No extra honoraria for teachers in 2023 barangay, SK polls

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines --- Teachers who will serve as electoral board members in barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections this October will not get any additional honoraria, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair George Erwin Garcia said on Saturday. "We were supposed to increase [the honoraria]. We were going to request an increase in the honoraria to be received by our teachers. But because of a lack of budget, we just decided to fix the amount of what they will get," Garcia said in Filipino in a chance interview with reporters in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, where he monitored the voter registration there. According to Garcia, an electoral board chair ...

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