Board of Nursing rules
on WNC students fate
EXAMINEE CALLS IT STUPID, ILLEGAL
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Board of Nursing has approved the release of the results of the West Negros College board examinees with loads not exceeding 30 units and Related Learning Experience hours, as prescribed in Commission on Higher Education Memo No. 30, Series of 2001.

The decision is contained in BN Resolution No. 4, Series of 2006 dated Feb .7, a copy of which was furnished the DAILY STAR yesterday by the PRC, granting the release of the December 2005 Nurse Licensure Examination results of some examinees.

About 460 WNC nursing graduates have been demanding the release of their examinations results, and most of them have filed petitions before the Regional Trial Courts of Bacolod, Iloilo and Cebu to compel the Board of Nursing and the Professional Regulation Commission to do so.

'Filing cases vs. NBI
agents a desperate move'
BY CARLA GOMEZ

"Desperate, defensive moves" - that was how Bacolod NBI chief Philip Pecache yesterday described the charges filed Wednesday by officials of a security agency and a resort in Pamplona town against National Bureau of Investigation agents from Bacolod City which, he said, are meant to counter the cases set to be filed against them by government authorities.

They are nothing but the products of fertile imaginations, Pecache further said of the charges for robbery with violence and intimidation, kidnapping and serious detention, grave threats and planting of evidence against the NBI agents and their companions.

Six fishermen
missing at sea
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Search operations were underway yesterday for six fishermen of EB Magalona town who were reported missing at sea, Mayor Alfonso Gamboa said.

"We are hoping they have only sought shelter from bad weather in a neighboring island, but the Bantay Dagat, in coordination with the Provincial Disaster Management Team, has been alerted and are exerting efforts to find them," Gamboa said.

A PDMT report yesterday said the persons missing since 4 p.m. Wednesday were identified only as Totong, John, Bimbo and Robert of Barangay Tomongtong, EB Magalona. They had allegedly gone to sea on a red and white boat to catch crabs.