MINDANAO DAILY T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E LO P M E N T
Volume VI, No. 124
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Oro dads to scrutinize proposed P5b 2017 budget By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
Hiscom to break ground for new museum building Forum Kagay-anon 390 kicks off today
By Mike Baños, Editor at large
THE Cagayan de Oro Historical and Cultural Commission (Hiscom) will be holding a two-day event this week to mark the formal launching of a decade-long celebration of the 4th Centennial of the city’s founding as a settlement. “Forum Kagay-anon 390 is a 10-year program that will usher in the fourth centennial of the founding of the city’s original
settlement in the Barangay 1 area,” said Dr. Erlinda M. Burton, Hiscom chair. “We are inviting our stakeholder-volunteers to actively participate in these events, as well as our residents.” Forum Kagay-anon 390 kicks off today (October, 27 2016) with a one-day Tabo sa Kabilin at Gaston Park. “This will be a market place for our cultural heritage and for sale will be pictures, handicrafts, See MUSEUM, page A7
The present museum of Cagayan de Oro City.
XU grad ranks 9th in CPA board exam Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan’s March 2016 summa cum laude graduate Marika Calagos Tan landed on the ninth highest spot in the October 2016 Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensure examination. Tan garnered a passing rate of 92.17% and shared the top 9 place with five other takers from other schools. After 59 out of 103 examinees successfully took the CPA board exam, XU reaped a passing rate of 57.28%, against the national passing rate of 36.48%. “I am very pleased to inform the community that in the October 2016 Certified Public Accountant Licensure Examination, XU had an examinee who garnered the 9th highest place. Congratulations to
Marika Tan and all our new XU CPAs!” said XU president Fr. Roberto C. Yap SJ in his message to the academic community. “We thank School of Business and Management dean Dr. Ruth Love V. Russell, Accountancy Department chairperson Estela S Ganas, and the faculty and staff of SBM for their guidance and support for our students,” he added. The Professional Regulation Commission announced on Thursday (October 20) that only 5,249 out of 14,390 passed the exam conducted by the Board of Accountancy in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, and Tacloban earlier this month. press release
CAGAYAN de Oro City--The local august body here would start deliberating the proposed whooping PHP 5 billion 2017 budget of the city, Vice Mayor Raineir Joaquin Uy said here. He said that City Mayor Oscar Moreno has submitted the proposed PHP 5 billion budget for both the General Fund and Special Account/Operation of the city’s economic enterprises in the amounts of PHP 4,621,842,141 and PHP 378,157,859, respectively. Uy said that out of the PHP 5 billion budget, 32-percent or PHP 1.60 billion is earmarked for General Public Services, which would be used for programs that would promote order and public
Mayor Oscar Moreno
safety and for the Judiciary, for administrative overhead and for the regulatory functions of the city. Another 31 percent or PHP 1.289 billion would be allotted See budget, page A7
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