DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

A policeman participating in the PNP Special Counter-Insurgency Operation Unit Training allegedly committed suicide Sunday, while an assistant instructor of SCOUT was found dead in his room, at the Camp Herman Carballo training site in Barangay Nagbagang, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental, Monday.

Sr. Insp. Dexter Calacar, manager of the Regional Special Training Unit 7 of the PNP Region 7, identified the trainee as Police Office 1 Maxgen Paco, of SCOUT Class 30-12, who went home on a special pass Saturday, and was supposed to return to the camp Sunday.

However, Paco’s family told the training camp that the policeman died of a single gunshot wound between his eyes, in what police investigators claimed was possibly self-inflicted, or a result of accidental firing, Calacar said.

ALU-TUCP asking for P90
increase in daily pay
BY RENE GENOVE

The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines in Negros Oriental is petitioning for a P90 daily minimum wage increase, citing the wave of price increases in basic commodities and petroleum products.

Felizardo Calimpong of ALU-TUCP said they filed the petition at the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board despite the one-year ban under Republic Act 6727 or the Wage Rationalization Act.

The law mandates that no petition for wage increase may be entertained by the RTWPB within one-year from the date a wage order has last been implemented, except if there are supervening conditions.

P2.7B early wage hike
for gov’t workers OKd

President Benigno Aquino III yesterday moved the implementation of the fourth tranche of the Salary Standardization Law III to June 1, or a month ahead of schedule, the Department of Budget and Management said in its press release.

The fourth tranche will cover all salary and base pay increases for national government employees until December 31, 2012. The early release will be supported by an additional P2.7 billion that will be sourced from the 2012 General Appropriations Act, bringing the total budget for the fourth tranche to P21.7 billion, the DBM added.

The amount set for government-owned or controlled corporations and government financial institutions will be charged against their respective corporate funds; while the pay increase for local government units will be sourced from local government funds, the press release also said.

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