The National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) or in short PhilHealth with its current theme: ?Kalusugan ng lahat,PhilHealth ang katapat? has aimed to provide a universal coverage of at least 85% of the entire 90M Filipinos by the year 2010.

The commentary of Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, PhD ?Pilipino, Filipino, Tagalog? published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nov.15, 2008) implied that the evolution that a chosen national language like Tagalog has undergone is only in name but not in its element or substance. From Pilipino, the name use in school as a subject, and Filipino as citizenship, then Filipino as both a subject and citizenship. And lastly Tagalog as the dominating base being chosen as the national language.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has released the November 2008 Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) result. Among the 88,649 nurses who took the exam, 19 examinees were product of the College of Maasin. Among those who took the exam nationwide, 39,455 examinees passed which is 44.51%. And those coming from College of Maasin, only 4 of them failed.
For the complete list of passers, please visit “November 2008 Nursing Board Exam Result“.

The Saint Joseph College, during the first inter-collegiate sports fest held recently here has grabbed the overall championship crown in all 6 games competitions with a total score of 280.

If Manny Pacquiao is sensitive enough to perceive the reason why some politicians and businessmen want him to run as Congressman, is that they are only riding on his popularity status. They seem not to look into consideration how the low-graded boxer would fare in his uncharted and unknown course.

Ignacia “Nasing/Nancy” Durano-Bayhon
80 years old
Stockton, California
Born – May 9, 1928
Reborn to Another Life – February 9, 2009

The approval of the 2009 Annual Performance Budget was moved by City Councilor Ma. Essie Espina-Garvez, Chairwoman Committee on Finance and Appropriation, and were seconded by Councilors Margarita Bantug and Nestor Sy, who likewise approved it unanimously.

The Gawad Kalinga has turned over 70 housing units recently to beneficiaries of Brgy. Pinut-an, San Ricardo here in this province who were victims of the traumatic tragedy at about 9:00PM on December 19, 2003 in Panaon lsland?s massive landslides.

Likewise, mendicancy in the city is now minimized and prohibition of minors for playing video games during class hours were imposed. There?s also a massive information drive against swindling and neighborhood involvement in crime prevention, suppression and reporting.

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan during its recent session held at the Provincial Capitol here has approved on its third reading of Resolution No.911-s.2008, the total annual budget of PhP446,596,822.00 for the province of Southern Leyte for the current year.