by admin | Jul 11, 2015 | Health and Medicine, Local News / Bohol Balita
The K of C Recreation and Fitness Center will hold the first Mr. Sandugo Muscle Showdown at the Island City Mall on July 18, 2015. The showdown event is organized together with the Blue Grass Project and is presented by Roy and Maita Thomas, Friends from Hawaii, Hon. Jose Antonio S. Veloso.
The participants of the showdown represent the various gyms and fitness centers in the city led by the K of C Recreation and Fitness Center. The other participating centers are Wild Card Fitness Gym, Fitness World Gym, Bakbons and Fit Stop. Mr. Lloyd Vergara, fitness instructor of K of C, said that the event should help promote fitness and health among Boholanos.
by admin | Jul 11, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita, Tech Talk, Tourism
One of the minor yet exciting awards for the Miss Bohol 2015 pageant is the “Darling of the Social Media” award. It officially started on July 10, 2015 after being announced by the organizing committee of the pageant. The criteria is the number of shares of the official web page of the candidate on the official Bohol Sandugo Festival website at www.boholsandugofestival.com.
One of the purposes of this minor award is to help promote the official Sandugo Festival website and by sharing the official web pages of the candidates, the main website itself is promoted.
Fans, friends, family and handlers of the candidates are reminded that the criteria is the number of shares on Facebook and Google+. “Likes” on Facebook are not included. To help promote your favorite candidate, please go to www.boholsandugofestival.com/miss-bohol-2015 then click the picture of the candidate then share the page using the buttons below the picture.
The award is officiated by Auza.Net and will be tallied at 12:00NN on July 18, 2015.
by admin | Jul 4, 2015 | Tech Talk
The Bohol Information and Communications Technology Council held its monthly meeting on July 3, 2015 at the Buzzz Cafe at Galleria Luisa in Tagbilaran City Bohol. The meeting was presided by the council’s chairperson Ms. Lai Biliran.
Ms. Biliran highlighted the various activities lined up that the council should lead or at least participate. In particular, she said that the Sandugo-Maker Fest activity which is part of the Sandugo celebration this year, should be promoted and attended by the tech community as the speakers are authorities in entrepreneurship and technology.
Details about the Tech4Ed and TVWS (TV whitespace) were also discussed with the Google Educators Group representative and the DOST-ICTO representative as these projects by the Department of Science and Technology should be strongly supported by the council in order to help make impact in the countryside by bringing digital content for education even in informal setting.
Another initiative that the council will contribute is on ‘Rural Impact Sourcing’ which is aimed at generating online jobs at the rural areas to help generate jobs without requiring workers to leave their homes.
Other topics discussed where the Business Process Management Stakeholders Forum, the ICT Stakeholders Forum, NICP Summit, Startup Weekend, Maker Competition, Service Management Program and DIGIBayan initiative.
Participants at the July monthly meeting of the Bohol ICT Council
by admin | Jun 30, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, June 29 (PIA)–Gihimo na karon ang nagkalain-laing pagpangandam alang sa mas mabulokon ug sadyang pagsaulog sa Sandugo 2015.
Mao kini ang gipasalig sa mga opisyal nga nitambong sa gipahigayong Meet The Press Forum sa Bohol Tropics ning bag-o lang nga gipangunahan nilang Gov. Edgar Chatto, Tagbilaran City Mayor Baba Yap ug Sandugo Foundation chair ug Provincial Tourism Council Chair Atty. Lucas Nunag, binuligan usab sa Bohol Association of Hotels, Resorts, and Restaurants (BAHRR) pinaagi sa ilang president nga si Rommel Gonzales.
Gipasalig usab niini ang pagpatunhay sa kahapsay ug kalinaw ilabi na sa mga pantalan ug tugpahanan bisan sa pagdagsang sa ginaghanon sa mga Bol-anon nga mahidangat dinhi alang sa Tigum Bol-anon sa Tibuok Kalibutan (TBTK).
Ang mga kalihokan magsugod karong Hulyo 1 sa kasaulogan sa ika-49 Charter Day sa syudad sa Tagbilaran nga ipahigayon sa Bohol Cultural Center.
Gawas niini, ipahigayon ang Agri Fair (Hulyo 13-17), Trade Fair (Hulyo 22-27), International Food Fusion (Hulyo 22-26), Bohol Pop Music Festival ug Sandugo street dancing (Hulyo 26), Awards Night sa The Outstanding Boholanos Around the World (TOBAW) sa Hulyo 27 ug ang Miss Bohol 2015.
Samtang gitakdang mohimo og espesyal nga pasundayag alang sa mga Bol-anon ang Asia’s Got Talent 2015 grand winner El Gamma Penumbra sa Hulyo 27. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 18, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 18 (PIA)–No less than Unites States Agency for International Development (USAid) Mission Director for the Philippines and the Pacific Islands as well Senior Adviser, program and project development officer for the largest donor agency to the Philippines hands in teaching and learning materials to Cogon teachers and students, June 18, 2015.
USAID mission director Gloria Steele and senior adviser John Spears handed for the American People, its commitment of support to the Philippines and its basic education with the instructional and learning materials, at the Cogon Elementary School.
The teaching materials and school aids are part of the Basa Pilipinas, a flagship basic education project of the USAID in support of the country’s early grades reading program.
Implemented in collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd), Basa Pilipinas aims to improve the reading skills for at least one million early grade students in Filipino, English and selected mother tongues, DepED sources explained.
It (Basa Pilipinas) hopes to achieve this by improving reading instruction, reading delivery systems, and access to quality reading materials and managing a teacher training program to maximize on the learning impacts, DepED said.
Started in January 2013 and would soon be bowing out after four years (2013-2016), Basa Pilipinas has aimed to significantly improve education in the country even as it implements the K12 educational reform, according to USAID website.
In its first year of implementation, Basa Pilipinas focused its activities in two DepEd divisions in the provinces of La Union and Cebu, and when it had pooled master trainers for grade school teachers, it spread to Bohol.
In the last quarter of 2013, USAID country director Gloria Steele and then newly installed Ambassador Philip Goldberg handed the teaching and learning materials for Maribojoc, in coordination with another USAid project Synergeia.
Basa Pilipinas also provides technical assistance to DepEd in the development of valid and reliable early grade reading standards. The project increases advocacy for early grade reading at the national level by coordinating efforts with private sector partners and developing a unified plan for a national reading campaign.
In close coordination with DepEd, Basa Pilipinas provides teaching and learning resource materials and secures formal partnership commitments from Brothers Brother Foundation, Petron Foundation and National Bookstore Foundation in the acquisition and distribution of reading materials in project sites.
This turnover highlights USAID’s commitment to assisting the Department of Education in their efforts to improve the reading skills of Filipino children, Capitol, in its invitation to media, said. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
USAID Mission Director Gloria Steele and Senior Adviser for Administration John Spears pose with Cogon Elementary pupils Clyde Tumanda and Joanna Maarat, after the dignitaries received personalized “thanks you” cards from the kids. The kids handed the card during the turn-over of learning materials from the USAID’s Basa Pilipinas program, for use of Cogon Grades 1-3 teachers. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Jun 18, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY. June 18 (PIA)–May had 27 more crimes compared to April, but Camp Dagohoy showed proof that the increase in fact is not what it implies.
At the recent provincial Peace and order Council Meeting in time for the Health Education Agriculture Tourism and Information Technology Caravan in Inabanga town, authorities from the Bohol Police Provincial Headquarters in Camp Dagohoy showed that minus the traffic related incidents (TRI) in the crime blotters, crime incidents, in fact, would be lower.
In a Powerpoint presentation, Police Senior Superintendent Dennis Agustin showed that overall, the crime of physical injuries in May topped April’s 173 cases with 227, this month.
Moreover, the Bohol police chief who used to be a key Metro Manila Station Chief, of the 227 physical injury cases in May, 144 of them are vehicular accidents.
In the last two months (April and May), total crime volume in Bohol reached 1607, but without the traffic related incidents in it, police would be looking at 1249 cases. This, Colonel Agustin pointed out, is 22% decrease.
To further highlight the disparity if traffic related incidents were not counted among cases, Col Agustin cited physical injuries and homicide cases in Bohol.
Total physical injury cases in Bohol in April and may reached 400, but 245 cases of them involved vehicular accidents. This, Col Agustin noted is 61%.
For malicious mischief, Campa Dagohoy noted 145 cases which should have been only 43 cases, if traffic related incidents were counted out of it. The TRI in this case is 70%.
Moreover, on homicide, or the killing of one person by another can either be intentional, which is murder, or unintentional, which is manslaughter, Col Agustin points out: “there were 20 cases, 10 cases of these have been traffic related, that if this were curbed, Bohol would have 50% decrease in crimes listed in blotters.
This shows that if proper attention is focused on keeping traffic violations at the minimum, total crime volume could go down and lives could be spared, a PPOC member said.
This data stunned members of the PPOC as this was the first time that the figures revealed dramatic impacts on the efforts to erase the misconception that Boholanos are troublesome owing to the high physical injury cases noted. (rac/PIA-7Bohol)
by admin | Jun 16, 2015 | National News
MANILA, June 10 (PIA)–Giseguro sa Malakanyang nga gi-atiman na sa gobyerno ang mga problema sa penal system sa nasud.
Kini ang tubag sa Malakanyang sa panawagan sa usa ka magbabalaod nga i-audit ang mga detention facility tungod kay gawas nga huot na, daghan na usab ang mga overstaying nga inmates.
Matud pa ni Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Kalihim Sonny Coloma, gi- atiman na sa Department of Justice (DOJ) ang kahimtang sa mga bilanggoan ubos sa Bureau of Corrections.
Gibutyag usab ni Coloma nga adunay plano ang gobyerno nga magpatukod og usa ka bag-ong nasudnong bilanggoan pinaagi sa Public-Private Partnership aron matarong ang kondisyon sa mga bilanggoan.
Kalabot niini, miingon si Coloma nga gi-andam na ang competitive bidding alang sa planong itukod nga bag-ong national penitentiary. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 15, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, June 15 (PIA) –Two outstanding local musical groups set the tone for the Second Bohol International Choir Festival Competitions (BICFC) which gathers six international choir groups and 3Philippine Choirs in Bohol from June 16-20, 2015.
Outstanding for being hailed as national winners in the National Arts and Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) in their respective years, Dimiao Children’s Rondalla and the Alicia Bamboo Ensemble takes the Plaza Rizal kiosk to welcome the foreign and national choir delegates who would be assembling at the Plaza for the grand parade opening the choir festival at 4:00 PM June 16.
The Dimiao Children’s Rondalla, under the baton of conductress Norma Acuram, have been hailed as one of the best children musical groups which picks the string instruments: bajo de arco, bandurria, banjo, tenor, ukulele and the string guitar to play favorite folksongs, Filipino lovesongs and some popular music.
On the other hand, the Alicia Pangkat Kawayan is an all bamboo band which uses the kulintang as its main instruments and uses the bamboo flute, bamboo guitars, gongs and contraption of bamboo tubes which provides the percussions. Organized from Katipunan Alicia Elementary School, the Bamboo ensemble has Ado Salarda as its musical director.
Both groups would be taking turns in entertaining the BICFC delegates from Incheon Seo-gu Choir, Jeonju Happy Choir, Ulsan Jung-ju Female Choir, Ulsan Taehwagang Choir, all from South Korea, the Taipei Alice Choir of Taiwan and the Sol Art Choir of Vietnam.
Both groups would also be entertaining Philippine Choirs participating in the 2nd BICFC organized by the Center for Culture and the Arts Development (CCAD) of Bohol Capitol’s Office of the Governor.
In the list of local choir delegates are Don Bosco Choir, Cebu Singing Ambassadors and University of the Philippine Los Banos.
According to CCAD Head Romulo Tagaan, no Bohol choir is joining the competition in as much as both Bohol Master Singers and Holy Name University Choirs have both won the competitions already.
The world famous Loboc Children’s Choir is also banned from entering the competitions, them being recognized international winners. The choir is now on to a concert abroad: New Zealand and Australia in its efforts to further fatten the fund sources for the rehabilitation and restoration of its church which the earthquake of 2013 damaged.
On June 16 also, Boholanos can have advance previews of the choirs as special concert is set at the BQ Mall Atrium at 2:00 PM. Performing are Vietnam’s Sol Art and Korea’s Jeon-ju Happy Choir. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Jun 9, 2015 | National News
MANILA, June 09 (PIA)–Nanawagan ang Commission on Elecions (Comelec) sa publiko nga dili himuong basehan ang mga political advertisement sa pagpili sa mga ibotar sa nasudnong piniliay sa umaabot Mayo 2016.
Pebrero sa sunod tuig pa ang pormal nga pagsugod sa campaign period apan karon pa lang, nagkadaghan na ang mga political advertisement sa telebisyon.
Gipahayag sa Comelec nga dili pa kini makonsiderar nga premature campaigning mao usab nga dili mahimong i-reklamo ang mga politikong nagpaluyo niini.
Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa Comelec nga si Dir. James Jimenez, makonsiderar lamang nga premature campaigning kun ang usa ka kandidato nakaduso na sa iyang certificate of candidacy (COC) ug kun nangampanya kini bisan wala pa ang campaign period.
Sa Oktubre pa gitakda sa Comelec ang pagduso sa COC alang sa mga modagan sa 2016 elections.
Alang sa Comelec, bisan walay balaod nga nagdili sa sayong pagpangampanya, wala pa gihapon kini nahisubay sa aspketong moral ug ethical.
Pasabot pa ni Jimenez, dili patas ang ingon niining aksiyon sa mga politikong walay katakos sa paghimo sa ilang kaugalingong political advertisement nga gikonsiderar nga mahal.
“Engaging in premature campaigning unbalances the playing field,” matud pa ni Jimenez.
Taliwala sa kawalay balaod aron mapugngan ang premature campaigning, nanawagan pa gihapon sa publiko ang Comelec nga magmasusihon sa pagpili sa mga mahimong mosunod nga lider sa nasud. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 9, 2015 | National News
MANILA, June 09 (PIA)–Gipahinumdoman sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) nga may madawat pa gihapon ang mga mamumuo nga dili mosulod o naka-leave sa trabaho sa Hunyo 12 tungod kay deklarado man kining regular holiday.
Sa holiday pay advisory sa buhatan alang sa mga pribadong kumpanya, nakalatid nga bayaran pa gihapon og kapareho ang kinatibuk-ang sweldo sa mga dili mosulod sa trabaho sa Independence Day.
Kun mosulod usab ang empleyado sa maong petsa, makadawat kini og doble sa regular nga suholan alang sa unang walong oras ug dugang nga 30% sa hourly rate kun mag-overtime kini.
Kun matunong sa day off sa empleyado ang Hunyo 12 ug musolod pa gihapon kini sa trabaho, kinahanglan siyang hatagan sa kumpanya og umentong 30% sa iyang gi-doble nga daily rate.
Gawas pa niini ang dugang 30% sa matag oras nga overtime nga isulod sa empleyado.
Nanghinaot ang DOLE nga mosunod niini ang mga employers sa pribadong sektor.
Sa Biyernes, isaulog sa nasud ang 117th Independence Day. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 6, 2015 | Local News / Bohol Balita
Kumon K of C announced the list of students in the Advanced Student Honor Roll (ASHR) for the period up to February 2015. Awardees receive bronze, silver or gold medals if they advance ahead of their school level.
Students who are six months ahead of their school level in the Kumon program receive the bronze medal. Kumon students who are ahead at least two years of their school level receive the silver medal while those that are at least three years ahead of their school level receive the gold award.
