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Bohol bids for NWC Reinstatement for Tagbilaran City, Bohol
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 7 (PIA)—The bid to get Bohol back into the list of next wave cities (NWC) for prospectors of information technology’s business process management (IT-BPM) starts anew this week as private and public sectors bring Digital Bohol Summit here October 15 and 14. Set in an auspicious time when an earthquake in Bohol effectively cancelled the supposedly best time for the city and the province to showcase why it is the next best place for a BPM venture in 2013, the ICT summit now would be a chance at redemption for Bohol’s failed dream of showing off its potential as NWC call center hub. “It is our desire that Tagbilaran City maintains its presence in the ICT/BPM radar and become an investment location for the industry,” Governor Edgar Chatto said. The government has identified the IT-BPM as the biggest thing for the Philippines, with the potential for jobs and advancement neatly tucked in it. Organized by the Provincial Government through its Bohol Investment Promotion Center (BIPC) in coordination with Bohol ICT Council, Tagbilaran City and the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Summit brings to Bohol key information communication technology big wigs who would be witnessing the launching of the local ICT BPM development roadmap billed as “Digital Bohol Project.” City Hall through Jeanette Laila Busano said “the summit will introduce and feed a roadmap for “Digital Bohol” — a plan for holistic digital inclusion in Bohol that aims to set the standard for how local leaders can collaborate to harness technology to empower business, government and civil society — the project will start in Tagbilaran... read moreKampanya batok sa ilegal nga droga, pinakadakong nahimo sa 100 days ni Duterte
MANILA, October 7 (PIA)–Gikonsiderar sa Duterte administration ang ilang kampanya batok sa ilegal nga droga ang pinakadakong nahimo ni Presidente Rodrigo Duterte sa una niyang 100 ka adlaw sa pangatungdanan. Matud pa ni Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella, nagbaton og “dramatic and historic” nga progreso sa kampanya diin natala ang kapin sa 700,000 ang nitahan nga mga drug addicts sa nasod. Dugang pa ni Abella, sa giingong unang tulo ka buwan, natumbok ang kalapad ug kalalom sa problema sa ilegal nga droga diin nasayran nga 97 porsiyento sa mga barangay sa tibuok nasod ang infiltrated o nasudlan na niini. Giingong apil sa dakong nakab-ot sa hugot nga programa ni Presidente Duterte mao ang “awareness” o kaamgohan sa publiko aron masayran ang kaaway ug unsaon kini pagsumpo. Base sa pinakaulahing datos sa Philippine National Police (PNP), naa na sa 1,377 drug suspects ang napatay; 732,698 ang nitahan nga mga drug dependents; 22,503 ang nitahan nga mga drug pushers ug kinatibuk-ang 1,634,111 ka panimalay na ang nabisita kalabot sa pagpatuman sa Oplan Tokhang. Gawas niini, gihinganlan usab ni Presidente Duterte ang mga nalambigit nga polis ug mga opisyal sa gobyerno sa operasyon ug pagpanalipod sa operasyon sa ilegal nga droga. Sa pagkakaron, nagpadayon pa ang pagdungog sa House Justice Committee kalabot sa Bilibid illegal drugs trade diin niatubang isip testigo ang pipila ka convicted drug lords ug mga kriminal nga naglambigit kang kanhi Department of Justice (DOJ) Kalihim ug karon Senador Leila De Lima.... read more
DTI ADOPTS INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ON ANTI-BRIBERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
The Department of Trade and Industry- Bureau of Philippine Standards (DTI-BPS) adopted as Philippine National Standard (PNS) the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 37001:2016 Anti-bribery management systems – Requirements with guidance for use. This PNS is applicable only to bribery and specifies requirements and provides guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining, reviewing and improving an antibribery management system This document addresses bribery in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors; bribery by the organization; bribery by the organization’s personnel acting on the organization’s behalf or for its benefit; bribery of the organization’s business associates acting on the organization’s behalf or for its benefit; bribery of the organization; bribery of the organization’s personnel in relation to the organization’s activities; bribery of the organization’s business associates in relation to the organization’s activities; and, direct and indirect bribery. The standard sets out requirements and provides guidance for a management system designed to help an organization to prevent, detect, and respond to bribery and comply with anti-bribery laws and voluntary commitments applicable to its activities. The DTI-BPS is the National Standards Body of the Philippines. It is the Philippines’ member to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). A copy of the standard may be availed for a minimal fee from the Standards Data Centre at 751.4736/507.7307 and bps@dti.gov.ph. For more information on the services of the DTI, log-on...No Results Found
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Mayors Ask Amendment in 3 Towns’ Quarry Ban
TOWN mayors of Carmen, Batuan and Sagbayan ask Capitol to look into an executive order implementing a total quarry ban in their towns and possibly rescind or amend it so they could pursue development work using local natural resources. Unlike some other towns in Bohol, these 3 towns host the famed Chocolate Hills and lost their privileges to enjoy gratuitous quarry permits from government. This, most perceived disadvantageous to their cash deprived local governments wanting to do road network maintenance projects. Taking the cudgels for other towns, Carmen Mayor Manuel Molina has asked the Capitol, through its newly formed Task Force Kabukiran and the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) led by Jagna Mayor Exuperio Lloren to intercede and exempt their towns from the ban issued by Governor Erico Aumentado. Governor Aumentado in 2007 issued a quarry ban within the area designated as the Chocolate Hills National Geological Monument in a bid to stop activities that would result to the defacement of the national landmark. However, Molina argued that the quarry site that they intend to source out materials from lie in barangay Villafuerte; and not a Chocolate Hill is noted nearby. He added the source is an existing quarry site operated by a private company. The quarry, according to him, temporarily stopped operating due to the Capitol executive order. If the Capitol accedes, he said the town does not need to look farther to buy for its materials source. In protecting Bohol’s amazing hills, Senate Bill 534 of the Chocolate Hills Protection Act of 1997 specifically protects the hills located in 32 barangays in Carmen and Sagbayan,...City Vice Mayor questioned approved funds in his absence
An unexpected tension over ruled last week’s Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) session after Vice Mayor Jose Veloso questioned five items approved by the law makers in his absence. Without the Vice Mayor, supposed Chair of the SP, the session date was changed. More so, made Veloso felt by-passed by his comrades in the Sangguniang Panlungsod. During the Vice Mayor’s tour in Australia, a supplemental budget of P15.2 M, payment of P200,000 for consultants services, donations amounting P600,000, maintenance and operating expenses of P3M, land purchase of P7M and intelligence fund P1.5M. were approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Veloso questioned the approval of the P7 million for land acquisition. He said the fund allocation is not included in the annual investment plan of the city. According to the Vice Mayor, any request of funding should be discussed through argument before its passage for approval. Veloso added that the approval of the five items was hastily decided and was not referred to the committee on appropriations...Congress filed a Bill to legalize Habal-habal operation
A Bill at the House of Representatives 3726 grants local government units to regulate and control the use of motorcycles for hire known as habal-habal. The Bill seeks to devolve the regulatory and franchising powers over its operation to the cities and municipalities. The mandate of the said National law shall be enacted after the House of Representative passes the bill on the third and final reading. The measure is a substitute Bill filed, respectively, by Rep. Edgar Chatta, Ramon Durano 5th dist.of Cebu and Antonio Cuenco, 2nd dist of Cebu. The Congressman of the first district of the province said that the regulation of habal-habal will augment the revenues of LGUs through franchise fee collections, business permits and other regulatory fees....“We can’t sell below buying price” – seller
LOWERING the price of commercial rice is beyond the small stall owners who source out their stocks at already high prices. This also sums up the reactions from local market stall owners in Tagbilaran City’s main market who still continue to sell commercial panda and pearl rice at P38-39 and P40-43, while their bukid rice still sells between P37-38. This is despite the fact that commercial rice in Metro Manila has gone down to P35 due to the continued government intervention such as flooding the markets with cheap rice and going tough on hoarders and scrupulous businessmen. “We can not go lower because we will already lose,” a stall owner who refused to be identified shared. “As much as we wish we could do it to compete with the P25 NFA rice, we also have to consider getting our money back,” she stressed in Cebuano. Her stall sits at close proximity to a Tindahan Natin outlet that sells the NFA rice at P25 a kilo twice a week. “We buy our stocks at already a high price and so we can not just absorb the losses because we also wish to earn a living here,” she explained. Admitting that she has noted the price of commercial rice go down from P40 two weeks ago to P38 now, she added that is the lowest they can offer to the consumers. That time, ‘bukid” rice sells at P1900 per bag, now it has gone down to P1700, she admits, referring to the traders price two weeks ago. She also speculated that the price may have been brought down by the cheaper...Senior citizens want out of country’s problems
HATING to be perceived social burdens, the country senior citizens are mapping for a “last hurrah.” And if their blueprint snowballs, they can kiss goodbye their tiresome complaints on denied privileges. “We’re eyeing P210 M in annual funds we can use to buy eyeglasses, hearing aids, crutches, wheel chairs and dialysis machines for senior citizens. This should unburden local governments,” Capt. Antonio Oppus said during a press conference at the Miravilla recently. Oppus, a Baclayanon former manager of the Mactan International Airport Authority came home to Bohol to retire, only to find out that the dire situation confronting the country’s aging citizens. Meeting the press here in Bohol Thursday, July 10 after the National anti Poverty Commission (NAPC) Senior Citizen’s sector held their the country’s sectoral council meeting, Oppus, who admitted he is not even a member of the Federation of Senior Citizens of the Philippines (FSCAP) added the move should take issue of senior citizens from the government’s list of worries. The catch in the Oppus plan however is for the country’s five million senior citizens to rally behind the sectoral party enough to propel three representatives who could get at least P70M each in pork barrel. “We are launching in Bohol Kapulongan sa mga Katigulangan Pilipino (KKP) or the Senior Citizen’s Party, Philippines (SC-P) as our first step in availing of the P210 annual funding to serve our needs,” Engr. Felix Abella, Visayas FSCAP President said. The move should be able to solve the nagging issue of being denied the mandatory 20% discounts on medicines, slowly empower the aging citizens to still be productive, put up enough...National News
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