by admin | Dec 21, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 21 (PIA)–Gisaka na sa code white alert sa Department of Health (DOH) ang tanang mga ospital niini sa tibuok nasud sugod karong adlawa, Disyembre 21.
Matud pa ni DOH Kalihim Janette Garin, kini isip parte sa ilang pagpangandam alang sa posibilidad nga mosaka ang gidaghanon sa mga magkasakit tungod sa bugnaw nga panahon.
Pasabot ni Garin, mas daku ang posibilidad nga maigo sa ubo, sip-on, hilanat ug trangkaso ang mga bata ug mga tigulang.
Tungod niini, gipahinomdoman sa DOH ang publiko nga hingosgan ang resistensiya ug mokaon og mga masustansiya nga pagkaon aron makalikay sa mga sakit karong tingtugnaw.
Kun naa sa white alert status, tanang hospital personnel naka standby alang sa deployment ug augmentation kun kinahanglan ang dugang medical services.
Una niini, nag-andam na usab ang DOH ug uban pang ahensiya sa gobyerno alang sa posibleng mabiktima sa paboto ug saag nga bala dungan sa pagsaulog sa Pasko ug pagsugat sa bag-ong tuig. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 21, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 21 (PIA)–Gi-aprobahan ni Presidente Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III ang suspension of military operations (SOMO) sa Armed Forces of the Philippines batok sa New People’s Army.
Matud pa ni Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Kalihim Sonny Coloma, magsugod ang maong unilateral ceasefire sa Disyembre 23, sa alas-12:01 sa buntag, hangtud Enero 3, 2016 sa alas-11:59 sa gabii.
Niadtong Disyembre 15, ang departamento sa depensa mirekomendar kang Presidente Aquino sa pag-aprobar sa SOMO batok sa mga komunistang rebelde.
Tumong sa gideklarang SOMO sa New People’s Army (NPA) nga makauban usab sa mga sundalo ang ilang mga mahal sa kinabuhi sa tradisyunal nga pagsaulog sa Pasko ug Bag-ong Tuig.
Niadtong Martes lamang, nagdeklarar usab ang NPA og unilateral ceasefire nga magsugod usab sa Disyembre 23 hangtud Enero 3 isip pakighiusa sa pagsaulog sa holiday season.
Kini nagpasabot nga ihunong nila ang binsan unsang operasyon batok sa mga pwersa sa gobyerno. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 17, 2015 | National News
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has always emphasized that fireworks, firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices are dangerous and at times deadly.
To lessen the risk of untoward incidents, DTI encourages the public to choose the right brands and purchase only DTI-certified fireworks, DTI says.
DTI strongly advises the public to look for the Philippine Standard (PS) mark when purchasing fireworks and firecrackers to be assured of the products’ safety when used according to instructions.
Fireworks and firecrackers are under mandatory certification by the Bureau of Philippine Standards (BPS) under the DTI.
Under the BPS Product Certification Scheme, manufacturers of fireworks are required to apply for the Philippine Standard (PS) license prior to distribution or sale of products.
In the absence of accredited testing laboratory, DTI-BPS conducts in-plant testing of fireworks to check its compliance with the said standard.
Only those manufacturers who comply with the requirements of the Philippine National Standard on fireworks are issued the PS license and are authorized to use the PS mark on their products.
With the same intentions against illegal and unsafe fireworks and firecrackers, the Philippine National Police (PNP) regulates the sale, manufacture, distribution and use of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices as mandated in Republic Act 7183.
The Act also requires the manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to secure a license or permit prior to sale and distribution of their products and prohibits the sale of imported firecrackers.
DTI reminds the public to not only search for the PS mark on the fireworks they buy but to also check the package for proper labels.
For more information, call DTI Direct at 751.3330 or visit the DTI-BPS website at http://bps.dti.gov.ph/
by admin | Dec 16, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, December 15 (PIA)–Crime volume in Bohol escalates 8.77% in November compared to last month as police blotters recorded 638 as against 532 in October.
The spike in total crime volume however feature a 15.25% decrease in index crimes, which amounted to 45 cases lesser than last month, according to Camp Dagohoy’s Police Superintendent Ricky Delelis.
Reporting about Bohol’s peace and order at the Provincial Peace and Order Council meeting at the Reynas Garden and Haven, December 14, Supt. Delelis, operations in-charge at Camp Dagohoy also pointed out to a 29.45% increase in non index crimes in November.
Of Bohol’s total crime volume in November at 806, a good 167 cases, or 26% are traffic related incidents.
Without traffic incidents, Bohol could only have 638 crime cases, according to Delelis.
Of the 806 total crime volume, 510 are index crimes. And of the 510, 167 are also traffic related incidents.
It may be recalled that Camp Dagohoy and the Bohol Provincial Police Office implemented Oplan Lambat Sibat, which had police officers swooping down on criminal elements especially into the drug trade.
Non Index crimes, police crime statisticians explained, means those which are backed by special laws and not necessarily by the revised penal code.
An increase in the Non Index Crimes tell a proactive police organization deciding to move out from their desk duties in order to curb criminals and their activities.
Topping Bohol crime types in November is theft at 141 cases, followed by physical injuries at 58 and robbery at 57 cases.
Police also recorded 11 Boholano deaths by shooting while one victim while one more survived the attack.
Tagbilaran City claims 5 deaths, and one injury while the towns of Candijay, Danao, Sierra Bullones Buenavista and Tubigon as having these shootings.
In Tagbilaran too, of the 5 deaths, police said the motive of one killing was drugs, another died for robbery and the remaining four are still undetermined. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 14 (PIA)–Sugod Enero sa sunod tuig, mahimo nang makakuha og libreng tambal nga pang-maintenance ang mga adunay sakit nga hypertension ug diabetes gikan sa ilang mga Regional Rural Health Units.
Kini ang gibutyag ni Department of Health (DOH) Kalihim Janette Garin kagahapon diin iyang gi-aghat ang mga nag-antos sa maong sakit nga magpa-miyembro sa ilang Department of Health ‘Hypertention and Diabetic Club’.
Matud pa sa Kalihim nga tuyo niining maseguro nga regular nga masusi ang mga pasyente nga nag-antos sa maong sakit aron malikayan ang pag-grabe niini.
Giingong ang mga Regional Rural Health Units ang magpadala sa kumpletong listahan sa mga pasyenteng nagpalista. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 14 (PIA)–Epektibo niadtong Disyembre 12, temporaryo unang hipahunong sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) ang pagproseso og dokumento sa mga OFWs sa siyam ka non-compliant o dili luwas nga mga nasud.
Matud pa ni POEA administrator Hans Cacdac, dili una mag-deploy ang nasud og mga OFWs sa Afghanistan, Chad, Cuba, Haiti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia ug Zimbabwe.
“All POEA operating units are hereby directed to temporarily hold the processing of documents of workers bound for the identified non-compliant countries,” matud pa ni Cacdac.
Kini base na usab sa rekomendasyon sa Commission on Audit (COA) sa POEA nga temporaryong suspensohon ang deployment sa mga nahisgotang nasud.
Sa pagkakaron, naa sa 194 ang gi-ilang compliant o luwas nga nasud alang sa mga OFWs base sa Amended Migrant Workers Act.
Ubos sa balaod, tugotan lamang sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ug POEA ang deployment sa mga OFWs sa mga nasud nga sertipikado sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) nga luwas ug kaya nga hatagan og proteksiyon ang mga Filipino workers.
Kinahanglan usab dinhi ang paghimo og bilateral agreements tali sa Pilipinas ug ang host countries aron seguradohon ang maayong kondisyon sa mga OFWs nga magtrabaho sa nagkalain-laing lugar sa kalibotan. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Dec. 14 (PIA)–Tagbilaran City has once again surpassed its tax collection efficiency in the third quarter of this year ranking 1st place with 140.29% efficiency rating in the whole Region 7 in Real Property Tax Collection.
Second place is Bayawan City in Negros Oriental with 126.81%, followed by Cebu City with 119.09%, Mandaue City, Cebu with 117.76 and 5th place is Dumaguete City, Nagros Oriental with 117.69%.
Tagbilaran City has already collected real property taxes amounting to P66,173,986.98 just after nine months this year.
It already surpassed its annual target of P58, 960,736.00 for 2015.
Mayor John Geesnell Yap attributed the positive performance of the City Government to the collective efforts of the different departments and to the trust and support of the Tagbilaranons.
For the past two years, Tagbilaran City has been cited by the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) headed by its Regional Director Herminigilda Garsula for its outstanding Tax Collection Efficiency. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Editorial
This week, the huge chunk of Philippine voters got a pre-Christmas treat of something to ponder or pick on.
Right at the heat of campaign or no-campaign seasons as yet, Liberal Party and President Noynoy Aquino’s fair-haired boy played light on a claim that Davao City’s peace and order calling it a myth.
The peace and order situation in the country’s biggest city got into Roxas, sensing that this single fact is helping propel presidential competitor Rodrigo Duterte to scrape the ceilings of social media survey groups.
And it is yet Duterte’s second week after fulfilling a nail-biting submission of his Presidential bid at the Comelec, officially killing all speculations about this fairly unpredictable man’s not running from a fight.
With most people sensing that a discipline-blighted Philippines has no need of a Wharton economics degree, people looked at Davao, a city that thrives in the borders of terror as a possible redemption.
Sitting on an island while its neighbors make money out of kidnap-for ransom, terror bombing and drug-trade, it would be legendary for Davao to just sit there and be topping country’s peace and order situation.
Well, like every social scientist would say, peace and order is never just about instilling fear, because that can happen in a civil unrest and yet there is no peace. And order.
But unlike those lit with unrest, Davao has its police organization, justice system and penology all worked up. This is the city that had a mayor offering a nice punch to a prosecutor for the latter’s apparent ego trip.
And when a heaping serving of justice is needed and the systemic legal process is excruciatingly slow, this is also a city that has a mythical blindfolded lady in draping robes.
Here, criminals and undesirables have a nasty habit of getting found, lifeless and a bloating lesson for everyone with the intent to beat the country’s wretched systems.
Here, either criminals, die or they flee, whichever is profitable for them. So, you have a city that some ranking services hoists up as among the world’s most peaceful.
And this, apparently irked Mar Roxas and his minions.
Roxas is simply wanting to hit on Duterte, but a Wharton School training tells him to pick on Davao’s Peace and Order, calling it a myth.
You see, at Daang Matuwid which Roxas vows to continue, they also have this nasty habit of opening up their mouths faster than their economic brains to process. Some have a queer way of saying it: foot and mouth disease.
That is when they contrive of saying something brilliant, they end up hurting their feet.
This said, you have Mar Roxas, former DILG Chief who has the police under his command, also bolstered saying Davao police are epic failures. And he said it, as if it is Mamasapano and he was kept in the blind despite his being DILG.
Indeed the police have lost a significant chunk of morale with the way the politics is gaining into the DILG. They even said what Robredo built in years, it only took a single Yolanda incident to wash out.
And as the Daang Matuwid has been a constant war cry for the Liberal, every time Roxas or its Liberal party lame duck president opens its mouth, some bad thing is going to happen.
This has become a battle between what is mythical and what is legendary.
What is just unfortunate is that which is legendary peace and order is now tagged as mythical, while the myth in Daang Matuwid has been stuffed to us as legendary. So you ask, where the fail is?
by admin | Dec 10, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 10 (PIA)–Aprubado na sa ikatulo ug pinal nga pagbasa ang House Bill 6268 o Salary Standardization Law o SSL 2015.
Ang SSL 2015 gipalabang dayon sa unang adlaw pa lamang sa pagdungog human kini giduso mismo ni Presidente Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III.
170 ka mga Kongresista ang mibotar pabor sa maong balaodnon, 5 ang mi-kontra samtang 1 lamang ang nag-abstain.
Target sa SSL 2015 nga mahiduol ang suholan sa may 1.3 milyong kawani sa gobyerno sa suholang tigdawat sa mga naa sa pribadong sektor.
Sa SSL 2015, makadawat og 14th month pay ang mga kawani sa gobyerno, gawas pa sa dugang suholan nila nga paga-tungaon sa upat ka tuig nga implementasyon.
Gawas niini, may idugang usab sa performance based bonus o PBB sa mga kawani sa gobyerno.
Tuyo niining madasig ug magpabilin ang mga kawani ug opisyal sa gobyerno, mao nga ang kumpensasyon niini dili mo-ubos sa 70 porsiyento sa merkado alang sa tanang salary grades.
Ang SSL 2015 gilagda nilang House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora, Accounts Committee Chairman Eleandro Madrona ug Appropriations Chairman Isidro Ungab. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 10, 2015 | National News
MANILA, Dec. 10 (PIA)–Gilagdaan na ni Presidente Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III ang Republic Act 10708 o ang Tax Incentive Management and Transparency Act o TIMTA.
Tuyo niining iduso ang transparency ug accountability sa paghatag ug pagdumala sa tax incentives sa mga negosyo, indibidwal ug korporasyon.
Matud pa ni Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Kalihim Herminio Coloma, makatabang kini aron mapalambo pa ang target income sa gobyerno sa larangan sa pagbuhis.
Giingong pinaagi niini, magbaton og kahigayonan ang gobyerno nga ma-monitor, ma-review ug ma-analyze ang epekto niini sa ekonomiya apil na ang mapa-paspas ang paghatag og serbisyo sa publiko.
Gusto maseguro sa balaod nga pahimoslan gayud sa katawhan ang nahisgotang prebilihiyo.
“This law seeks to “promote fiscal accountability and transparency in the grant and management of tax incentives by developing means to measure the government’s fiscal exposure on these grants and to enable the government to monitor, review and analyze the economic impact thereof and thereby optimize the social benefit of such incentives,” matud pa ni Coloma. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Dec 10, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN, Dec. 10 (PIA)–Sugod karong adlawa (Disyembre 10), ipanghatag na sa Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) ang cash gifts sa 235,180 nila ka pensioners.
Naggahin og kinatibuk-ang P2.6 bilyon ang ahensiya aron ipanghatag isip cash gift sa mga retiradong kawani sa pampublikong sektor alang ning tuiga.
Matud pa sa Presidente ug General Manager sa GSIS nga si Robert G. Vergara, ang maong kantidad mas taas og 8 porsiyento kun itandi sa pondong gigahin sa niaging tuig.
Tungod sa gidugang sa pondo, ang mga pensiyonado nga nakadawat og kapin sa P10,000 kaniadto makadawat na og dili molapas sa P12,600 nga bonus alang ning buwan sa Disyembre.
Samtang ang mga nakadawat usab og P10,000 o mas ubos pa niini niadtong 2014, makadawat og dili molapas sa susamang kantidad karong 2015. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
