By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

Negros Occidental Provincial Budget Officer Jose Percival Salado recently called for Provincial Human Resource Management head, Atty. Annabelle Palic, to be relieved of duty after the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) issued an opinion disallowing the creation of a human resource department.
He said, with Palic out, it will give the provincial government “fair play” on how to deal with the DBM opinion.
Negros Occidental Governor-elect Eugenio Jose Lacson said the provincial government will follow the DBM recommendation to revert the HR department into a division.
Salado said her relief is needed because she is “involved in it.”
The provincial official said, if not for the ongoing election ban, he could have recommended Palic’s earlier./DGB, WDJ