is affordable. Applications that cannot tolerate congestion would require the Dedicated service. Contact Auza.Net at 501-7931 or 501-8459 or email us at info@auza.net to get more information about its Internet access...Local News/ Bohol Balita
Abatan ni Tamblot musicale highlights fiesta novenario
THE tale of Tamblot, the pagan high priest of Abatan comes to life in songs through an original musical play set last night, October 24, 2009 at the Antequera Cultural Center. Produced by Centro Boholano (SB) for the Local Government of Antequera, the musical uses original music by Boholano composers and was also commissioned for the main cultural menu for the Antequera stop of the newly launched Abatan River Community Life Tours, Gardy Labad, SB artistic director said. Tamblot, the legendary pagan priest who was the historically referred to as the initiator of the country’s first serious religious revolt against the Spaniards in 1620 was so successful in his initial months of revolution that he dealt so much embarrassment on the Spanish forces. Sidled out from his wide sphere of religious influence after Sapaniards took their residence in Loboc, Tamblot moved out and claimed the civilization of river side Malabago as his seat of power. Officiating over the religious rituals of the community in the upper tributaries of the Abatan, Tamblot was relentlessly pursued. His Spanish foes traced him finally in the far away Malabago where he was again forced to flee to Tupas, on the other side of the riverbank. Doing precision ambushes against the abusive Spaniards, Tamblot’s fame soon caught like wild fire, until he completely engaged communities to an uprising, when Spanish authorities were in Cebu in 1622. Because of such shame he and his men gave to the superior armed Spanish soldiers, his name could seldom be seen in historical records, opines historian Jess Tirol in his writings. Perhaps another victim of the slanted annals...LMP mulls for lesser meets, bi-annual prov’l sports-fest
LEAGUE of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) Bohol mulls to lessen the number of athletic meets and pour more funds into sustainable sports programs instead. Rather than drain the town’s resources in tentative activities that strain teachers and athletic coaches, Dagohoy Mayor Dr. Herminio Relampagos proposed to take go for only two meets in a year. At the recent LMP Meeting held in Bilar last week, Dr. Relampagos was apparently following on the irritant issue of costly athletic meets that do not always produce the best athletes. He cited that even with the meets, what are produced are athletes that are sent [to meets] for compliance and not because they are competent. At the very least, Bohol athletes need to go through town, sub-congressional, congressional and provincial meets before they can represent Bohol to the regional athletic competitions, Relampagos explained. All the hosted meet organizers turn to local government units for funds, which would sometimes be more that other budgets priorities allocated under the Special Educational Fund (SEF) mandatory, he told mayors. He reiterated that by law, sports would only be the fourth priority in the SEF. The SEF is where LGUS get funds to build class rooms, schools, fund repairs of school facilities and pay for the fund the salaries of contractual workers first. On the other hand, Loon Mayor Lloyd Peter Lopez suggested that the provincial meet be done only once in every two years. He explained that in the year when there isn’t a provincial meet, the training of the athletic pool would be done and funds...Salcon buys Naga power plant, power assets now at 222 MW
BOHOL power and water investors company, Salcon Power Corporation (SPC) continues to widen its grasp on major Visayan power assets when it recently acquired the 55-megawatt (MW) Naga Land-Based Gas Turbine (LBGT) Power Plant in Cebu. Earlier, SPC also got the 146.5 MW Panay and the 22 MW Bohol Diesel Power Plant when the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corporation them up for bidding last November. Last 25 March 2009, in simple ceremonies, PSALM turned over the Panay and Bohol diesel power plants to SPC last March 25, 2009 in simple ceremonies after the group paid in full its USD5.86-million (USD5,857,553. 34) offer for the packaged power plants PSALM also put up the Naga power plant for sale recently and SPC negotiated for the power asset, making it the seventh operating power plant, which it successfully sold this year. SPC also won the Rehabilitation, Operation, Maintenance, and Management contract for the 203.8-MW Naga Power Plant Complex in 1994. The sealing of the Naga power plant elevates SPC’s claim to its third power asset in the Visayas, claiming a combined company total power generation of 222MW. SPC matched the PSALM Board reserve price of USD1.008 million (USD1,008,000. 00) for the Cebu-based power plant, after initially offering USD429,488.00 for the gas turbine power facility. With the developments, PSALM is set to issue a Notice of Award to SPC to formally declare the company as the new owner of the Naga LBGT as soon as the accuracy, authenticity, and completeness of the bid documents it had submitted are verified by PSALM’s Privatization Bids and Awards...Hagbuaya high school rises
THE first public school in Catigbian’s Santo Nino parish rises miraculously from rice lands in a nook in Hagbuaya village, this came after local officials led by Mayor Roberto Salinas asked for it from the Department of Education (DepED). The new public secondary school would be the first one to serve constituents in the nine villages within the Baang parish catch-ment. Most of the public schools in this town are established within the Immaculate Mary Parish catch-ment and putting up one public school accessible to the people in Baang excites us, claimed education committee chair and Councilor Zip Lastimosa recently. The plan took a dizzying turn when the DepEd nodded to it, after only three weeks of processing, he said. Mayor Salinas said this might even be the shortest time for a school application to gain its base, one tough gamble they took when they opened first and second year high school classes at the nearby Hagbuaya Elementary School, even while submitting their application papers. He said the town also shouldered the eventual pay for the teachers contracted to manage the classes. With the DepED green-lighting the project, local officials doubled up and successfully sourced out up at least four two-classroom buildings to transform the lot into a veritable school compound as the school year opens next year, Salinas bared. The favorable DepEd action also enthused residents to ride with the momentum: Juan Tagsa and his family allocated a hectare of property and transferred it without cost in favor of the government for the school buildings and compound. The local government dipped half a million from its coffers for...COA, mayors agree pre-audit, govt flaw
BOTH League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) Bohol Chapter and the local Commission on Audit (COA) have to admit the pre-audit requirement is becoming more of a hassle than help, making them victims of another systemic government flaw. Bohol LMP President Roberto Salinas called the requirement for all government transactions to get through pre-audit a huge blow against the government efforts to deliver quick and efficient service. Now implemented as a policy before any government procurement transaction is consummated, the new pre-audit requirement has altered the usual government procurement processing with circuitous paper trails, town liaison officers with COA say. Bohol COA supervising auditor Marcelita Sarmiento, who defended the government through the benefits of the pre-audit law has to concede however that the pre-audit has added so much to their overloaded functions considering the local office is undermanned. She told the mayors that COA Bohol that only 24 auditors are overseeing the cash-books of 47 towns, a city and several government agencies including Capitol. “An auditor has to take about 7 towns, national agencies, special projects…as much as we would like to, it would take us time to do pre-audit,” she explained. She also blamed some town auditors who send in incomplete documents further compounding the procedural delay. It is true that pre-audit takes time, but we are governed by laws, she reiterated over the apparently helplessness the local chief executives showed over the policy. In fact, Salinas called the policy one that molds the impression that mayors are shrugging shoulders on anti-red tape law with the illogical delays in the delivery of services. “We can just imagine...National News
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