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How is the situation now? Dream still no hdtv?

Are there other tv satellite providers servicing bohol? Gsat ?

PLDT finished the fiber network on Bohol. What does it mean? TV signal or internet broadband soon?

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

A HIGH-PROFILE German fugitive wanted for a string of fraud of cases in his country was recently arrested by the Bureau of Immigration (BI).

Martin Otto Albert Kistner, 59, was arrested by the bureau's intelligence operatives at a beach resort in Barangay Pulangyuta, Dimiao, Bohol last October 7. He is now detained at the BI Detention Center in Bicutan, Taguig. ...........

Read more: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2013/10/09/german-fugitive-nabbed-bohol-307672

Do you have permission to copy this pictures from cebuanagirls.com ??

I am not going to argue. RThe facts are there.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0PacXNClUQ#

Hopefully the Roman Catholic Church in The Philippines will realize this . It has billions invested in BPI, Philex, San Miguel etc.

Theft, robbery top crimes in Bohol

March 31, 2013 10:41 am

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, March 30 â€" Theft and robbery cases consistently topped the crime statistics in the city prompting the authorities to call for a multi-sectoral approach to maintain peace and order in the province.

In just a month, the Bohol Police Provincial Office (BPPO) recorded a crime volume of 177 of which 51.4 percent or 51 incidents were theft.

The higher incidence of theft and robbery compared to other crimes like in the nationwide trend had been linked to social problems (like poverty and drugs), which are now given attention by the different government agencies.

The total crime volume, however, was lower than the 272 recorded in the same period last year.

Theft, which also topped last year’s crime statistics, reached 139 in February last year; followed by robbery with 49 incidents but dropped to 36 incidents in the same period this year or 36.28 percent of the total volume.

Cases of physical injuries also dropped to 16 or 16.13 percent as against the 21 recorded in February last year.

Fourth on the list of crimes, carnapping increased to 10 cases this year from eight cases recorded last year of an appreciation of 10.8 percent to the total crime volume.

Homicide also increased from seven incidents in February last year to nine at the same period this year.

Murder, on the 6th spot, decreased from six incidents in February last year to five this time.

Index crimes decreased from 235 in February 2012 to 127 this year; while non-index crimes increased from 37 to 50 incidents.

In behalf of Police Provincial Director Constantino Barot Jr., Police Chief Inspector George Cañaâ€"operations division chief of BPPOâ€"reported this to the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting on March 13 in the town of Trinidad.

Caña attributed the 35-percent reduction in the crime volume to the Comelec checkpoints jointly undertaken with the local police and increased police visibility in time of the upcoming elections.

However, Caña noted the consistent increase of non-index crimes from 29 cases in December last year to 34 in January and 50 in February.

Governor Edgar Chatto and Barot had earlier explained that increase of index crimes indicated more proactive accomplishment wherein the cops go out of the police station and pursue criminals before crimes happen.

In the drive against illegal drugs in February, the police conducted two operations which resulted to the arrest of two suspects and filing of two cases in court. During the operations, authorities confiscated a total of one gram of shabu and other illegal drug paraphernalia.

In the campaign against private armed groups and loose firearms, the BPPO reported 36 operations conducted last month resulting to the arrest of 11 persons and filing of nine cases in court. In the operations, authorities seized a total of 41 firearmsâ€"23 high-powered and 18 low-powered.

The accomplishment included the arrest of two armed men in Barangay Alegria, Catigbian who were among the six suspects in the bombing of the tower base of NGCP in the past year.

Also in the month of February, the police served 31 warrants of arrest where seven of them voluntarily surrendered.

The police also considered among the top accomplishment, the re-arrest of Exequiel Aniscalâ€"an escapee of Bohol District Jailâ€"in an operation in Misamis Oriental.(PNA)

GHG/ANGELINE VALENCIA/PJN


Source: http://balita.ph/2013/03/31/theft-robbery-top-crimes-in-bohol/

Seares: Some popes whose ring you would not kiss


Sun.Star Network Online - Your Source of Philippine Community News
Atty. Pachico A. Seares
Today, 10:42:47 AM

“Authoritative as a pope may be by his office, he is not impeccable as a man--he can sin, as can all humans.”

-- Garry Wills, “Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit”

MANY Catholics, mostly the young, have taken for granted that all popes were molded like John Paul II, Benedict XVI, or Francis.

John Paul (1978 to 2005) was “moral voice of our time.” Benedict (2005 to 2013) was “courageous prophet of peace.” And Pope Francis has embraced tenets of poverty and
simplicity.a

Not all past popes were poster guys of virtue and good deeds.

Pope Julius II had syphilis, threw orgies, and sired a child with his sister. Alex VI held a “Joust of the Whores” in which 50 women sat and naked at his dinner table. A number of popes were known for corruption, extravagance, child abuse, incest, rape, adultery, or homosexuality (one slept with a male ambassador to the Vatican).

Those were the times:

--When power and wealth of the church rested on one man, with no stiff rules to choose Christ’s vicar or how he’d govern.

--When church members had no means of redress and were cowed by threat of hell.

--When church power encroached on government, with no force outside Vatican to temper its might: intimidated press and awed lay groups; no leaks and no pesky social media to shake the pope.

Good fortune

Most young Catholics aren’t aware of past excesses. Catechism classes didn’t include Vatican scandals.

Reading about past papal sins, younger Catholics should appreciate their fortune and blessing in having Pope Francis as church leader.

[paseares@sunstar.com.ph]

Priests violating secrecy of confessions â€" Lagman


By Jess Diaz (The Philippine Star) | Updated March 18, 2013 -

MANILA, Philippines - Some Catholic priests are violating the secrecy of confessions if the claim of a Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) official is true, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said yesterday.

Lagman, one of the authors of the Reproductive Health (RH) Law, was commenting on the statement of CBCP executive secretary Fr. Melvin Castro that “many priests had noticed a general trend among young Catholics to seek forgiveness through confession for using artificial contraceptives.”

“Thanks, but no thanks for attributing to my RH advocacy the ‘general trend’ of young people confessing their ‘sin’ of using artificial contraceptives after they had been supposedly ‘reawakened’ by the Church hierarchy’s opposition to the RH bill,” the Albay congressman said.

He said if Castro’s statement is true, this means that some priests are “violating the sacramental seal of confession” to revive a “lost campaign” against the RH bill, which is now Republic Act No. 10354.

“This revelation of penitents’ confessions is a blatant violation of the centuries-old Church injunction for confessors not to betray or disclose both the subject of the confession and the identity of the penitents,” he said.

“Even the Rules of Court of the Philippines (Rule 130 Section 24, paragraph D) considers the penitent’s confession as an absolute privileged communication,” he said.
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“The sacramental seal is inviolable. The maximum penalty for its violation is excommunication according to Canon Law,” Lagman said.

He pointed out that if the unnamed priests quoted by Castro deny his statement, then the CBCP executive secretary “is again engaging in malevolent propaganda to further demonize the RH Law.”

“It must be underscored that the overwhelming majority of Catholics, as documented in repeated national surveys, favored the enactment of the RH Law, which includes contraception by choice,” he said.

Some Church leaders have used the ongoing election campaign to attack RH Law authors among senatorial candidates from both the administration and the opposition.


Source: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/03/18/920994/priests-violating-secrecy-confessions-lagman

Woman abused by Pinoy priests pins hope on new Pope


By Steve Angeles ABS-CBN North America Bureau
Posted at 03/13/2013 10:35 AM | Updated as of 03/13/2013 10:35 AM

CARSON, California - Growing up, Rita Milla described herself as a loner, with plans to enter the convent and become a nun. But as a 16-year-old parishioner at Saint Philomena Church in Carson, California, she was the center of a clergy sex abuse scandal, eventually dubbed "Snow White and the Seven Priests" in the 1980's.

Seven Filipino priests, led by Father Santiago Tamayo, sexually abused her. She became pregnant and bore the child of one of the priests, Father Valentine Tugade.

Milla went through years of therapy, became a medical assistant, and won a half million dollar settlement in 2007.

She raised her daughter Jackie, which DNA tests confirmed was fathered by Tugade.

She has since married, and now has a son as well as three grandchildren, but painful memories resurfaced when the Los Angeles Archdiocese released documents regarding church abuse.

"I had always thought I had been doing better than I actually was when the documents came. I read them and it kind of set me back and I became depressed again. It brought up a bunch of bad memories," she said.

Documents show letters from church officials, including former Los Angeles archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahony and her abusers, discussing ways to cover up the scandal. At one point, she was encouraged to get an abortion.

She gave birth in the Philippines (Milla's ethnicity is uncertain, contrary to the headline on Balitang America that identified her as Filipino.â€"ed).

She returned to the US and filed her lawsuit against Tamayo and the other priests.

"It was in the Philippines that I broke free from Father Tamayo and the priests. It was there that I felt I was going to die and I almost did die there. I had a lot of time to think far away from him and realize that nobody else should go through this. That gave me the anger or the strength to come back and denounce them," recalled Milla.

Milla is no longer Catholic, but continues to monitor the Catholic church as a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). With the papal conclave scheduled to begin on Tuesday, she's hoping to see a new pope that can address past and present clergy abuse issues, while preventing future incidents from occurring.

"I'm hoping that the new pope will have the courage to clean house, to actually go after the bishops that have hidden all these priests," she said.

"But if (the next pope) is being voted in by Mahony and all these other cardinals that have problems, their own problems, more than likely it’ll be more of the same," she explained.

Despite being stripped of his public duties, Mahony remains a cardinal in good standing and part of the conclave. He went to Rome despite thousands of petitions urging the Vatican to exclude him from the conclave.

Milla had joined members of SNAP in Rome to protest Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

While she fights for others, she has moved on from her own past. Two of the abusers, Father Angel Cruces and Tamayo both died, with Tamayo publicly apologizing to Milla before his death.

The whereabouts of the other priests, including Tugade, remain unknown.


Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/03/13/13/woman-abused-pinoy-priests-pins-hope-new-pope

Sex abuse victims list ‘dirty dozen’ papal candidates


Agence France-Presse
7:57 am | Thursday, March 7th, 2013


CHICAGOâ€"Clergy sex abuse victims released a “dirty dozen” list of potential papal candidates Wednesday and urged the Catholic Church to “get serious” about protecting children, helping victims and exposing corruption.

“We want to urge Catholic prelates to stop pretending that the worst is over regarding the clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis,” said David Clohessy, director of the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP.

“Tragically, the worst is almost certainly ahead.”

The organization cited a dozen cardinals from the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Italy, Australia, Czech Republic, Canada, Argentina and Ghana accused of protecting pedophile priests and making offensive public statements.

They are all considered to be contenders to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who was criticized for his handling of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the church in the United States and Europe.

SNAP also opposes electing any member of the Roman Curia, the administrative branch of the Holy See.

“We feel no current Vatican ‘insider’ has the will to truly ‘clean house’ in the Vatican and elsewhere,’” Clohessy said in a statement.

“Promoting a Curia member would discourage victims, witnesses, whistleblowers and advocates from reporting wrongdoing.”

The blacklist included: Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana; Cardinal Tarsicio Bertone of Italy; Cardinal Dominik Duka of Czech Republic; Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico; Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras; Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York; Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington; Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston; Cardinal Angelo Scola of Italy; Cardinal Leonardo Sandri of Argentina; Cardinal George Pell of Australia; and Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec, Canada.

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/369621/sex-abuse-victims-list-dirty-dozen-papal-candidates

Why Pope Resigned
Cardinal Tagle Urges Faithful To Pray For Pontiff



Manila Bulletin February 13, 2013, 7:32pm

VATICAN CITY (New York Times) â€" Just days after Pope Benedict XVI returned from a 2010 trip to Britain where he met the queen and mended fences with the Anglicans, prosecutors in Rome impounded $30 million from the Vatican Bank in an investigation linked to money laundering.

In May, soon after the Pope made an address on the priesthood, chastising those who sought to stretch the church’s rules and calling for “radical obedience,” Vatican gendarmes arrested Benedict’s butler on charges of theft after a tell-all book appeared, based on stolen confidential documents detailing profound mismanagement and corruption inside the Vatican.

Benedict had hoped that his papacy would rekindle the Catholic faith in Europe and compel Catholics to forge bonds between faith and reason, as he so loved to do.

But after a seemingly endless series of scandals, the 85-year-old who so ably enforced doctrine for his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, seemingly came to understand that only a new pope, one with far greater energies than he, could lead a global church and clean house inside the hierarchy at its helm. In the end, Vatican experts said, he decided he could best serve the church by resigning, a momentous decision with far-reaching implications that are still not fully understood.

“It wasn’t one thing, but a whole combination of them” that caused him to resign, said Paolo Rodari, a Vatican expert at the Italian daily newspaper Il Foglio. Clerical sex abuse scandals battered the papacy relentlessly, erupting in the United States, Ireland and across Europe, all the way to Australia.

But the most recent, the scandal involving the butler, “was a constant drumbeat on the pope,” he said, hitting close to home â€" literally where the pope lived. In the end, Mr. Rodari said, the message was, “I can’t change things, so I will erase everything.”

While the pope clearly has been losing strength in recent years, some Vatican experts saw Benedict’s decision less as a sign of frailty than one of strength that sent a clear message â€" and a challenge â€" to the Vatican prelates whose misdeeds he had struggled to rein in: No one is irreplaceable, not even the pope.

Even the Vatican acknowledged this. “The pope is someone of great realism,” the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said on Tuesday. “And he knows very well what the problems and the difficulties are.”

Father Lombardi added: “I think this decision sends many messages to all of us, of humility, courage, of wisdom in evaluating one’s situation before God.” He said the resignation could “open the door for a potential wave of resignations” â€" including from within the administrative body known as the Curia, Massimo Franco, a political columnist at the Corriere della Sera daily newspaper and an expert in relations between Italy and the Vatican, wrote on Tuesday.

Pope’s Pacemaker

A weak manager further weakened by age â€" the Vatican said for the first time on Tuesday that the pope had a pacemaker â€" Benedict apparently no longer felt equal to the task of governing an institution that had lacked a strong leader for over a decade, ever since John Paul II began a slow descent into Parkinson’s disease.

Tagle: Pray For Pontiff

With these developments, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle urged the Filipino faithful “to pray for the Holy Father as he devotes the coming years at the service of the Church through a life of prayer.”

“His paramount desire is to promote the greater good of the Church. We know that the Papal ministry is not an easy task. So we thank Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected Pope at the rather advanced age of 78, for selflessly guiding the Church these past eight years with his teaching, simplicity and gentleness,” the 55-year-old Manila Archbishop said.

Scandal-Marred Trip

It was another scandal-marred trip, this one to Mexico and Cuba in March, that seems to have finally persuaded Benedict to consider the idea of stepping aside, Vatican officials said.

The visit to Mexico was haunted by the specter of the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the Mexican founder of the Legionaries of Christ, a powerful and deeply conservative religious order with close ties to John Paul’s papacy. Before he died in 2008, Father Maciel was found to have raped seminarians, fathered several children and engaged in drug abuse.

Throughout the visit, victims’ groups and other advocates organized news conferences and other events to call attention to what they saw as the church’s dismal record on sexual abuse, even though Benedict, as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal officer, had reopened an investigation into Father Maciel that ultimately disclosed his double life. But he failed to address the issue in Mexico, upsetting victims’ groups there and around the world. When he became pope, Benedict knew of what he spoke, but he struggled to make the mighty wheels of a 1,000-year-old bureaucracy turn smoothly.

Benedict’s first missteps were seen as problems of communications. When in 2006 he quoted a Byzantine emperor saying Islam had brought things “evil and inhuman,” remarks that helped provoke riots in which several people died, the Vatican said his words had been misinterpreted. Clearly pained, he visited Turkey as a way to make amends.

In 2009, when Benedict lifted the excommunication of four schismatic bishops, one of whom had denied the scope of the Holocaust, the Vatican â€" and the pope â€" said the gesture was aimed at healing a rift in the church, not at offending. Officials also admitted they had failed to use the Internet to research the bishop’s views.

But later that same year, when the Vatican shocked many, including the archbishop of Canterbury, by announcing a new structure to welcome traditionalist Anglicans back into Catholicism, it became clear that the crisis of communications might in fact be a crisis of governance.

The Vatican official then in charge of the church’s relations with Anglicans, Cardinal Walter Kasper, said he had not been informed of the new structure, which had been announced in an impromptu news conference by a different Vatican office when he was out of town.

As a theologian intent on making overtures to the more traditionalist elements of the church, and lacking John Paul’s charisma, Benedict was bound to ruffle some feathers. But the fatal flaw of his papacy, Vatican experts say, and a leading cause of the scandals and missteps, is that he did not choose the right deputies to make the institution run well.

“The daily running of the shop is in such disarray because he doesn’t consult with anybody,” said Robert Mickens, a Vatican expert for The Tablet, a London-based Catholic weekly.

“The major problem of this pontificate is his choice of Bertone as secretary of state, and his insistence in keeping him there,” he added, referring to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. “This has angered and alienated people. He put a non-diplomat in the office that deals mostly with people who were trained to be diplomats, and he’s not very diplomatic.”

Vatican experts speculate that the scandal over the butler leaking confidential information was part of a complex power battle within the Vatican by factions that wanted to undermine Cardinal Bertone, a canon lawyer and a former archbishop of Genoa.

In January 2012, letters emerged in the Italian news media and later a book, “Your Holiness,” in which a high-ranking Vatican official said he had discovered corruption and mismanagement in the awarding of construction contracts and said that Cardinal Bertone had been influenced by Italian political circles.

In a letter, the official, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, then the second-ranking official of the part of the Curia that administers Vatican City, implored both Benedict and Cardinal Bertone to allow him to stay in a job overseeing the Holy See’s financial affairs. Instead, Benedict transferred Archbishop Viganò to become the papal nuncio, a diplomatic post, in Washington.

And he stood by Cardinal Bertone even after the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested in May 2012 on charges he took confidential documents that wound up in the book. In October, Mr. Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest in the Vatican, but over the Christmas holidays, Benedict pardoned him.

Mr. Franco wrote in Corriere della Sera that Benedict was believed to be distraught by a secret report compiled by the three cardinals that the pope had appointed to investigate the leaks scandal.

As the scandals piled up, it was clear that the pope was increasingly tired, his voice strained, his face drained. But although the resignation was related to a series of painful personal defeats, Benedict’s act was expected to resonate through history.

“It’s revolutionary,” said Eamon Duffy, a professor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge. “He’s sweeping away the mystical in favor of the utilitarian: That being a pope is a job, and the pope must be in the condition to do the job.” (With a report from Christina I. Hermoso)

source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/393906/why-pope-resigned#.URy2sX0xOOw

And how about the situation that gay live together in a way which is not different from married?

This morning a dead body was discovered floating along the shoreline in Garcia Hernandez. The body is transported to a funeral home. No further details are known.

Bohol Rep. Erico Aumentado dies
ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 12/26/2012 8:44 AM | Updated as of 12/26/2012 1:39 PM

MANILA, Philippines â€" Bohol 2nd District Representative Erico Aumentado passed away on Christmas Day.

Rica Dela Cuesta of the Public Information Office of the House of Representatives said Aumentado died past 8 p.m. Tuesday due to cardiac arrest. He was 72.

The Lower House is now preparing for the necrological services for the congressman which will be held on Thursday, December 27, 2012.

At the time of his death, Aumentado served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges and has authored and sponsored 96 House Measures. - report from Jon Ibanez, dzMM

Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/12/26/12/bohol-rep-erico-aumentado-dies

Pope: Gay choices destroy human 'essence,' threaten world peace

VATICAN CITY â€" The pope pressed his opposition to gay marriage Friday, denouncing what he described as people manipulating their God-given identities to suit their sexual choices â€" and destroying the very "essence of the human creature" in the process.

Benedict XVI made the comments in his annual Christmas address to the Vatican bureaucracy, one of his most important speeches of the year. He dedicated it this year to promoting traditional family values in the face of vocal campaigns in France, the United States, Britain and elsewhere to legalize same-sex marriage.

In his remarks, Benedict quoted the chief rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim, in saying the campaign for granting gays the right to marry and adopt children was an "attack" on the traditional family made up of a father, mother and children.

"People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being," he said. "They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves.

"The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned," he said.

It was the second time in a week that Benedict has taken on the question of gay marriage, which is dividing France and scored big electoral wins in the United States last month. In his recently released annual peace message, Benedict said gay marriage, like abortion and euthanasia, was a threat to world peace.

After the peace message was released last week, gay activists staged a small protest in St. Peter's Square.

Church teaching holds that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered," though it stresses that gays should be treated with compassion and dignity. As pope and as head of the Vatican's orthodoxy watchdog before that, Benedict has been a strong enforcer of that teaching. One of the first major documents released during his pontificate said men with "deep-seated" homosexual tendencies shouldn't be ordained priests.

For the Vatican, though, the gay marriage issue goes beyond questions of homosexuality, threatening what the church considers to be the bedrock of society: a family based on a man, woman and their children.

In his speech, the pope cited Bernheim as lamenting how a new "philosophy of sexuality" has taken hold, whereby sex and gender are "no longer a given element of nature that man has to accept and personally make sense of: it is a social role that we choose for ourselves, while in the past it was chosen for us by society."

He said God had created man and woman as a specific "duality" â€" "an essential aspect of what being human is all about."

Now, though, "man and woman as created realities, as the nature of the human being, no longer exist. Man calls his own nature into question. From now on he is merely spirit and will."

The Vatican's opposition to gay marriage has been falling largely on deaf ears. The largely Roman Catholic Spain legalized same-sex marriage under then-Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Three U.S. states approved same-sex marriage by popular vote in November elections. Earlier this month, the British government announced it will introduce a bill next year legalizing gay marriage, though it would ban the Church of England from conducting same-sex ceremonies.

In France, President Francois Hollande has said he would enact his "marriage for everyone" plan within a year of taking office last May. The text will go to Parliament next month. But the country has been divided by vocal opposition from religious leaders, Bernheim prime among them, as well as some politicians and parts of rural France.

The Socialist government's plan also envisions legalizing same-sex adoptions. Benedict quoted Bernheim as denouncing the plan, saying that it would mean a child would essentially be considered an object people have a right to obtain.

"When freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God," Benedict said.

Source: http://news.msn.com/world/pope-gay-choices-destroy-human-essence-threaten-world-peace

Tagbilaran official shot dead


Cebu Daily New| Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

A barangay captain of Tagbilaran City in Bohol was shot dead Monday afternoon.

Marcelo Epe, alias Amar, of barangay Tiptip died on the spot due to gunshot wounds on the different parts of his body.

A report by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Bohol said that Epe, together with barangay secretary Jebb Telmo and messenger Gaciano Sibalos Jr., were having snacks at a barbecue stand in front of a basketball court when the two suspects on a motorcycle suddenly appeared and the back rider shot the victim several times.

Recovered from the crime scene were six spent shells of caliber .45, two spent bullets and a slug.

Personnel of the Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) declared Epe dead on the spot.

Chief Inspector Rene Kyamko, CIDG-Bohol head,  said they were still determining the motive of the killing. Police are looking into a political angle.

Kyamko said they were coordinating with the Bohol Provincial Police Office and the victim’s family to fast track the investigation.

Epe reportedly has no enemy in the area. /CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

Bohol village chief held for drugs


Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:53 am | Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

The head of Barangay (village) Poblacion in Buenavista town was detained after he was caught possessing illegal drugs worth P920,000 in a raid Friday night.

Alexander Mata, 45, told policemen that he had worked as a middleman in illegal drug transactions. “Times are hard. I have been sending children to school,” Mata told reporters.

Supt. Paul Labra, chief of Regional Intelligence Division of Police Regional Office in Western Visayas, said Mata’s area of distribution included Bohol and some parts of Cebu. Chito O. Aragon, Inquirer Visayas

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/306158/bohol-village-chief-held-for-drugs

Dear members,

Just want to know which Cable TV operator services Dimiao, which (HDTV) programs are broadcasted and the montly fee. If there is no HDTV what's next best Cignal or Dream satellite?

Thanks in advance

Ok, now its clear. But why you want to pay 1000 dollars a month, while the normal starting salary would be like 2000 pesos?

Do you know that workers who are hired by foreign employers without the intervention of licensed recruitment agencies and are deployed undocumented and without protection are Illegal Recruiters

See http://www.poea.gov.ph/air/modus.htm

What is the name, address en telephone number of the agency and is this agency accredited by the POEA?

Where in Tagbilaran is borax powder for sale?

Belgian hacked to death, burned in Bohol


GMA By DANIEL MANALO, GMA News July 25, 2012

A Belgian national Hendrik Steegmans was hacked to death in Danao in Bohol province, the Philippine National Police said Tuesday.

Steegmans’ partially burned corpse was found July 23 inside the Myrela Internet Café, which police suspect was set on fire in an attempt to hide the murder. ...................

Read more: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/266780/news/regions/belgian-hacked-to-death-burned-in-bohol

Red tide alert up in Bohol


By Jhunnex Napallacan
Inquirer Visayas
4:35 pm | Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

CEBU CITY, Philippinesâ€"The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources  office in Bohol has raised a red tide alert in the capital city of Tagbilaran.

Residents are warned against the gathering and eating shellfish from a section of Maribujoc Bay, particularly the waters between Tagbilaran City and the town of Dauis.

Read more:  http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/227287/red-tide-alert-up-in-bohol

Investment in (high) speed broadband will improve services in education and health sectors, offer the potential for substantial productivity improvement for businesses, create jobs and offer improved services and competition

What is the background that the adjacent municipalities Lila and Garcia Hernandez have cable broadband and Dimiao in between not??