The Bogo Times

balita.ph February 6, 2013 CEBU CITY, Feb. 6 — Some 3,000 women in Central Visayas will benefit from two training programs which the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) launched in Mandaue City on Wednesday. TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva said the two training programs are the Sari-Sari Store Training and Access to Resources (S3TAR) and Cash for Training Project (C4TP). Its partners are Coca-Cola Export Corp. for the first program and the Department of Social Welfare and Development for the second program. S3TAR, which started in Palawan last year, is a campaign for women 18 years old and above who run small stores in Palawan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, National Capital Region, Cebu, Davao, Bacolod, Misamis Oriental and Cagayan. The program will provide basic entrepreneurial mentoring such as financial literacy training to 1,000 women sari-sari store owners in Bogo City , Balamban and beneficiaries of the Cebu Federation of ...

Written by MTLabarado    Saturday, 12 January 2013  Most outstanding legislative council in the province for the component city category. For its “ultimate contribution to the attainment of desirable socio–economic and environmental outcome” the Philippine Councilors League–Cebu Provincial Federation together with the Department of Interior and Local Government presented to the Bogo City Council the Local Legislative Award as winner in the Provincial Level for the component city category. The award recognizes the exemplary performance of sanggunians, particularly of cities and municipalities, for legislating measures that help build the foundation of meaningful local administration and development. The award criteria includes eff ectiveness of the Legislative Agenda and the legislative tracking system, availability of legislative documents, efficiency of performance of the sanggunian, and quality of office set-up and staff complement. ...