WNC, more graduates
to file charges vs. PRC
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The WNC nursing graduates demanding justice in Iloilo City yesterday*

West Negros College and more of its nursing graduates whose board exam results have yet to be released are filing another case against the Professional Regulation Commission and the Board of Nursing before the Manila Regional Trial Court, their lawyer Leon Moya said yesterday.

We will be filing a petition for mandamus with damages against PRC, BON and other government agencies involved in the delayed release of the results of the Nursing Licensure Examination they took on Dec. 3 and 4, 2005, he said.

On Monday 146 WNC graduates also filed two petitions for mandamus against PRC and BON before the Iloilo RTC to seek the release of the exam results.

Protest staged at
nurses oathtaking rites

ILOILO CITY - The thunder of Ati-atihan drums, a hearse, protest placards and more than a hundred people wearing black shirts greeted spotlessly dressed nurses who took their oath yesterday in a hotel here.

Those in black, 145 in all, should have been with those who took their nurses' oath but were unable to do so because the Professional Regulations Commission withheld the results of their nursing board examinations last December.

The protesters were among the nursing graduates from West Negros College in Bacolod City, half of whom were professionals who took up nursing as a "second course." The PRC said that 604 names were withheld, pending investigation of discrepancies in their students records, among them overloading or taking more academic courses than what was allowed in one semester.

26 injured in
Valladolid road mishap
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

Two members of the Philippine Marines and at least 24 others were injured when a Dumaguete-bound Ceres bus collided with a 10-wheeler truck at a curve along the national highway in Brgy. Palaka, Valladolid town, Negros Occidental, at about 8 last night.

Senior Insp. Rico Santotome, Valladolid PNP chief, yesterday told the DAILY STAR in a phone interview, the Ceres bus with Plate Number FWA-995 driven by Edwardo Docto slammed into a cement delivery cargo truck driven by Rhandy Tanodra Cornel of Brgy. Tabunan, Bago City.

Santotome said the 10-wheeler truck was observed to be racing with two other vehicles on its way to Bacolod City before it collided with the bus loaded by at least 40 passengers.