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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Espinoza: Untangling the Cuenco-Dalawampu puzzle
By Elias l. Espinoza
Board or bar exams leakage has become a common problem. Almost all licensure tests are tainted with suspicions of cheating. Funny, but the situation is turning to be much like our elections.
However, the decision of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) to postpone the oath taking of those who hurdled the Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) given on June 11 and 12 is unfair for the honest ones.
Even worse is the suggestion that all those who took the NLE should retake the test to solve the leakage scandal. If the cheating happened in Baguio City, I see no reason to withhold the oath taking of those who took the NLE in other areas.
Retaking the exams is an injustice not only to those who did not cheat but also to their parents who worked hard so their children would become registered nurses and get jobs abroad.
The PRC should allow those who took the NLE outside of Baguio and got a passing score to take their oath but without abandoning the investigation and suing the wrongdoers.
Meanwhile, talks that the US would not hire the 2006 batch of nurses because of the leakage scandal are mere rumors. Those who failed may have made up the story.
As in any other profession, nurses are hired based on individual skill and ability. Results of board exams do not fully gauge a person’s skill and ability.
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The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), Cebu City chapter will find it difficult to resolve the conflict between Rep. Tony Cuenco and lawyer Gloria Lastimosa-Dalawampu.
Firstly, both tend to talk about the issue in public and reporters are always there to cover whatever they say. Secondly, both accused each other of lying. So who is telling the truth?
What’s notable there is that the one accusing a congressman, who is also a lawyer, of a misdeed is a lawyer---and both are members of the IBP Cebu City chapter.
Dalawampu claimed she saw Cuenco hand money to witness Hung Chin Chang after he testified in the shabu case against Calvin Tan, Dalawampu’s client, and several others. Cuenco denied it and in turn accused Dalawampu of making up stories to muddle the case.
Cuenco will naturally deny that he gave the money since that will put him in bad light as a legislator and jeopardize Chang’s testimony against Tan. On the other hand, what will Dalawampu get in making the accusation against Cuenco?
Cuenco’s interest in the successful prosecution of this case is obvious. He can earn pogi points for his efforts and, at the end of the day, embarrass Mandaue City politicians who were clueless when the shabu lab was set up in the city in 2004.
As to who is telling the truth, that is one big puzzle the IBP Cebu City chapter will have to untangle as soon as possible.
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