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Spanish stone arch bridges In Bohol cultural properties
While it is not yet too late, the National Museum (NM) has initiated the putting up of historical markers in Spanish-era colonial arched stone bridges that have survived the test of time and the real risk of road construction and widening operations. Since then, these stone arched bridges would be treated as cultural properties of the country in pursuance of the constitutional right of the state to foster the preservation, enrichment and dynamic evolution of a Filipino culture, to conserve, develop, promote and popularize the nation’s historical and cultural heritage and resources. As cultural property, the NM means products of human creativity by which a people and a nation reveal their identity. Along this line, the old bridges are now under the protection of the State, which regulates its disposition. The historical marker, of the seven Spanish colonial stone bridges in Dimiao and three more in Lila now sits beside a creek in one of the seven bridges in Poblacion Dimiao, located along a street that runs parallel to the national highway. No less than National Museum Assistant Director and Cultural Properties Division Angel Bautista represented the NM while Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Cultural heritage of the Church Chair Rev Fr. Milan Ted Torralba led the unveiling of the marker that lumps the 10 bridges which the government has just placed its mantle of protection. Built possibly between the late 17th to the 18th century, these stone arch bridges provide an easy access for land travel across creeks that flow across the town. Made of roughly hewn coral stones, these Spanish colonial bridges work on the basic... read moreDTI organizes innovation conference
On October 23, the innovation conference Slingshot Cebu 2018 will gather start-ups, entrepreneurs, innovators, educational institutions and government agencies at the Cebu City Sports Club. According to the organizer Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the latest edition of Slingshot Cebu will have the theme of “Revving up your business in a Digital World”. Appropriate for its target participants which are both brick and mortar MSMEs and tech startups. Slingshot Cebu 2018 will have the twin objectives of nudging brick and mortars to adapt and adopt digital, while our tech startups will have the opportunity to network, validate business models and gain traction. This year’s Slingshot topics include: The Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, Scale Up Program for Startups, Data Privacy and Digital Marketing. There will be two panel conversations. One to tackle Entrepreneurial Journeys and another will be on Revving up Revenues through Business Model Design. All will have both MSMEs and Startups in the panel to show that innovation and entrepreneurship are really two sides of the same coin. Slingshot Cebu 2018 has two break-out sessions held simultaneously in the afternoon. The first session is called “The Pitch” for tech start-ups and brick and mortar MSMEs. Judges will be corporates from both the traditional and startup world. The second session is called “Coach and Connect.” This coaching session will focus on sales & marketing, financing & funding, legal, HR Related, and Payment Solutions. Right after the conference, the DTI will launch the Startup Island Mentoring Program in Central Visayas. DTI 7 Assistant Regional Director Ma. Elena Arbon said that the Startup Island Mentoring program, which is being piloted in... read more
SAP Go opens Bohol’s first Malasakit Center
Poor Boholano patients who have refused to go for treatment in a hospital for the confinement payments and medicine, may now find they have a government that helps them in their bills. To realize a campaign promise to make health facilities accessible to the poor, no less than Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Christopher Lawrence Go led the opening of the country’s 11th one-stop-shop for Filipinos who need medical, financial assistance from various agencies. Another one center would be opened in Ubay soon. Called the Malasakit Centers, Bohol’s one-stop-shop opens inside the Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH) in Tagbilaran October 12, 2018 with SAP Go leading hospital authorities and heads of government agencies pooling their resources to prop up the facility for the poor here. “Every time we fall sick, we do not know where to run. Now, we can go to this Malasakit Center and get help,” SAP Go said. Malasakit Center is the office that directs us, SAP Go, who had been entrusted by President Rodrigo Duterte to lead the opening of these centers, one that the president lodged in his office. At times, when relatives of patients need the help of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, of the Department of Health, or the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth), Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) or the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), they use up all the day running through these offices. The Malasakit Center puts them all in one place, Go was quoted in news reports. To acknowledge the help of these agencies, Go said, “Salamat kayo sa inyong tabang kay without...Panglao kids start Energy revolution
PANGLAO, Bohol, August 7 (PIA) –Clean energy revolution in small amperage light rolls off from here and it is a wolf in sheep’s cloak. An ordinary dirty energy kerosene lantern which otherwise would have given a warm flickering incandescent glow now gets a new light source: clean Light Emitting Diode (LED) powered by solar energy. “Thanks to Liter of Light and MyShelter Foundation who taught us how to do it,” confesses Jane Heberly Bompat, Grade VI pupil at Lourdes Elementary School (LES) in Panglao. Assembled by LES kids, the repackaged lantern would soon be among the innovations the Liter of Light and its 34 Bohol children ambassadors would be using to spread light into the country’s communities still darkened by energy poverty. “How could we help 20 million Filipinos without access to light? Do we give them light from patented sources which is expensive and hard to repair or do we think of innovations?” asked Liter of Light and MyShelter founder Ilac Diaz. Asked how his mission came about, Diaz was more willing to share. It all started with one bottle, one carpenter, one inspiration and an empty liter bottle of soda. Diaz said they had to come up with a solution in providing light to help communities wiped out by Haiyan, and Filipino bayanihan was a good concept to start with. Liter of Light filled the PET bottle with water and bleach and stuck it in house roofs to produce refracted illumination indoors. But for Haiyan victims, “buying was an option but shipping cost would eat up about 70% of our budget, we need to come up with...Local News/ Bohol Balita
Voters registration, buksan na usab sa Nob. 7
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 26 (PIA)–Gitakda na sa Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang pagbukas og balik sa voters registration sa sunod buwan alang sa Barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. Base sa resolusyon en banc nga gipagawas sa Comelec, sa Nobyembre 7 o halos duha ka semana gikan karon ibalik sa pagpa-rehistro sa mga botante nga molanat taman sa Abril 29 sa sunod tuig. Matud pa nga mas gi-uswag sa Comelec ang registration aron masiguro ang partisipasyon sa mas daghan pang botante. Subling gi-schedule ang voters registration human milusot sa Senado ug Kamara ang balaodnon nga i-oktaba ang maong eleksyon nga gi-uyonan usab ni Presidente Rodrigo Duterte. Tungod niini, gipaabot ang dugang tulo ka milyong magparehistro sa barangay election ug duha ka milyon usab alang sa SK. Matud pa sa Comelec nga sa gipahigayong registration niadtong Hulyo 15 hangtud 30, naa sa tulo ka milyong mga botante ang nagpatala sa tibuok nasod....Kolurum nga mga sakyanang pangdagat, tutokan sa Coast Guard karong Kalag-kalag
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 26 (PIA)–Karon pa lang, nanawagan na ang Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) sa mga pasahero nga mopaule sa ilang mga lalawigan karong panahon sa Kalag-kalag nga dili mosakay sa mga kolurum nga sakyanang pangdagat. Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa Coast Guard nga si Commander Armand Balilo, kini aron malikayan nga mabutang sa kakuyaw ang kinabuhi sa mga pasahero sa mga sakyanang pangdagat. Gipasabot ni Balilo nga gawas sa walay safety gadgets ang mga kolurum nga bangkang de motor, wala usab kini manifesto mao nga walay insurance ug dili moagi sa inspection sa ilang mga kawani. Dungan niini, gibutang na karong adlawa sa heightened alert sa PCG ang ilang tropa sa tibuok nasod. Gipaabot sa PCG nga mahimong triple ang gidaghanon sa mga pasahero karon tungod sa taas nga adlaw sa bakasyon kun itandi sa niaging tuig. Matud pa nga pagmatuod lamang niini mao ang giingong fully-booked na ang mga shipping lines karon pa...Padala gikan abroad nga nagkantidad og P10K paubos, tax free na
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 26 (PIA)–Tungod sa nagsingabot nga Pasko, maayong balita ang gipahibalo karon sa Philippine Postal Corp. ngadto sa publiko nga tigpadala pinaagi sa koreo o Post Office nga ang mga padala gikan sa ubang nasod nga nagkantidad og P10,000 paubos, tax free na karon. Kini base sa bag-ong probisyon sa balaod ubos sa bag-ong Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) nga gilagdaan niadtong Mayo 30, 2016 isip Republic Act (RA) 10863, aron e-rebisar ang 38-ka tuig nga Tariff and Customs Code sa Bureau of Customs (BOC) nga gipalabang niadtong 1978, aron mahatagan ang mga ordinaryong katawhan, overseas Filipino workers ug konsumidor nga mogamit sa serbisyo postal sa nasod. Matud pa sa Chapter 3. Section 423. Determination of the De Minimis Value.— “ No duties and taxes shall be collected on goods with an FOB of FCA value of ten thousand pesos (P10,000) or below. The Secretary of Finance shall adjust the de minimis valued as provided herein, every three (3) years after the effectivity of this Act. Nahimo kining epektibo kagahapon, Oktubre 25, 2016 human ang kinse (15) ka adlaw nga pagpamantala sa official gazette. Sa bag-ong balaod, gisaka ang “tax-free cap” sa mga pakete nga ginapadala sa mga OFWs pinaagi sa Post Office. Dako og mapahimos ang mga OFWs niining bag-ong balaod tungod kay mahimo na sila makapadala og mga personal items sa ilang mga minahal sa kinabuhi sa Pilipinas pinaagi sa koreo nga dili na buhisan basta ang mga ipadala dili molapas sa presyong gitakda ug wala gidili sa balaod. Ang balaod sa “minimum thresholds” o ang “de minimis” mao ang gitakdang kantidad nga buhisan...DOLE, nipagawas sa pay rules sa Oktubre 31 ug Nobyembre 1
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 25 (PIA)–Nagpagawas na og pay rules ang Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) isip pahinumdom sa pribadong sektor sa pag-obserbar sa saktong pay rules ug core labor standards sa Oktubre 31 ug Nobyembre 1 nga gi-deklarar isip special non-working days. Ang DOLE nipagawas sa Labor Advisory No. 15, Series of 2016 o Guidelines on the Payment of Wages for the Special Non-Working Days on October 31 and November 1, 2016. Ang Oktubre 31 (Additional non-working day) ug Nobyembre 1 (All Saints Day) gi-deklarar nga special non-working days base sa Proclamation 1105, Series of 2015. Kun ang empleyado dili mosulod sa trabaho niining mga petsaha, ipatuman ang “no work, no pay” nga palisiya gawas lamang kun adunay paborable nga palisiya, praktis, o collective bargaining agreement (CBA) nga mohatag og sweldo sa special non-working days. Kun mo-trabaho sa maong mga adlaw, ang empleyado bayran og dugang 30 porsiyento sa iyang inadlaw nga suholan sa unang walo (8) oras nga pagtrabaho (Daily Rate x 130% + COLA scheme). Alang sa mo-trabaho og lapas walo (8) ka oras (overtime work), ang empleyado pagabayaran og dugang 30 porsiyento sa iyang inoras kun hourly rate sa maong adlaw (Hourly rate of basic daily wage x 130 % x 130 % x number of hours worked). Kun mo-trabaho atol sa special day nga natunong sa rest day sa empleyado, bayran sila og dugang 50 porsiyento sa ilang inadlaw nga suholan sa unang walo (8) ka oras nga pagtrabaho (Daily Rate x 150 % + COLA). Samtang alang sa pagtrabaho og lapas sa walo (8) ka oras kun overtime work atol sa special day...Postal ID, dawaton na sa pagkuha og pasaporte
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 25 (PIA)–Dawaton na sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) isip nag-unang ID requirement sa pagkuha og pasaporte ang bag-o ug modernong postal ID sa Philippine Postal Corp.sa tanang buhatan niini sa tibuok nasod. Matud pa sa PhilPost, gi-ila na sa DFA ang bag-ong postal ID tungod sa gibag-o nga pisikal ug biometrics based nga security feature niini. Mahimo na usab dawaton ang bag-ong postal ID alang sa passport application sa mga satellite offices sa Metro Manila ug apil na usab sa mga regional consular offices ug mga foreign service posts. Kasamtangan na usab gitarong karon ang ePassport Application Forms aron mauban sa listahan sa mga ginadawat nga primary ID alang sa passport application kauban na ang postal ID. Ang postal ID usa sa mga government-issued ID nga gi-ila na karon sa mga institusyon isip kamatuoran sa kailhanan ug address. Mahimo nang mo-aplay sa bag-ong postal ID sa tibuok nasod human gibuksan sa niaging tuig ang pipila ka buhatan sa PhilPost alang sa digital processing sa mga aplikasyon alang sa bag-o ug modernong postal ID card. May bayronon nga P504.00 alang sa maong bag-ong postal ID ug renewable kini matag tulo ka tuig....National News
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