DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The Department of Budget and Management has approved the hiring of more than 60,000 new teachers, and of the funds for teachers being redeployed to schools with shortages, its press release said yesterday.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro said they have made available 61,510 new teacher items for fiscal year 2013 as the DepEd keeps pace with demand for teachers on account of increasing enrolment in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide, including Negros Oriental, the press release also said.

The new teachers’ items and the provision of redeployment allowance are in line with the government’s continuing effort to rationalize teacher placement in all public schools, Luistro said.

Army recruitment
ongoing in Visayas

The 3rd Infantry Division of the Philippine Army at Camp Macario Peralta, Jamindan, Capiz has scheduled the Philippine Army Aptitude Test Battery on May 20 to 21, at the Negros Oriental State University Main Campus 1 in Dumaguete City.

The PAATB will be held on May 22 at the Kabankalan City Gym; May 23 to 24 at the Pana-ad Stadium in Bacolod City; May 25 to 26 at the Western Institute of Technology in La Paz, Iloilo City; May 27 at the Dadivas Auditorium, CAPSU Main Campus in Roxas City, Capiz; May 28 to 29 at the 3ID covered court, Camp Macario B. Peralta, Jamindan, Capiz; and May 30 at the Banga covered court in Banga, Aklan.

Outreach mission helps
450 beneficiaries in Bais

Around 450 indigent residents of Bais City in Negros Oriental availed of the free medical and dental civic action program sponsored by the Rotary Club of Dumaguete City East, at the Negros Oriental State University Bais campus gymnasium yesterday, a press release from organizers said.

The outreach included medical consultation, dental services, circumcision, eye and blood pressure examinations. It was co-sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bais City, Silliman University Medical Center Foundation Inc., Philippine Dental Association-Negros Oriental Chapter, Bais City Health Unit, and the Philippine Army 302nd Brigade.

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