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November 21st, 2008
The results of the much-awaited petition filed by the City Government against the application of Bohol Light Company Inc. (BLCI) to recover franchise taxes paid to the national and local governments, will be known this week.
Commissioner Rauf Tan of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said that their ruling will be out on Bohol Light’s motion to charge in monthly billings some P36.5 million in franchise taxes to its consumers. Tan said monthly billings of Bohol Light consumers already bears the add-on charges of current franchise taxes the utility is paying to the national and local governments.
If Bohol Light’s motion is granted by the ERC, an estimated additional 16-centavos per kilowatt/hour will be charged to electric consumers. The charges represent P22.1 million paid by the company to the national government and P14.4 million to the local government from 2001 up to 2008. The cost recovery scheme will be spread over three years, according to Bohol Light.
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November 21st, 2008
At the Tagbilaran City Community Hospital, 35 patients ere evacuated when an air conditioning unit in the X-ray room caught fire. The fire happened at exaclty 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon on November 19, 2008 (Wednesday).
The staff of the said hospital helped to extinguish the fire as to avoid damage to the X-ray equipment. [...]
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November 21st, 2008
SPO4 Adriano John Backus, Head Police for Theft and Robbery Section, warns people to be careful since more cases are being reported in the past months. Backus adds that there are already gangs that they are doing surveillance on and they have observed that these gangs use the tiempo style to victimize. He [...]
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November 21st, 2008
Commission on Election (COMELEC) - Bohol is now on preparations for the receiving of the registration of new voters for the coming 2010 elections. The said registration will be from December 2, 2008 - December 15, 2009.
Atty. Eliseo Z. Labarya, Provincial Elections Supervisor, declares that they have started to pull-out old records of voters. Labarya [...]
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November 20th, 2008
Local officials of Carmen, Bohol recently visited Cebu City to solicit votes for Chocolate Hills for the New Seven Wonders of Nature, thus going to the Cebu City Hall and schools to ask for their help.
Carmen town councilor Primo Digao said Bohol representative almost toured the entire Philippines starting from Mindanao last April, Luzon last [...]
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November 20th, 2008
The water analysis of the City Drainage Outfall shows that waste water is within tolerable standards. However, the laboratory findings apparently left out a very critical component in establishing water quality, which is the level of coliforms. Likewise, the seawater fronting the City Port has not been classified by Department of Environmental and Nature [...]
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November 19th, 2008
A City Hall Official challenges the DYRD and Bohol Chronicle to tackle more on the fertilizer fund controversy. It is because the official is ignorant on the latest events of controversy. The official adds that is the media’s part to report since four of our Boholano officials are involved
The official keeps on attacking [...]
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November 19th, 2008
The Bureau of Internal Revenue has devised a way to stop establishments’ non-issuance of receipts. Under the leadership of New Revenue District Officer Marcelino Quito, BIR will give rewards to taxpayers who will report establishments that do not issue receipts. This is done so that people will be more enthusiastic in reporting such establishments. [...]
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November 19th, 2008
City Kagawad Djingo Rama awaits for the Commission on Audit (COA) the details of the Audit Report of the financial transactions of the city government for the year 2007.
Rama was told by Kagawad Oscar Glovasa, Chairman on the Committee on Appropriations, that he should push through with these questions through a Privilege Speech [...]
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November 19th, 2008
The public wants the 4 Boholano officials, involved with the controversial fertilizer fund, to give enlightenment as to why they chose only a few towns to benefit from the fund and not all towns of the Province.
Aumentado commented that the fund was directly run to the Department of Agriculture (DA) through the Regional and Provincial [...]
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November 18th, 2008
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) disclosed that there is a current job opening for 2,000 Muslim nurses in Saudi Arabian hospitals.
Datu Aladdin Ampatuan, OIC regional administrator, POEA-ARMM said that aside from nurses needed in Medina and Mecca, Saudi Arabia, there is also an unlimited job [...]
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