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Gov. Arthur C. Yap, through the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA), has come up with a first-of-its-kind solution to food sustainability and secured marketing of crop production with guaranteed higher price for farmers by implementing the Advanced Rice...

The Agricultural Rural Transformation- Integrated Community Based Dairy Project (ART-ICDP) is a new enterprise anchored on the Dairy Development of Bohol. It is spearheaded by the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian (OPV) First of its kind, the ART-ICDP has been...

The Province of Bohol simplified and unified its guidelines for sea and air travels for returning Boholanos and persons who are authorized to come/travel to the province via Executive Order No. 54 which allowed the resumption of all domestic commercial flights to...

A farmhand is shown acknowledging the support from the government which awarded the good performing people's organizations ((POs) under the INREMP in Bohol today. The POs mostly belong to the sectors of the farmers, who make food, and agro-forestry workers. Gov. Art...

Gov. Art Yap visits Loay and Duero today to turn over 10 kilos premium rice for displaced workers in the tourism sector. Loay which has the famous floating restaurant has 471 displaced workers who received the rice while the town of Duero has 168. Yap who feels for...

Gov. Art Yap is back for more for the people in Bien Unido. Bien Unido received more assistance and projects as Gov. Art turned over 1.2 million pesos worth of indemnity cheques as accident insurance to 105 farmers for the damages in their rice, corn and livestock...

Gov. Arthur Yap led the turnover of 3.8 kilometers of concrete barangay access road from Kagawasan to Caluasan in San Miguel town this morning. Prominent in attendance with the governor were Rep. Aris Aumentado, Board Member Frans Garcia and Mayor Virgilio Mendez, Jr....

Gov. Art Yap led the turn over of cheques to the beneficiaries of the PRDP sub-projects earlier at the Capitol today. Yap whose main goal is to establish food security in the province, allocated 20 millios pesos as counterpart fund for this PRDP project to provide...

Bohol Province is now branding its premium rice produced by the Boholano farmers themselves through the launching of its own brand “Sun Rice”, as one of the highlights of the Grand Harvest Festival in November 2020, in a shift of local staple agriculture to...

Gov. Arthur Yap has lamented why local guidelines to prevent COVID-19 appear to be treated contradicting certain national or regional policies. For him, the local protocols, including the provincial ordinance intensifying the precautionary measures to avert the...

BOHOL Province – The Department of Agriculture (DA)-Central Visayas turned over 20 units hand tractor complete with implement and 40 units water pumps with engine sets plus accessories costing about P6,199,699 million to 12 farmers’ associations from the...

Bohol Governor Arthur Yap encouraged the three major domestic airline companies serving the Bohol Panglao International Airport (BPIA) to resume their regular flights with cheaper fares to revive the tourism in the province. Yap addressed his plea to Philippine...

GOAL: PLASTIC-FREE BOHOL. Gov. Art Yap leads the coastal clean up in Doljo, Panglao this morning.With the governor were Panglao Mayor Nila Montero, Doer Escoto of Bellevue, PNP, Coast Guard, Panglao Association of Dive Operators, RCPI, SAF, Airport Police, BTPU, and...

Gov. Arthur Yap today stepped onto history in becoming the first governor to have set foot on the white sand of Sag island off Talibon in the Second District of Bohol. “It’s an honor to be the first governor to step on the white sand of Sag Island in Talibon and...

Bohol is acquiring not just a machine but a laboratory and a "solution" to COVID-19. This was clarified by ENDEC, Inc. Chief Executive Officer William Michael Johnson in a briefing to the provincial officials and mayors today. ENDEC is the supplier of the ...

Minors will have one more curfew-free day, making it three days a week for them once Bohol’s RT-PCR laboratory becomes operational. Gov. Arthur Yap announced this last Friday, saying the youth will just have to wait for the PCR lab that the provincial government is...

Bohol has surpassed by more than 560% its target number of returned locally stranded individuals (LSIs) for June.As of today, June 30, already 6,645 LSIs from different places of origin have gone back to the province. COVID-19 Technical Working Group spokesperson Dr....

Governor Arthur Yap has requested the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to slow down the pace of repatriation of locally stranded individuals (LSI) until the local government units (LGUs) are ready to accept them in...

Gov. Arthur Yap this morning inaugurated his administration’s first coin-operated neighborhood waterworks system in barangay Guinobatan, Trinidad. A P5 coin is fed/inserted into the machine and water flows from the faucet enough to fill up two containers with a total...

NO ONE LEFT ALONE. Gov. Art Yap emphasizes that no one is left alone in this difficult time. The governor makes sure that the constituents in the islands who might feel alone, being separated physically from the mainland (considering that the town of President Carlos...

Bohol’s first molecular laboratory at the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital is now on its finishing touches towards its targeted launching by middle of July. GCGMH chief of hospital, Dr. Mutya Kismet Tirol-Macuno, calculated that they would finish installing...

Panglao tourism lost an estimated P1.014 billion in total accommodation revenue in three to four months since February because of COVID-19, according to Gov. Arthur Yap. The leading island tourist destination in Bohol has 4,753 rooms in different resorts, hotels and...

The claims that the province has no ready COVID-19 test kits, most essentially those for RT-PCR method, are pure lies. Gov. Arthur Yap and the Bohol Inter-Agency Task Force (BIATF) said the province has a necessary allocation of 200 PCR test kits daily, in effect...

Gov. Art Yap got the support of the Regional Development Council (RDC)-7 full council for the three points he raised during the meeting this morning (June 1): 1) LGUs be allowed to borrow money from Land Bank of the Philippines and Development Bank of the Philippines...

Gov. Art Yap commended the Provincial Emergency Management Administration (PEMA), under the leadership of former provincial administrator Ae Damalerio, for shepherding Bohol during the critical first two months of the Covid era. The governor appreciated the many...

Gov. Arthur Yap has accepted the tougher challenge to Bohol being a model province under the "new normal" condition forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Boholanos have to brace for what Yap hinted to be even more inescapably extraordinary to their lives, economy, movement...

First, the governor sought support on his proposal the provincial government may avail of a loan from Land Bank of the Philippines or Development Bank of the Philippines and it would be passed on to small businesses who need the working capital. He is negotiating for...

As in past arrivals, the OFW returnees today were met at the airport and port and assisted by the different PEMA clusters doing their assigned tasks from biosecurity and documentation to ensuring their safety and convenience at their respective accredited quarantine...