24 April 2014- (Top, left) Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie delivers his remarks at the Cebuano Association’s (CAH) 29th Anniversary held at the Okinawan Cultural Center of Hawaii on April 21. (Top, Right) Vice Speaker John Mizuno addresses the audience, while CAH President Hernando Tan looks on. Bottom picture, left: Governor Abercrombie poses for pictures with the Filipino community. Bottom, right: Consul Roberto T. Bernardo and Mrs. Maria Janora M. Bernardo, pose with Governor Abercrombie.
The Cebuano Association of Hawaii, Inc., is an organization under the umbrella of the Congress of Visayan Organizations (COVO). The event celebrates the revitalization of COVO and CAH, and aims to strengthen the Filipinos as a political force in Hawaii. In his speech, Governor Abercrombie praised COVO’s leadership in unifying Filipinos of various regional origins, and paid homage to the fact that the first Sacadas to Hawaii in 1900s came from Cebu. END