| DENR
checks beach resorts | | | The
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) vowed to check beach resorts
with no environmental clearances, the same reason for which the agency closed
last Tuesday Dumaluan Beach Resort, owned by Panglao Mayor Doloreich Dumaluan.
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STORY | | CLOSURE
ORDER. Col. Roy Kyamko of the NAECTAF serves the closure order for Dumaluan
Beach Resort last Tuesday while lawyer Zotico Ochavillo (top foto) questions the
group on legality. |
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Before Deadline.... |
Arroyo's
retake order
stays - Dante Ang
Dante
Ang, chairman of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, said Saturday that President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's decision to require a retake of the leakage-affected
portions of the June 2006 nursing licensure examination stays and would prevail
despite a pending case in the Court of Appeals.
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STORY | 
| | 442
nursing deans fight Malacañang over board retake
Deans
of the country's 442 nur-sing colleges have taken a stubborn stand against the
pronouncement of Malacañang favoring the nursing board examinations retake.
Bohol
president of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) Fran-cisca Baluyot said the
strong opposition mounted by the deans alone should cause Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
to reconsider the Palace's decision.
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STORY | | |  | | | Mark
Bautista in Lila concert Pop
heartthrob Mark Bautista will be in Lila town on Friday for a concert, one of
the highlights of the town's annual fiesta celebration in honor of Our Lady of
the Rosary.
The
concert starts at 8 p.m. Special guests are Canadian Idol 2003 finalist and Lila's
pride Annabelle Lumayag; and Viva's promising Cebuana srtist Raffi Quijano.
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| | | EDITORIAL | | | THE
SANCTITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT| | | Many
people ignore the fact that to violate the sanctity of the environment is to court
human disaster.
For
instance, only few people realize that the 1991 flashfloods in Ormoc, primarily
aggravated by forest denudation and reckless waste disposal killed 5,000 Filipinos
- far large than the 3,000 killed in New York due to 9/11 Event and the 2,300
American servicemen slaughtered in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Pilipinas-World Anna Maris Igpit made it to the semi-finals in the Miss World
Beachwear category of the 2006 Miss World beauty contest in Warsaw, Poland. The
19-year old beauty from Panglao town represented the country in last night's pageant
that culminated in a grand coronation. The Miss World crown has been very elusive
for Asians in the past years.
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