Gov. Gwen: ‘Pasigarbo sa Sugbo’ festival sabotaged

[Mike J]

Only in Da Philippines.  

https://mb.com.ph/2023/8/28/gov-gwen-pasigarbo-sa-sugbo-festival-sabotaged

In front of thousands of spectators, a fuming Cebu Gov.  Gwen Garcia lambasted the company that was hired to provide the event LED walls and sound system.

On several occasions, dancing contingents had to stop in the middle of their performances on stage when the music suddenly stopped.

Garcia counted at least 15 stoppages – technical glitches that she described as sabotage.

“I’m calling it a sabotage because by the very fact alone that Mr. Alberca did not care to divulge that his own daughter was a candidate for Pasigarbo Festival Queen,” Garcia said in a press conference on Monday, August 28.

Representing the Kabkaban Festival of Carcar, Jhesidy Thea Alberca was named Pasigarbo Festival Queen.

Jhesidy is the daughter of the owner of the lights and sound system that the province contracted for the event dubbed as “Festival of the Festivals.”

At least 50 contingents coming from Cebu’s 44 towns and six component cities participated in the event, which was part of the province’s founding anniversary celebration.

The non-disclosure of the owner of the lights and sound system that his daughter was competing in the festival was unethical, Garcia said.

“That’s unethical to bleed suspicion by other people that the event was sabotaged,” Garcia said.

Carcar emerged as the biggest winner in competition as it ruled the ritual showdown and street dancing competition.  

The municipality of Liloan won the Best in Jingle Festival award while Minglanilla won the Best in Festival Costume and Best in Mayor’s Introduction awards.

Consolacion took home the Best in Decorated Van award.

The competition dangled multi-million cash prizes to the winning contingents.

In the press briefing, Garcia announced a recomputation of the results will be made because “the online voting was severely affected by the lapses.”

“I’m warning all the mayors that results may change,” Garcia said.

The governor pointed out that recomputing the results will make it fair to all the participants.

The competition started early Sunday morning and ended at around 3 a.m. on Monday.  

“There is no perfect decision but this decision will render fairness to all who have worked so hard,” said Garcia.

[Old55]

I feel bad for Jhesidy the daughter of Mr. Alberta the event sound system owner. Maybe innocent but will forever be tarnished by this incident. 

Gotta give Gwen credit for stepping in. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

 

"The competition started early Sunday morning and ended at around 3 a.m. on Monday."!!!  

[Mike J]

3 minutes ago, Old55 said:

I feel bad for Jhesidy the daughter of Mr. Alberta the event sound system owner. Maybe innocent but will forever be tarnished by this incident. 

Gotta give Gwen credit for stepping in. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

 

"The competition started early Sunday morning and ended at around 3 a.m. on Monday."!!!  

We did a round trip Moalboal to Cebu City on Wednesday.  When returning home the number of "contingent" cars, vans, buses, trucks, etc. was amazing.  There had to be a hundred of them traveling north to Carcar, each had a banner showing the origin city/town.  We were fortunate to be traveling south at the time.

[hk blues]

We only have to visit our local SM or similar when they are hosting events - the amount of money being spent by parents on costumes, lessons etc etc is extreme.  Meanwhile, we have a topic on the forum highlighting the extreme issues within the education system.  

[Mike J]

1 hour ago, hk blues said:

We only have to visit our local SM or similar when they are hosting events - the amount of money being spent by parents on costumes, lessons etc etc is extreme.  Meanwhile, we have a topic on the forum highlighting the extreme issues within the education system.  

It would be wonderful if the Philippines valued math, science, and reading as much as they do singing, dance, synchronized marching, etc.

[hk blues]

2 minutes ago, Mike J said:

It would be wonderful if the Philippines valued math, science, and reading as much as they do singing, dance, synchronized marching, etc.

Yep...this fixation with celebrity and stardom is not particularly healthy. Of course, this phenomena isn't unique to the Philippines but the unrealistic hope that many here have is strange.  Of course, this is partly (hugely) driven by the talent industry here which encourages parents and kids to think they have talent and need to exploit it and become famous.  

[Kingpin]

She mad

At least she didn't have to suffer through the traffic of her own province though...