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BOHOL CAN’T GET LAX ON RABIES PROGRAM

Sunday 23rd of December 2012
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Dec. 23 (PIA) -- As the province garnered the country’s most innovative award in anti-rabies program, “getting complacent is the last thing on our list,” says Bohol Rabies Prevention and Elimination Program (BRPEP) action officer Dr. Maria Stella D. Lapiz. Now fast becoming a benchmarking destination for its successful implementation of the national law on rabies rabies prevention and elimination, Bohol is also basking in the local government limelight, after it earned the national Galing Pook recognition for innovative programs in 2011. But BRPEP action officer and Provincial Veterinarian Lapiz feared a setb...
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Gov issues EO to direct new Bohol tagline-use
TAGBILARAN CITY, Dec, 03 (PIA) -- Wanting to intensify tourism promotions for Bohol, Governor Edgar Chatto urges government and private companies in the provinnce to use the tagline "Bohol: heart of the islands." Chatto signed Executive Order 38, that detailed the need to adopt and use a slogan and logo for a quicker memory recall as well as easy branding for Bohol. The tagline, which Bohol launched in Manila in the presence of Department of Tourism officials last May, is Bohol: Heart of t...
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Feature: Keeping Balicasag Island pristine as dive-paradise in Bohol
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, May 13 (PIA) -- The local government unit of Bohol through its Socio-Economic and Environment Management (SEEM) cluster pushed for an agreement with the island stakeholders to keep Balicasag Island as pristine and as ideal as it was promised when it was declared a naval reservation. Balicasag Island, lying 10 kilometers southwest of Panglao has world class seascapes, which have been internationally recognized, making it a premier dive site. Since 1907, the American Gov...
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    May
    2012

    Bohol guv scores marine resource protection, conservation

    TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, May 11 (PIA) -- Bohol governor Edgar Chatto underscored the province’s resolve to protect and conserve its prime marine resources as key to sustainable eco-tourism program of Bohol by launching the “Coastal Restoration of Amazing Balicasag (CRAB) and Task Force Dolphin” programs. In his speech during the opening of the Month of the Ocean in Bohol on May 2, Chatto called on Boholanos to get “passionately involved” in the daunting task of protecting, developing ...
  • 30
    Apr
    2012

    Bohol crime volume up, but data says cops more pro-active

    TAGBILARAN CITY, April 30 (PIA) -- As in the last two months, crime volume in Bohol continues to rise at 8.5% average but police authorities said there is little to be alarmed of. Camp Dagohoy, Bohol police headquarters noted 246 crimes in January, which rose by 11% in February at 272 crimes reported. By March, police noted another 6% increase in crime volume, bringing up the total crimes as to 286 based on local police blotters. However, Police Provincial Director Constantino Barot downp...
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    Mar
    2012

    Chatto to BIPC: study tax Incentives to new players

    TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, March 24, 2012 (PIA) – Governor Edgar Chatto ordered the Bohol Investment Promotion Center (BIPC) to make feasibility studies for incentives to new fuel industry players getting to Bohol. Chatto’s order follows the argument that the entry of new players in the fuel industry here puts up more competition to the major fuel players whom consumers accuse of monopoly and price fixing. During the Consultative Forum on Oil Price in Region 7, the Department of Energy throu...
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