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POEA Admin Hans Leo Cacdac, bag-ong OWWA Administrator
MANILA, October 4 (PIA)–Gitudlo isip bag-ong administrator sa Overseas Workers Welfare Administrator (OWWA) si Hans Leo Cacdac. Hulipan ni Cacdac si kanhi OWWA administrator Rebecca Calzado nga mabalhin usab sa Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). Ang pagtudlo kang Cacdac isip bag-ong OWWA administrator gi-anunsyo ni Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Kalihim Silvestre Bello III sa gipatawag nga press conference kalabot sa accomplishment reports sa buhatan kalabot sa nagkaduol nga unang 100 ka adlaw sa Duterte Administration. Si Cacdac mi-alagad isip POEA administrator sukad pa niadtong 2012 sa panahon ni kanhi Presidente Benigno Aquino III. Samtang hulipan si Cacdac isip POEA administrator ni Atty. Claro Arellano nga kasamtangang prosecutor general sa Department of Justice (DOJ).... read moreEkstensiyon sa voter’s registration, gi-pugngan una sa Comelec
MANILA, October 3 (PIA)–Gipugngan una sa Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang planong pag-abli og balik sa voter’s registration karong adlawa, Oktubre 3, alang sa 2017 Barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa Comelec nga si Atty. James ¬Jimenez, kini tungod kay wala pa padayong mapalabang ang balaodnong mag-oktaba sa 2016 Barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. “We can only resume registration after the law postponing the Barangay and SK elections have been passed,” matud pa ni Jimenez. Gipaabot usab ni Jimenez nga makapagawas na sila og opisyal nga resolusyon sa pagpabalik sa voter’s registration sulod sa usa hangtud sa duha ka semana. Kahinomdoman nga gipahayag sa Comelec nga plano nilang ipadayon ang voter’s registration karong adlawa, Oktubre 3 nga molanat hangtud sa Abril 29, 2017. Ang bag-ong voter’s¬ registration ipahigayon sa Comelec agi og pagsunod sa Republic Act 8189 o ang Voter’s Registration Act of 1996. Kini human nga napalabang sa ubos balay balaoranan ug taas nga kapolungan sa Kongreso ang balaodnong nag-oktaba sa 2016 Barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan Elections nga gitakda untang ipahigayon sa Oktubre 31 ning tuig.... read more
Negosyo Center Bohol Conducts Pricing and Costing Seminar
The Bohol Investment Promotions Center and Negosyo Center Bohol jointly conducted a Pricing and Costing Seminar for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs last March 15, 2017 at Panda Tea Garden Suites, Tagbilaran City. The activity is the first among the series of capability building initiatives of BIPC for its its Basic Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Transformation (B.E.S.T. Series. Thirty (30) MSMEs attended the said seminar and were very thankful for the opportunity given to them. (for training/seminar schedules, please visit us at the Ground Floor, New Capitol Building, Marapao Street, Tagbilaran...No Results Found
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Resorts use volunteers to control HIV threat
UNREGULATED entry of sex workers escorting foreign guests has alarmed tourism stakeholders who ask for ‘any’ government intervention to complement their efforts of putting up the mechanism to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Sex worker escorts, each time entering Bohol with different foreign tourists, could expose local sex workers to the danger of HIV or STI infection. The problem is even compounded as some resort owners admit that some foreign couples swap partners and they feel helpless in stopping them. Feeling helpless on their end, stakeholders along the Alona beach bonded to protect their workers from the risk especially with the threat of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In partnership with Path Foundation Philippines Inc.(PFPI), a non-government organization, resorts have put up volunteer peer educators among workers and organized support groups. That is to keep resorts safe from STI or HIV, which may conveniently go with escorts to tourists, a resort owner confessed. Since we feel helpless against this, we exert efforts on things we can do and hope the government could help us, says Gertrudis Bongo, owner of the Trudis Place, a resort along Alona Bay. “Our peer educators dispense advice and share information on proper sex habits, adult education and protected sex to keep the threat at bay,” she said. “We gather resort workers and increase their knowledge on HIV and STI, hopefully to encourage them to seek the right behavior,” explains Lawrence Castro of the PFPI, who is organizing communities with higher risks of infection. “It’s a real threat,” agrees Ma. Girlie Bungabong, a peer counselor for the family owned Trudis Place. Bungabong, who along...Bohol hopeful of MCC funds’ infusion in poverty reduction
BOHOLANOS still hope for fresh anti-poverty funds just as the country prepares a comprehensive, extensive and systematic funding proposals just as the country became eligible for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact status. Bohol poverty alleviation program has been streamlined using cost sharing schemes wherein the provincial government puts up its funds while tapping other funding sources as counterparts. The MCC is one opened option, Bohol Provincial Planning and Development Officer Atty. John Titus Vistal said. Atty. Vistal, like Governor Erico Aumentado and the whole provincial council led by Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera also believe that Bohol stands a big chance of accessing the funds. The MCC, according to MCC bigwig John Hewko, is a United States Government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world by giving them grants. He added that it is based on the principle that aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance, economic freedom and investments in people. “Its mission is to reduce global poverty through the promotion of sustainable economic growth and fighting corruption,” Hewko said. Local Government leaders here have proposed grants on the Rice Accelerated Emergency Response for rice sufficiency, innovative livestock dispersals, skills training and job generation and highs school internet connectivity. Although it may not be ascertained yet if Bohol gets included in the national programmed projects for MCC support, Boholanos have been very positive that any of the proposed local projects get a fiscal boost. At this, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was in Washington days ago revealed that the Philippines has designated former National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary...DTI Bohol says…Lower distribution costs Keep “goods” affordable
With the country bracing for the worst times as central bank authorities now apprehensive of the country’s inflation jumping to 11% in July-September this year, a local trade and industry officer says the situation may not be as bleak for Bohol. While a double digit inflation rate may be the worst case in the country since May 2005. This as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) noted 8.3 percent inflation rate in April from 6.4 percent in March, this owing to higher food prices. Consumers who monitor the steady increase in prices of commodities have aired concern just as increases in salaries and wages have been dismal, further aggravating the situation of lessened purchasing power of money. However, Jose Hibaya, Chief trade and industry specialist at the local Department of Trade and Industry says the effect on prices may not be too harsh in Bohol and in Central Visayas. “Inflation may not be as devastating in the Visayas, as we have the most efficient channel of distribution, which affects the prices of goods and commodities,” he said. In Bohol in fact, he admitted the presence of key distributors who deliver the goods to the towns, instead of retailers paying for the transport of the same helps keep the prices at bay. At least, the factor of distribution costs would be out of the equation, he explained over the Kapihan sa PIA Thursday and aired live at station DyTR. If there are increases in prices, it would be close to the average rates of .5 to .10%, which the office has monitored since the food and oil price hikes were...PGMA nasuko, uban sa kabanay sa mga biktima sa ilang pagbangutan
WALA pa man mobugtaw sa pagbasol ni bisan kinsa ang, samtang padayon pa ang mga imbestigasyon sa nahitabo sa MV Princess of the Stars, gipadayag na ni Presidente Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ang pagbangutan uban sa mga kapamilya sa nahitungdan sa aksidente. Matud niya, sama sa gibati sa daghang Filipino, nahasubo usab kita sa mga kinabuhi nga nakalas sa bagyo ug sa trahadya sa dagat. Dungan niini, iya usab nga gipadayag ang iyang kasuko sa nahitabo nga pagkalunod sa barko bisan pa man nga padayon pa nga gituki sa mga imbestigador unsa gayud ang tinud-anay nga nahitabo, nganong nahitabo kini ug unsaon nga kalikayan kini sa umaabot. Gimandu na ni Presidente Arryo ang usa ka lawom nga imbestigasyon ”aron marepaso ang mga hilisgutan.” Niini, iya na usab nga gipasalig nga ugkaton ang tanan aron matumbok na ang angay nga manubag sa hitabo subay sa mapalutaw sa imbestigasyon....Study to double Malinao dam storage on KoICA
STUDIES are now started to determine if doubling the holding capacity of the multi-million Malinao Dam is feasible, says Governor Erico Aumentado, who met a team of Korean experts recently. The feasibility study worth a million US dollars is a grant by the Korean Government for the governor’s request on upgrading the Malinas Dam and enlarging its service area. Malinao Dam, of the Bohol Irrigation Project Phase 1 cost 1.4B yen and was designed to catch the waters off Wahig-Pamacsalan River and irrigate 4,960 hectares of prime rice lands. The governor said he personally persuaded Korean authorities to fund the study through a grant, when he was in Korea last year, Aumentado reported in his weekly radio program aired over Bohol radio stations. The governor, who was also instrumental in establishment of the P3.6 million Malinao Dam, reported his meeting with the representatives from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KoICA) June 12 night, as an offshoot of his earlier request. The study, which the KoICA team is doing would determine the feasibility of doubling the holding capacity of the Malinao Dam, from its current 5 million cubic meters and thus, widening the dam’s service area, according to Aumentado. Aumentado named Dr. Kim, KoICA head consultant who assured him that the experts would finish the feasibility within the year so that the Provincial Development Council can finally endorse the project to the Regional Development Council for approval. If such happens, it may be up to the National Economic Development Authority to give its green light on the project, the governor revealed. Over this development, frustrated farmer beneficiaries of the multi-million...National News
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