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| Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
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alternate road to airport yet, The new airport of international standards in Barangay Bagtic, Silay City, Negros Occidental, is expected to be inaugurated next month and to operate sometime in October, but an alternative access road has yet to be built raising fear of traffic bottlenecks along McKinley road that passes through two cemeteries. Gov. Joseph Maraņon yesterday said President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may attend the inauguration of the new airport of international standards next month.
"No date has been set but we are hoping
and expecting that the President will come to inaugurate the Silay airport," he
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GSIS officials pledge
to act on complaints of teachers BY GUILLERMO TEJIDA III Government Service Insurance System top officials yesterday assured that the complaints of government workers, particularly in the education sector against it shall be ironed out through regular dialogs between the agency and the Department of Education. In a closed-door conference yesterday, DepEd and GSIS officials agreed that a two-way solution could best remedy the plight of government employees, who have tagged the agency as "oppressive." "The members (of GSIS)
should not be penalized," Field Operations Group Senior Vice President Alex Valencerina
said after hearing the complaints of DepEd top-brass, including Schools Division
Supt. for Bacolod Dr. Milagros Gonzales, her assistant Dr. Luisitio Escalona,
and head of city secondary school principals, Jose Dayot. | ||||
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PROTEST RALLY TOMORROW The Alliance of Concerned Teachers - Negros along with other cause-oriented groups in Bacolod, called on all public school teachers and other government employees to join the May 31 protest against what they called the "inhumane and unconscionable" policies of the Government Service Insurance System in a press conference yesterday. The cause-oriented groups scored the GSIS for its failure to protect its members, and instead, have implemented oppressive laws and policies that rob members of benefits due them. ACT-Negros
chairperson Gilda Quiatchon said they have the support of Negros Occidental Schools
Division Supt. Eva Belicena and Bago Schools Supt. Mildred Garay in their protest
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