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Volume IX, No. 046
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
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Suspect dies, police hurt in anti-drug op By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
MANTICAO, Mis amis Oriental--A drug suspect was killed while a patrolman was wounded in a joint police anti-drug operation last Wednesday in Purok Paradise 2, Barangay Cabalantian this town. At dawn on July 10, Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) investigators conduct inventory on the items recovered from the crime scene agents of Misamis Oriental where a drug suspect was killed and wounded a patrolman in an early dawn operation on Wednesday (July 10) in Purok Paradise 2, Barangay Cabalantian, Manticao, Misamis Oriental. Left, the live in partner of a drug suspect (in Provincial Drug Enforce-
ment Unit (PDEU) and Manticao Municipal Police Station went to the house, where the suspect is renting with his live-in partner for three months now, located at the back of a national high school. The operation stemmed from the search warrant issued by Judge Renato Arroyo of the 10th Municipal Trial Circuit Court
Lawmakers file bills to hike teachers’ pay See POLICE, page 11
red shirt). Photos by Divina M. Suson
Lawyer in Misor gets life for drugs By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
A LAWYER from Balingasag, Misamis Oriental was meted life imprisonment last July 5 by a regional trial court here. The lawyer was identified as Michael Roa of Barangay 5, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental. Roa - along with three others - were arrested in November 10, 2016 at his residence by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on the basis of a search warrant issued by Gingoog City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 43 Judge Mirabeaus Undalok. During the search, Roa and his companions Justine Mae Pundavela, John Rey Roa and Porferio Roa Jr. yielded one big plastic sachet, four medium-size plastic sachets, two elongated plastic sachets, two small plastic sachets and three open plastic sachets all containing white crystalline substance that was determined by the PDEA regional laboratory on the same day as the illegal substance methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu). In its 17-page decision See LAWYER, page 11
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NEW lawmaker in the House of the Representatives and Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon have proposed to raise the basic salary of all public elementary and high school teachers to P30,000 regardless of their length of service. Rep. Precious HipolitoCastelo (2nd District, Quezon City) made the proposal through House Bill 1020. Hipolito-Castelo underscored that the country’s public school teachers are underpaid and undervalued, despite the Constitution stipulating that there must be the “highest budgetary priority to education and the guarantee that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available
talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment.” Citing a growing bipartisan support for the measure, Drilon has expressed optimism that the increase in the salaries of public school teachers will finally make it through 18th Congress as he authored Senate Bill no. 19 which also seeks to set the entry-level See BILLS, page 11
DepEd works toward equitable, sustainable pay hike THE Department of Education (DepEd) has reaffirmed its commitment to work toward an equitable and sustainable salary increase for all teachers, amid the wide disparity between the basic salaries of teachers in public and private schools in the country. A study by Dr. Rosario Manasan, using data from the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) Labor Force Survey in 2016, showed that on the average, public school teachers earn 71% more
than private school teachers. The biggest salary gap between public and private school teachers can be seen in the then Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) at 158%. The same study noted that salaries in public school are “more stable and constant” across regions compared to private schools. The significant difference between the pay of public and private school teachers is just one of the
many fiscal impact that need to be considered and studied in determining the appropriate increase in compensation. However, Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones remained committed to uplifting the welfare of teachers and to working toward a pay hike that will help improve the economic condition not just of teachers but of government personnel in other sectors as well. /deped.gov.ph
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