| Chinese
biz rift widens | | | The
rift among influential members of the Chinese community worsened last Tuesday
with the raging conflict in the board of trustees of the Chinese-owned Bohol Wisdom
School (BWS), considered an elite learning institution in the city.
The
latest twist of developments was the resignation last week of businessman Ildefonso
"Eddie" Uy as secretary of the BWS board of trustees following some
intramurals during the Oct. 3 board meeting held at Metro Centre Hotel, this city.
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STORY | | BALSA
RIDE. Rep Edgar Chatto joined by Mayor Tranquilina Maniwang and Vice Mayor
Ireneo Calimpusan enjoying the maiden balsa ride at Sikatuna Tree Park. |
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| | | Just
Before Deadline.... |
CA
rules partial retake, oath-taking
MANILA.
The nursing graduates who passed the licensure examination conducted in areas
outside of Metro Manila and Baguio and those who registered at but did not attend
the "final coaching" sessions of the three review centers suspected
of leaking test questions may immediately take their oath as professional nurses,
the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
In
a much-awaited decision on the cheating scandal that rocked the nursing profession,
the appellate court also ordered a retake of Tests III and V for 1,186 examinees
whose names were added to the list of some 17,000 passers following the recomputation
of test scores by the Professional Regulation Commission.
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| | Aunction
Center for P3B animal industry inaugurated tom'row
Bohol's
first and only modern auction center for the P3 billion livestock industry will
be inaugurated in Catigbian tomorrow.
The
P10 million Catigbian Livestock Auction Center, a pet project of Mayor Roberto
Salinas assisted by the provincial government led by Gov. Erico Aumentado and
the first congressional district office of Rep. Edgar Chatto, is also reputed
to be the biggest in Central Visayas.
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STORY | | |  | | | 'Voters
Project' spearheads youth registration drive With
the advocacy slogan "I am the future. I register. I vote. I transform.",
the First Time Voters Project (FTVP) leads the youth in a voters' registration
drive aimed specifically to the youth now qualified to vote in next year's local
elections.
Notwithstanding
rumors of a no-election scenario come May 2007, qualified youth, aged eighteen
and above (or at least aged eighteen at the day of elections next year) are strongly
urged to visit their local Comelec offices, with their
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| | | EDITORIAL | | | "NO"
RETAKE OF NURSING TESTS| | |  | | The
dramatic protest march of the remarkably coined group called BAROG (Boholanos
Against the Retake of Nursing Exams Group) held simultaneously in other major
cities in the country has a point. |
The
NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) had spoken that the nursing test leakage
occurred only within Metro Manila and Baguio City and involved only Tests Nos.
III and V. Yesterday, the Court of Appeals, ruled on that basis that the retake
should include only those two places and two specific test numbers.
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- Boholanos Against Retake Of the Nursing Exams during their prayer rally. |
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