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From the Civil Service Commission The Civil Service Commission (CSC) will be conducting the 2nd Career Service Professional and SubProfessional written examinations for this year on October 18. Application period will run from May 25 to September 3. Last May 3, more than 180,000 took the Career Service Examination Paper-and-Pencil Test. Passing the CSE is one of the basic requirements in applying for a position in government.  The CSE ensures that only competent and credible workers enter the public service. The examinations are open to individuals, regardless of educational attainment, who are Filipino citizens including those holding dual citizenship, at least 18 years old at the time of filing of application, and have not taken the same level of examination within three months before the date of examination. Applications should be filed in person at the CSC Regional Office (CSCRO), or at any of the concerned CSCRO’s Field Offices, where the applicant intends to...

Team Bogo Source: https://www.facebook.com/lgubogo THE Bohol Paddlers’ Association (BPA) Team A ruled the 200-meter Dragon boat exhibition matches last Saturday at the Polambato Wharf in Bogo City. BPA-A won the exhibition match in 50.84 seconds, beating Team Bogo (52.07) in the finals. Cebu City’s Grupo Habagat failed to make the finals after losing the semifinals to Bogo, finishing in 55.88 seconds to Bogo’s 54.33. Retired General Carlos Holganza, founder of the Cebu Dragon Boat Association (CBDA), expressed his satisfaction with the successful event. “I am happy how the event turned out. I can see that there is more interest now,” said Holganza. Four teams joined the event, including two squads from BPA. Holganza said they plan to hold another friendly dragon boat competition two months from now in Southern Cebu. “We will be discussing our plans with the Cebu Provincial Sports Commission (CPSC). We could possibly hold it at SRP Talisay City,” said Randy Su, Habagat Outdoor Equ...

Cebu First Dragon Boat Race to be Held on May 23 source: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/ (PNA) -- The first-ever dragon boat race in Cebu will be held on May 23 in Bogo City, Northern Cebu. “We have been planning about this a long time ago already,” said Randy Su, a commissioner of the Cebu Provincial Sports Commission (CPSC) in an interview here with the Philippine News Agency Saturday night. “This is one of our alternative sports program,” said Su, president of the Habagat Outdoor Equipment and organizer of the Carera Habagat Adventure Race. Local paddlers and would-be paddlers in Cebu were also invited to first join the two-day basic dragon boat clinic on May 21-22. The clinic will be conducted by a national coach from Manila and from the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation. “We also have invited two dragon boat teams from Bohol to play for exhibition races on May 23,” said Su, also a kayaker and mountaineer. The dragon boat event is part of the Bogo City’s fiesta celebrat...

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 By KEVIN A. LAGUNDA POLICE arrested two suspected members of a big-time robbery group in a drug bust in Barangay Banban, Bogo City last Tuesday night. The team led by Chief Insp. Richard Oliver, the city police officer-in-charge, caught Franklin Booc Araneta, 30; and Naice Velez Oporto, 34, at 8 p.m. Araneta and Oporto were allegedly cohorts of Joel Sumabong, who was charged in court for allegedly leading a bank robbery in Bogo City in 2005 but was eventually acquitted. Sumabong was arrested by the intelligence operatives of Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) in a buy-bust last January. “We are checking if they are involved in some past shooting and robbery incidents in Bogo City,” said Oliver in Cebuano in a phone interview. The suspects are level two drug pushers for they can allegedly dispose of 200 grams of illegal drugs per week. Click here to read full story.

Voters are required to submit themselves for validation for them to be able to vote in the upcoming 2016 Elections. Voter validation simply means the adding of a registered voter’s biometrics data into his existing registration record using the Voter Registration Machine (VRM) at the local COMELEC office.  As per REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10367, Validation is the process of taking the biometrics of registered voters whose biometrics have not yet been captured.   RA. 10367 provides “Voters who fail to submit for validation on or before the last day of filing of application for registration for purposes of the May 2016 elections shall be deactivated pursuant to this Act. (Section 7)” COMELEC spokesperson and director James Jimenez on his blog mentioned "...if you’re already a registered voter, the only way to make sure that your biometrics are in the the system (as they ought to be) is to have yourself validated...A person who is “deactivated” remains in the List of Voters b...

CEBU CITY, January 27 (PIA) --- Cement company APO CEMEX today turned over a P2 million school building to the municipality of San Remigio .  This is a concrete manifestation of a strong public-private partnership, said San Remigio Mayor Mariano Martinez. Nino Ybanez, San Remigio Information Officer,  said the turn over ceremony was done at the Training Center in Barangay Poblacion. At the same time, they also held the graduation of 30 San Remigiohanons from the “EXPERTO AKO” Masonry Skills Training. Ybanez said the 30 residents compose the first batch of the training participants that was purposely under the typhoon Yolanda assistance of Cemex. But for the formal masonry course, Ybanez said that Cemex and the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) will have to be finalized along with their PESO Manager Antonio Villamor. Apo Cemex is located in Barangay Tinaan, southern City of Naga.  It was originally called Apo Cement Co...

By Oscar C. Pineda Tuesday, January 27, 2015 THE municipality of Medellin, Cebu now has two roving nurses tasked to answer house calls and provide medical assistance to senior citizens in its 19 barangays, said Mayor Ricky Ramirez. Medellin has around 5,000 senior citizens, said Ramirez. The 2010 census placed its population at 50,000. “Mas nindot ni kay ang di kalakaw murag gi-door-to-door ang pag-atiman nila (This is good because it is like providing a door-to-door service to those senior citizens who can no longer walk),” said 66-year-old Angelina Mangubat, Office of the Senior Citizen Affairs (Osca) president and Barangay Dayhagon secretary. Ramirez said that the blood pressure and vital signs of the elderly will be regularly checked by the nurses, giving priorities to those who are bedridden and on wheelchairs. He revealed that the nurses will use two motorcycles. These nurses, who are also called mobile health care workers, are given barangay assignment...

Sinulog 2015 Livestream

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THE Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) will organize chapters in the City of Bogo and Toledo City this year to help professionalize local business organizations. It will be like a "Big Brother concept" as CCCI itself will reach out to these organizations. Ma. Teresa Chan, CCCI president, said that this will help the local business chapters become like CCCI so they could become drivers of growth in their own locality. They will also become local extension of the chamber.  Currently CCCI has a local chapter in Bantayan Island s which is created after super typhoon Yolanda hit the area.  CCCI planned to have a presence in the northern and southern part of Cebu Province so that local business organizations can benefit and participate in the private-public partnership (PPP) which can help achieve economic goals in the locality.  Sunstar reported that CCCI will be assisted by the NGO “WECan” in institutionalizing the formation of cluster business ...

PLDT to livestream papal visit in 33 public viewing sites By Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 15, 2015 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines - Leading telecoms and multimedia service provider Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) will livestream the visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines in 33 free public viewing sites beginning today until Monday. PLDT spokesman Ramon Isberto said the PLDT Group, including wholly owned subsidiaries Smart Communications Inc. and Sun Cellular, would establish viewing sites in select parishes and PLDT Sales and Service Centers (SSC) in and outside Metro Manila. ... Cebuanos can go to San Vicente Parish Church in Bogo , San Juan Nepomuceno Parish Church in San Remigio and the Cebu Cathedral. The St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Tagbilaran, Bohol and the Parish of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Estancia, Iloilo will also establish viewing site for their communities. Click here to read full article....

Screengrab from Sinulog website The Sinulog sa Kabataan is one of the highlights of the Sinulog Festival which is held a week before the Sinulog Grand Parade. Sinulog sa Kabataan sa Lalawigan 2015 Here is the complete list of winners of this year's Sinulog sa Kabataan sa Lalawigan. Elementary Division 1st place: Talisay City Central School 2nd place: Opao Elementary School/Tribu Mandauehanon 3rd place: City of Bogo 4th place: Pundok sa Nagahanon sa Sugbo, City of Naga 5th place: Maya Elementary School/Tribu Kandaya Best in Musicality: Opao Elementary School/Tribu Mandauehanon Best in Costume: Opao Elementary School/Tribu Mandauehanon Best in Street Dancing:  1st place: Opao Elementary School/Tribu Mandauehanon 2nd place: Talisay City Central School 3rd place: Pundok sa Nagahanon sa Sugbo, City of Naga Secondary Division 1st place: Tinubdan sa Kauswagan Cultural Troupe, Municipality of Tuburan 2nd place: Carcar City Di...