Bohol Sunday Post

BY APPELATE COURT

Suspend order of Dumaluan upheld

THE Court of Appeals (CA) Special 20th Division has lifted the temporary restraining order (TRO) on the suspension issued by the Visayas Ombudsman against Panglao Mayor Doloreich Dumaluan. On the basis of the CA decision, the mayor will have to serve his three-month suspension as meted out by the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas last December. Full story

RTC Judge Baluma reprimanded by SC

FOR ordinary people, it may a be lapse in judgment. But for a judge to miss it, the Supreme Court (SC) calls it gross and inexcusable ignorance of the law. With the spotlight trailed on him after lambasting the city government for its lack of concern for the youth, Judge Teofilo Baluma again is in focus with the surfacing of an SC decision penned March 23, 2004. Full story

Police files murder charges against 4 over Olayvar slay

TWENTY-seven days after receiving the order to seal the case against the assassins of erstwhile Hugpong sa Mag-uumang Bol-anon (Humabol) Chairman and Bohol Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Chairman Victor Olayvar, the task force assigned to handle the case filed murder charges against 3 notorious police characters and another case of accessory to murder to an “alleged” former member of the communist's New People's Army. Full story

Social workers call for media restraint in kid criminal reporting

The law also says the state shall ensure that children are dealt with appropriately by providing them a variety of disposition measures: care, guidance and supervision orders, counseling, probation, foster care, education and vocational training programs and other alternatives to institutional care. “Victims of circumstances and neglect, some children coming from broken if not impoverished families have started to adopt the life in a mad rat scramble, some literally clawing to get food to fill their stomachs. Full story

Ubay tops best Bohol markets

ASSERTING its pivotal role in anchoring trade and commerce in Northeastern Bohol , Ubay Public Market, which occupies a total land area of 2 hectares emerged as the best market in the province-wide Pambansang Pamilihan search for best markets in evaluations held recently. Full story

Jagna son talks about goat raising prospects

JAGNA – CONSIDERING its terrain and its most urgent need to wrestle poverty by the horn, the prospect of raising small ruminants appear to be a not a well trodden path for this place. And to goad people to look at this possibility, a respected son of Jagna, now Dr. Jonathan Niño Nayga gave a lecture on the prospects of animal husbandry as a tool in poverty alleviation for its residents. Full story

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