By Aletha Jasmine C. Dela Cruz THE DEPARTMENT of Education (DepEd) has called on school officials to tighten their institution’s police security and surveillance due to the series of bomb threats that followed the blast in the Davao City Roxas Night Market.
“We also remind our school officials to intensify security and be extra vigilant to ensure the safety of our teachers, students, and personnel,” DepEd said in a statement issued via its official Facebook page last Sept.7.
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By Flora Aslyn Olympia THE NATIONAL Youth Commission (NYC) has opposed the proposal of Speaker of the House of Representatives Pantaleon Alvarez to abolish the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK).
In a statement posted on the Commission’s official Facebook page on Sept. 8, NYC Chairperson Aiza Seguerra said SK cannot be abolished because it is “a unique feature of Philippine democracy.” By Mary Noll Christine P. Caadyang and Pauline Faye V. Tria LAO PEOPLE’S Democratic Republic (PDR) Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith on Thursday extended his firm belief and support in the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2017 under President Rodrigo Duterte.
Sisoulith said amid the closing ceremony that Lao PDR will continue to cooperate with the Philippines’s ASEAN Chairmanship, the ASEAN Member States and external parties to strengthen the ASEAN Community. By Joelle Alison Mae P. Eusebio and Christine Mae L. Fusio PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte assumed on Thursday the chairmanship for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2017, vowing to highlight the organization as a model of regionalism and a global player.
Duterte, who is next in line in the alphabetical rotation of chairmanship based on Article 31 of the ASEAN Charter, asked other ASEAN leaders and dialogue partners for support to ensure "peace, stability, security, and growth" for the citizens while keeping the ASEAN united. By Annika Gwyneth M. Chua and Justine Kirk J. Santos A BILL filed on 2013 which will double the monthly base pay of public school teachers is still under talks in Senate after more than three years.
Senate Bill No. 61, also known as the “Act Upgrading the Minimum Salary Grade Level of Teachers from Salary Grade 11 to 19” is a bill passed by Sen. Sonny Angara on July 25, 2013 that aims to increase public school teachers’ minimum salary from approximately P18, 549 to P33, 859. |
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