PRC: Some WNC grads
must go back to school
Only about 200 nursing
board exam results may be released
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Professional Regulations Commission and the Commission on Higher Education will not allow all of the 460 West Negros College nursing graduates to get their much-awaited board examination results.

Rep. Ignacio Arroyo (Neg. Occ., 5th district) yesterday said PRC chairperson Leonor Tripon-Rosero told him that only the board examination results of WNC nursing graduates who had taken 30 units and below a semester will be released.

However, those who took above 30 units a semester will have to go back to school, Rosero said.

12% VAT on but
prices ok, DTI says
BY NANETTE GUADALQUIVER

The Department of Trade and Industry-Negros Occidental has not monitored any unusual increase in the prices of basic commodities in local supermarkets until yesterday, the start of the implementation of the 12 percent Value Added Tax.

Vivian Gaston, trade and industry development specialist, told the DAILY STAR they have been monitoring prices daily since January 23 in preparation for the two percent increase in the VAT and this will continue until the second week of January.

In their price monitoring operations, they check the prices of canned goods like sardines, corned beef and luncheon meat and of coffee and milk, among others, she said.

Math teacher gets
60-day jail sentence
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

A Mathematics teacher in Kabankalan City was sentenced yesterday to 60 days imprisonment after he was found guilty of three counts of unjust vexation against his three female students sometime in school year 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Kabankalan Regional Trial Court Judge Henry Arles yesterday meted Carlos Buenafe, 49, a former public school teacher of the Binicuil National High School in Kabankalan City 20 days for each count of unjust vexation for vexing or annoying his students, whose names were withheld by the DAILY STAR.