 Teachers’ salaries back payment. Ali Sabpel (right), 61, a teacher at the Balungis Elementary School in Pagalungan, Maguindanao, receives 11 checks covering his unpaid salaries from June to December 2006 and January to February 2007 including bonuses from Regional Executive Secretary Naguib Sinarimbo on Monday at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex (SKCC) in Cotabato City. Inset photo shows ARMM finance personnel in a row of tables readying checks for 1,245 other teacher-claimants, some of them shown fronting the processors. All checks set for distribution from Monday to Wednesday involved P106 million. (BPI-ARMM/PIA9-ZBST) |