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Nurse No Rest

Nurses’ 40 Hour-Duty in Six Days jsbraza                  Iligan City - -- O ne of the city’s hospitals and institutions here has a number one topnotch in the recent Philippine Nursing Board Exam, RN Clarie Morales Bontol. She wishes to serve her city by being an employee to her alma mater. Sangyaw hopes that she will not complain later after her few weeks, months, or years in service.             Most hospital has a PM:7am-3pm, AM: 3pm-11pm,   and Night:11pm-7am working shifts without rest hours to its nurses, nursing aids, and midwives, thus making them serve 40-hours per week as mandated by the labor code___________. This makes 8-hours per day but some hospital institutions made it beyond the mandate. Nurses in a certain hospital of the city have six working days per week with one day rest. Because of this kind of work condition, they ...

They Can not Live Without Arms

Dismantling the armed infrastructure of the Moro Elite Benjamin V. Sumog-oy General Santos City Published in Sunstar, November 25, 2009 I was requested by my friend, John Paul Jubelag, publisher of a local paper in GenSan, to draft a statement of condemnation against the recent media massacre in Maguindanao for the different media groups in General Santos City, which I did. It is now time to subject to public discourse the role of the Moro Elite in Mindanao to the development and peace in the Island . This I intend to do in this space, but for the meantime, let me publish the statement which I drafted, which was signed by all media practitioners here, as a prelude to our future discussion. Here is it: The whole nation was stunned or shocked by the news about the recent massacre of about forty innocent people; among them were thirty-four members of the media, mostly women, working for both the national and local media networks, two young lady members of the Philippine Bar, wife a...

The September Morns of 2008

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old poem of not long ago in Mindnao

Mindanao Kagahapon, Karon ug Ugma Pastor Reu B. Montecillo I Sa unang panahon among nailhan Ang yutang Mindanao dapit sa kalambuan Yuta sa saad yuta sa kauswagan Lumad, Moro, Kristiano kini nahimong pinuy-anan. II Pakigdait, pagsinabtanay, pagtinabangay nasaksihan Sa among katigulangan ilang natagamtaman Alang kanamo nga ilang kabataan Kalinaw maoy kabilin nga ilang ikatugyan. III Tuig syetenta kadulom Mindanao imong nahiaguman Kamatay, gubat kalisod imong nasaksihan Mga ginikanan moingon managan ‘ta kabataan Tungod sa gubat nga nahiaguman nga dili ko masabtan. IV Tungod niini Mindanao ikaw nabiyaan Katambok sa imong yuta amo nga napasagdan Kayugot sa among dughan maoy giamomahan Maoy hinungdan sa gyera nga walay kapuslanan. V Tuig Dos mil kami usab nahimong ginikanan Guyog sa among mga anak kami na usab nanagan Ang among kabataan nangutana unsa ang hinungdan Sa kagubot nga nahiaguman nga dili gayud masabtan. VI Mindanao karon amo nang nakit-an Ang Gugma sa Dios o ni Allah isulod sa am...