San Isidro hitches into tourism bandwagon

By REY ANTHONY CHIU San Isidro local officials hitch to the tourism bandwagon but opt for low capital, low impact to the environment tourism. Considerably new to the stream, San Isidro packs an array of offers that could hook the serious environmentalist as well as...

Binay camp text brigade on for ‘2016’

Text messages promoting Vice President Jejomar Binay’s political profile have been sent to almost every Filipino whose cellular phone has been made known through an information arm of government agencies. The text brigade uses different globe numbers in disseminating “praise releases” for the vice president....

Boholanos want purok power’s noble mandate

Many Boholanos want the province’s poverty reduction approach through the Countryside Development Program: Purok Power Movement (CDP-PPM) achieve its noble goals. Many of the Local government unit (LGU) leaders down the barangay level support the “deep-penetrating” integrated development program of Gov. Edgar Chatto precisely because...

Carmen mayor insists politics taints ProTeam

A neophyte politician, stepping in the political arena as a mayor, takes early steps to the gubernatorial challenge by keeping her bailiwick all for herself and deprive the equity of the incumbent to penetrate the masses through the Prosperity Team (Pro-Team). Carmen Mayor Conchita Toribio-Delos...

New Bohol Airport in PNoy’s priorities

Ripe to rise into a learning place for tourism development initiatives (as groomed by the Department of Tourism), Bohol can expect a great deal of focused attention from the national government-on top of which is the timely implementation of the New Bohol Airport. In fact,...

Aumentado proposes alternative livelihood for illegal fishers

REP. Erico Aumentado has moved to provide alternative livelihood to alleged illegal fishers in the coastal towns of the 2nd district of Bohol to stop the destruction of the coral reefs and the marine ecosystem in the seawaters within the Danajon Double Barrier Reef (DDBR)....

Bryde’s whale returns

Just in time for their migration, Brydes Whale has been sighted calmly feeding off Pamilacan island in Baclayon town, a group of marine biologists and researchers report recently. Earlier reported as possibly extinct in Boholseas due to pressure in whale hunting in the late 1980s,...

Illegal fishing activities haunt Bien Unido, Getafe

Marine life must be abundant in the towns of Bien Unido andGetafein the second district, enough to lure illegal fishers from the neighboring provinces. Police Senior Inspector Jose Los Baños, chief of 703rd Maritime Office, confirmed that illegal fishing remains rampant in some municipal waters...

Solution to Mindanao power crisis proposed

The business group pounded hard on government to heed the call to implement measures to stabilize power supply inMindanaoby identifying hydro-power sources in the island and keeping the diesel plants to maintain the lower-power cost design. Newly reelected president of the Bohol Chamber of Commerce...

Proposed Bohol-Cebu Bridge endorsed for Korean assistance

THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has endorsed the proposed Bohol-Cebu Multi-Access Friendship Bridge to the Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (KEDCF). In his letter to Rep. Erico Aumentado (2nd District, Bohol), Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson said he wrote to KEDCF Director...