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P81 million worth of drugs In 27-month of operations
In about three years of anti-drugs operation in Bohol, authorities have taken off the streets over six kilos of addictive substances, with an estimated street value of over P81 million, which that could have eaten to the core of the Boholano Boholano society. Bohol Police chief, PSSupt. Angeles Geñorga bared this during the recent joint meeting of the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) and Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council attended by no less than Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) Chairman, Secretary Catalino S. Cuy. During the briefing which Coronel Geñorga gave to update council members on the current situation of the drug clearing operations across the province, he bared the anti-drug operations from July 2016 to October 2018. During the 27 months of operations, local authorities have confiscated 6,418 grams of dangerous substance methamphetamine hydrochloride (meth) or otherwise called shabu with a DDB with a street value of P 81,154,394.65. Along the process, excluding the operation plan ToktokHangyo (Tokhang), authorities have arrested 1,183 persons in 925 conducted operations, and have filed 1,843 cases in the proper courts, Geñorga said. The biggest feat however is that, during that period, Bohol police anti-drug authorities were able to convince 39, 143 drug users to surrender so that appropriate measures for rehabilitation could be recommended and given them. Moreover, the Camp Dagohoy Chief reported to Sec. Cuy and to the members of the joint meeting that in December of last year, Bohol started the Seal of Good Housekeeping Project (SGHP). A component of the drug clearing operations, the SGHP includes putting up of drug free stickers in homes all over the province. Started in... read moreCrimes in Bohol cut in half -PNP
Considering the increase in population, complexity of criminal activity and the previous month’s inflation that made life harder for the country, November of this year in Bohol proved to be a much better year compared to the same month last year. According to Camp Francisco Dagohoy Police Chief Police Senior Superintendent Angeles Geñorga, they noted a 49.15% decrease in crimes in November this year, compared to last year. Citing the police Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System (CIRAS) or the enhanced police e-blotter, PSSuptGeñorga pointed out that the total crime volume (TCV) in November 2017 reached 651 incidents; comprised of 210 index and 441 non index crimes. By November of this year however, TCV based on the CIRAS data only reached 331; or 107 index and 224 non-index crimes, constituting the nearly half of the volume from last year’s data. CIRAS is the enhanced e-Blotter and Geographical Information System (GIS) which contains the initial report and updates of all reported incidents of crimes and is used by the desk officer, crime registrar and analyst in crime reporting and analysis. To prove his point, the Camp Dagohoy chief went on to show to the members of the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) in a joint meeting with the Provincial Anti Drug Abuse Council (PADAC) that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has adopted a system of tracking criminality using data from the local performances on the eight focus crimes. These crimes include theft, physical injuries, robbery, rape, murder, homicide, motor napping and car-napping, PSSuptGeñorga said. Over-all data in theft in Bohol dipped 44.44% this November as it reached 90 incidents... read more
Bohol, Cebu bikers win In BTB‘Epic’ success
Call it familiarity of the trails, or perhaps, relentless training and unmatched endurance, Bohol and Cebu Bikers each took two championship posts in four age group categories in the very successful Bike ta Bai’s Epic Challenge 2018. Boholanos from Paseo de Loon took the Elite and 40-49 age group championships while Cebuano bikers from Salt+Fin and MedTrek Team completed the top four most coveted posts in Bohol’s first distance and endurance mountain bike challenge November 25, 2018. Not really intent on giving up the bragging rights as the kings of epic distance mountain biking, Boholanos showed world-class extreme biking skills to keep Cebu bikers from sweeping the categories and reign supreme in the recently capped Epic Challenge 2018. Boholano elite biker pair of NichoLumay (Batuan) and AdelinoBuligan (Calape) and team mates Jonathan Pagaura and Ernesto Garcia from Paseo de Loon Elite Cycling Team worked as a team never really outdistancing each other to motivate as well as guide the spent racer back into recovery pace to grab the top two positions in the race. Lumay and Buligan, in racing number 09-1 and 09-2, crossed the line in spectacular fashion after taking turns in taking the lead to finish the grueling 85 kilometer route that winds through the killer climbs of five towns, in an aggregate time of 4:11:52.61 seconds averaging a nearly impossible 20.68 kilometers per hour. Not far behind were elite teammates Jonathan Pagaura and Ernesto Garcia who also clocked in at 4:12:17.34 seconds, the second pair to cross the line in Punta Cruz Historical Watchtower complex where the race started off at 7:00 in the morning on...Globe to DICT, BCDA: International cable system capacity more than 16 Tbps
Globe Telecom’s international connectivity capacity provides the leading telecommunications provider with the ability to activate more than 16 Terabits per second (Tbps), sufficient to service the bandwidth demand in the country and satisfy the market’s hunger for faster internet services. Globe seeks to correct the separate public pronouncements made by the DICT Undersecretary Eliseo Rio and BCDA President Vince Dizon who placed the industry’s combined capacity at 2 Tbps. While Globe has enough capacity to provide world class internet service, right-of-way access and unreasonable permit issues hamper the connectivity of many Filipinos. “Our biggest hurdle in delivering consistently good internet (service) is the cumbersome number of permits and right of way issues that prevent us from building the last mile connectivity that would allow world class internet services to be enjoyed by the ordinary household or any person using a mobile phone. We have repeatedly called on the government to help address these issues that are prevalent at the local government level. Now with more people adopting to internet use much faster than the infrastructure can be built, then the problem gets exacerbated,” said Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu. Out of the Globe Telecom’s current bandwidth capacity of more than 16 Tbps, the company’s “lit-up” capacity is less than 3 Tbps as the rest of the bandwidth remain unused owing to insufficient last mile infrastructure. Aside from permitting and right of way issues, other last mile concerns are the non-standardized tower fees across LGUs and real property tax challenges, explained Cu. For years now, Globe has been struggling with permitting challenges at the local government levels. To...Local News/ Bohol Balita
City sets P111 M worth of modern infra for ’17
TAGBILARAN CITY, January 13 (PIA)–Tagbilaran City continues to keep up to the demands of a modern city, and beyond its newly concreted roads with drainage systems, Light Emitting Diode (LED) street lights and traffic lights with counters by allocating some P111 million worth of modern infra for 2017. Sometime within the year, a key element in major big cities in the world would also be installed in Tagbilaran, one that would possibly elevate the city to be among the country’s bustling metropolises from a quaint and laid-back city. City Mayor John Geesnell Yap said in the next months, electronic information boards would be erected in the city’s thoroughfares as a way to put up announcements and emergency broadcasts. The development would also be in tandem with the formal setting up of the City Command Center at the basement of the newly refurbished city hall, he added. Tagbilaran city has pushed for an additional P15 million information Technology development and the installation of citywide surveillance systems through its closed circuit televisions in all major intersections, public schools and barangays. This would be another vital information supply to the Command Center which would then issue relevant information, or any monitored development worth everybody’s time. At a meeting with the City Peace and Order Council, Mayor Yap reminded barangay chairmen to submit a list of priority areas where the city could put the surveillance system in their jurisdiction so that they can map out the infrastructure. All data from these video recording machines would be transmitted to the City Command Center for compilation and immediate reference. City IT head Charles Borja also...Katukoran sa drug rehab center sa Bohol, sugdan ka karong tuig
BOHOL, January 11 (PIA)–Gitakdang sugdan karong tuig ang katukoran sa bag-ong Mega Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center sulod sa Camp Rajah Sikatuna sa Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa lungsod sa Carmen, ning lalawigan. Usa ang lalawigan sa Bohol sa 5 ka lugar sa nasod diin sugdan ang pagtukod sa bag-ong drug rehabilitation center karong tuig. Matud pa ni Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco, ang tinubdan sa pondong mokabat sa P263 milyon nga itukod sa maong drug rehabilitation center maggikan sa China. Gipasalig sa Cabinet secretary nga ang katukoran sa maong rehab center magsugod gayud karong tuig ug matud pa nga iya nang gitahasan si Ding Borja, ang special envoy to China nga usa usab ka Bol-anon sa pag-pinalisar sa kakuhaan sa pondo gikan sa China sulod sa duha ka bulan. Kung mahuman na ang maong drug rehab center, makapasulod kini og 500 ka drug dependents. Ang Bohol usa sa mga lalawigan sa tibuok nasod nga nakatala og pinakadaghang drug surrenderees mao nga kinahanglan gayud dayon ang usa ka drug rehabilitation center dinhi. Sa katapusang ihap niadtong Nobyembre sa niaging tuig, dili moubos sa 25,000 ka drug users ang nitahan sa kapolisan sa Bohol ubos sa “Operation Tokhang.”...P10-M budget alang sa BDJ expansion, aprubado na
BOHOL, January 11 (PIA)–Gi-aprobahan na sa Kagamhanang Probinsiyal sa niaging semana ang P10 milyong budget alang sa katukoran sa dugang selda sa mga bilanggoan sa Bohol District Jail (BDJ) sa Barangay Cabawan ning syudad sa Tagbilaran. Sa pakighinabi sa usa ka lokal nga estasyon sa radyo dinhi, gibutyag ni BDJ Warden Jail Chief Insp. Rusylvi Abueva nga ang maong pondo gamiton sa pagpatukod sa dugang 10 ka selda sa mga bilanggoan. Matud pa ni Abueva, gipaabot nga sugdan sa ikatulong kwarter ning tuig ang maong proyekto samtang naghulat pa ang mga opisyal sa pinal nga approval sa desinyo sa maong pasilidad. Giingong ang pagatukorong dugang selda makapasulod og 30 ngadto sa 40 ka binilanggo. Sa pagkakaron, ang populasyon sa BDJ nga adunay 25 ka selda nikabat na sa 895 ka piniriso apan gi-desinyo lamang kini nga makapasulod og 400 ka binilanggo. Gipaabot nga madugangan pa ang gidaghanon sa mga ma-preso tungod sa nagpadayon pa karong kampanya sa gobyerno batok sa ilegal nga droga....LTO-Tagbilaran, nang-release na sa mga backlog nga driver’s license card
TAGBILARAN CITY, January 10 (PIA)–Gipahibalo sa buhatan sa Land Transportation Office (LTO) Tagbilaran nga nang-release na sila karon sa mga driver’s license card nga na-backlog gikan Agosto 2015 taman Oktubre 2016. Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa LTO-Tagbilaran nga si Florencio “Aloy” Balazuela, kinahanglan lamang moduso sa ilang photocopy sa opisyal nga resibo kun OR nga may nakasulat nga cellphone number sa luyo niini. Apan alang sa mga lisensiyang gi-isyu o gi-renew gikan Nobyembre 2016 pataas, i-release kini sa LTO sa ikaduhang kwarter sa 2017. Alang sa dugang kasayoran, mahimong motawag sa buhatan sa LTO-Tagbilaran sa telepono (038) 501 7781....Red tide alert sa 9 ka kabaybayonan sa Visayas, subling gipagawas sa BFAR; Tagbilaran ug Dauis, nalakip gihapon
MANILA, January 4 (PIA)–Subling nagpagawas og shellfish ban sa 9 ka kabaybayonan ang Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) sa Visayas human mag-positibo sa red tide toxins ang mga gisusing sample nga mga shellfish. Apil sa mga apektado sa red tide ang mga baybayon sa Biliran, Calubian, Leyte, Gigantes Islands sa Iloilo; Carigara Bay sa Leyte; Cambatutay Bay ug Daram Island sa Western Samar; ug Dauis ug Tagbilaran City sa Bohol. Giseguro ni BFAR Director Eduardo Gongona nga padayon ang ilang monitoring sa mga apektadong lugar aron malikayang makapalit ug makakaon ang mga residente sa mga shellfish nga apektado sa red tide. Subling nanawagan ang BFAR sa mga residente sa mga apektadong lugar nga likayan una ang pagpanguha, pagpamaligya, pagpamalit ug pagkaon sa tanang matang sa shellfish sama sa tahong, talaba ug tulya....National News
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