The Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) jingle interpretative dance contest for the Barangay Secretaries in Guimaras enlivened the Culminating Ceremony of the 33rd Civil Registration Month (CRM) spearheaded by the Civil Registrar’s Association of Guimaras (CRAG).
“This is the first time that we held the jingle dance contest for the Barangay Secretaries in Guimaras, wherein they artistically and creatively interpreted the CRVS Jingle ‘Masasagot’,” Provincial Statistics Officer Nelida B. Losare said.
The contest, which featured Barangay Secretaries of Nueva Valencia and Buenavista, was held at the Nueva Valencia Municipal Hall on February 23, 2023.
Each group of participants portrayed the process of registering births, deaths, and marriages by relating the 33rd CRM theme PSA @ 10: Providing Efficient and Effective Civil Registration and Vital Statistics through Digital Transformation.”
“The Municipality of Buenavista was declared the winner and awarded a certificate of participation with a cash prize of Php5,000.00, while the Barangay Secretaries group of Nueva Valencia got the same certificate with a second prize of Php4,000,” Losare said.
The contest tested their creativeness and innovativeness in interpreting the CRVS jingle through dance moves with drama.
PSO Losare commended the five MCRs of Guimaras and their staff during her closing message for the successful conduct of various CRM activities: the opening and closing ceremonies hosted by Buenavista and Nueva Valencia, respectively; the Provincial Quiz Bee contest; and for the conduct of the mass weddings, the mobile registrations, and Tree Planting Activity.
“As we finally close the 33rd Civil Registration Month celebration, we are not closing the implementation of the Barangay Civil Registry System (BCRS) data banking, with the help of Brgy. Secretaries and Brgy. Registration Agents, we can easily identify the unregistered individuals, and the conduct of mobile registration, mass weddings, and data dissemination for 2023, as well as our social responsibility to protect the mother earth,” Losare said.
Losare further expounded that through various activities conducted in February, we enhanced people’s awareness of the importance of Civil Registration, aligned with the CRVS decade goal, which we could not achieve without the support, help, and commitment of our partners.
“With 100% BCRS implementation in all the Barangays of Guimaras province, I positively hoped to achieve the CRVS decade goal by the end of 2024, get everyone registered, tanan my birth certificate,” Losare said.
