NEGROS OCCIDENTAL – The provincial police office of Negros Occidental was alarmed by the continuous attack of an unidentified individual or group of suspected serial killers who are victimizing students in Silay and Bago City. Provincial Police Director Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco said that he already assigned 59 new police in the 2 cities to […]
Have a Beer Pilgrim
If you’ve always thought of the Puritans who disembarked from the Mayflower in 1620 as dour teetotalers, think again. Dour, they may have been, but teetotalers they weren’t. Their alcoholic beverage was so important to them that their dependence on it probably determined more than anything why they docked in rocky, wintry Massachusetts instead of […]
Gov’t to regulate deployment of nurses abroad
The national government has been mulling the idea of regulating the deployment of professional and skilled workers abroad. But some sectors have expressed dismay over the government’s move to curtail the freedom of movement of people. This came to fore after the Department of Labor and Employment had noticed the impacts of the continuing braindrain […]
Iron deficiency abounds in Vizag City girls
An alarming situation prevails in the ‘steel city’ where some 28,000-odd students, mostly girls of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) schools were suffering from ‘iron deficiency’ resulting in a high rate of absenteeism. Though no official or the elected representative took serious note of the issue despite warnings by the medical community, the State Government […]
Reminders for NCLEX reviewers in the Philippines
The settting up of the NCLEX testing center in Metro Manila, Philippines, has opened up new hope and horizon to a lot of Filipino nurses who are eager to work in the United States. They believed that big opportunities await them in the land considered by many as teeming with great opportunities. But in their […]
EDUCATION IN 2010
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS · Throughout this scenario, the terms network, Internet, internet-accessible, online, etc. are used interchangeably in describing an environment in which people have access to information stored on computers, without regard to time & place. This access might take place through the Internet or an Intranet or a wireless connection device or the telephone. […]