Although things have calmed down a bit, the situation remains volatile. If the mining company pursues its plan to build a mine in the area, there is the danger that succeeding news reports from Kasibu will not only be about clashes but about deaths and bloodshed.
After Baguio Rep. Mauricio Domogan and Benguet Rep. Samuel Dangwa got “chairmanship” positions in Congress, we speculated that the other Cordillera Representatives will not be getting any significant post. It turns out that we were wrong because Mt. Province Rep. Victor Dominguez is now the chair of the Committee on Games and Amusements.
We don’t know exactly what the committee does but the congressional website states that it has jurisdiction over “all matters directly and principally relating to all forms and places of recreation, gaming and amusements.” So, apparently, this committee focuses on gambling related matters like jueteng, small town lottery, casinoes, etc. etc. Maybe this is the reason why the committee has a mind-boggling number of members, 122, which is about one third of the total House membership?
For our readers who don’t usually visit the comments section, we are uploading Cheryl’s comments because she shares some interesting information and raises some important points about nursing schools. Cheryl knows what she is talking about because she is the lead counsel of the group of nursing students and faculty which exposed the cheating in last year’s nursing board exam. Read our post about said scandal here.
In case you haven’t visited Cheryl’s blog yet, then you should visit it here. You are missing one third of your life if you haven’t read her poems 🙂 Cheryl Daytec-Yangot on nursing schools: I agree with The Nashman that topnotch education is the key. But how can we achieve topnotch education when the Arroyo Administration liberalized the nursing schools? The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is granting permits to nursing schools, left and right, front and back. There are so many nursing schools without adequate facilities but they were granted CHED permits. This is in line with GMA’s labor export policy. Our nursing labor is our most marketable export.
