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.

Ernesto Arbolario, West Negros College vice president for academic affairs, said about 460 WNC nursing graduates were not able to join the oathtaking rites of the new nursing board passers at the Iloilo Grand Hotel yesterday because the results of their exams have yet to be released.

The WNC nursing graduates have also sent an appeal to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to intervene in the release of their exam results and to give them justice.

"We all feel that it is our right to know the results regardless whether we have passed or not in the examination so that we can plan and move ahead with our lives," they said.

They said the PRC has not explained why their exam results have been withheld and when it will be.

"It has been a long and anxious wait for us and this has affected our lives , our work and our families," the WNC graduates told the President.

"We feel that we have been judged, convicted and sentenced without due process, thus this desperate appeal for your sense of justice," the WNC graduates wrote the President.*CPG

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