Impulses
Playing deaf
Five of the top 20 nursing schools in the country are from Western Visayas: Central Philippine University, Iloilo City (7th placer); University of San Agustin, Iloilo City (15th placer); University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City (15th placer) in Category 1, with at least 1,000 examinees; and, West Visayas State University (3rd placer) St. Paul University of Iloilo, (4th placer) in Category 2, with 100-999 examinees.
That’s four Iloilo schools in the top 20. Iloilo is indeed the hotbed of medical education in the country outside imperial Manila.
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152 of the 456 nursing schools in the country were warned to improve their passing rates in board examination specifically in the next three years to avoid the phasing out order, and six (4 percent) of these 152 are from the region.
Hopefully, Iloilo does not top the ranking in this category.
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The Ombudsman Visayas is currently conducting a stiff probe on the criminal and administrative complaints against Iloilo City Councilor and vice “mayorable” Julienne “Jam” Baronda. The rap is worth P333,000 of learning materials and P500,000-worth of nebulizer sets.
This must be solved the earliest. But I hope the motivation is not rigged with traditional politics.
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The issues thrown to Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas by the Gonzalezes are: the new city hall, the multi-million Pavia housing project, and the accounting of foreign funds received by the city government when Typhoon Frank hit Iloilo.
I think these accusations must be answered well, fast and clear by the outgoing mayor. However, the Gonzalezes must also be decent enough to elevate their electoral feud with Treñas into a higher plane of political discourse. Mudslinging is never a good wand to swoosh.
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Poverty is identified as a major factor in the desire of people to grasp any employment opportunity, some of which may lead them to danger, like becoming victims of human trafficking.
Kapit sa patalim,” as they say, people are now selling their flesh and soul just to make both ends meet. This, I think is the price of profit-fueled capitalism, power-hungry traditional politics, and amorally-driven consumerism.
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The government of Bacolod City spearheads the celebration of the World Aids Day.
Surely the people of Goldenfields are reminded of it.
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A third of the most popular children’s toys in the United States this year contain harmful chemicals including lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury, a US consumer group said yesterday.
Are they all coming from China?
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Filipino Grandmaster Wesley So was eliminated in the fourth round of his tiebreak matches against Russian GM Vladimir Malakhov at the 2009 World Chess Cup, according to a report on Chessdom,
Nonetheless, his feat is within the level of Pacquiao and Penaflorida (imagine beating superGMs Ivanchuk and Kamsky at the age of 17). This is Filipino brilliance! So makes a lot of Pinoys proud once more.
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The Washington Times will lay off 370 employees, reportedly around 40 percent of its workforce.
The price of cyberization?
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The PNP will be recommending to the Commission on Elections the inclusion of Maguindanao among the election hot spots in 2010 after the brutal killings in the area.
This thing is a given. The question is, what have they done and are still doing in the area to make it a terror-free place. By omission, they are also to be blamed of what had happened to the 57 sorry victims of the Maguindanao massacre.
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Piston held a noise barrage to protest the latest price hike on petroleum products by oil companies.
In behalf of the oil companies, Energy secretary Angelo Reyes is mad at the protesters again.
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FVR has urged GMA to resign after she formalized her candidacy for Congress. He said: “But can you imagine the fairness of it all? You, as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, chief executive with the power of appointment and removal; head of state, head of the government; director of the national budget, including the pork barrel, will run against this little lady here who is an ordinary engineer from Porac or a little mayor... or this guy here.”
GMA, I suppose, is just playing deaf. Power corrupts indeed.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
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(Engr. Herman Lagon, who “Facebookly” describes himself as a social scientist, is a physics teacher and a PhD. Student in Science Education Major in Mathematics. He may be reached through h_lagon@yahoo.com.)
