ZAMBOANGA CITY – The first Overseas Filipino Workers Lounge at the Zamboanga International Airport here was inaugurated on Tuesday, May 5. The lounge, the first in the Zamboanga Peninsula, aims to provide migrant workers with improved level of convenience and service and meets the standard...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Applicants trooped to several job fairs held by the Department of Labor and Employment-9 in the Zamboanga Peninsula on Labor Day. These were held in Zamboanga City, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay; Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, and Zamboanga del Norte province. The job fair in...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Joint Task Force Zamboanga commander and 11 other Army personnel are facing criminal complaints for negligence, frustrated murder, and murder for a raid in Barangay Sinunuc here which resulted in the death of a minor and two other persons here on Thursday, April 23. Zamboanga...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – An employee of the Bureau of Internal Revenue here who was arrested during an entrapment operation in 2022 was convicted by the Regional Trial Court of money laundering. The Regional Trial Court Branch 12 sentenced Flora Sarau Albao, Revenue Officer IV of Revenue District 93 A of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 and Zamboanga City police seized suspected shabu worth more than P54 million and apprehended three drug pushers in two buy-bust operations here on Friday, April 24. PDEA, Naval Intelligence, and Drug Interdiction Task Force-Western...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Police Regional Office-9 has organized Special Investigative Task Force Alfad to look into the deaths of three family members during a service of warrant operation by the police and military here on Thursday. In a statement, PRO-9 said that an SITG conference has been...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Police Regional Office-9 is investigating a bloody encounter during the service of a warrant of arrest here against an Abu Sayyaf member on Thursday, April 23, where three persons were killed and an official of the Sangguniang Kabataan was wounded. “Police Regional Office-9...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The mother of an Overseas Filipino Worker allegedly killed in Lebanon by her employer’s son is appealing for help from the national and local governments. Helen Zamoras, a former OFW and mother of the victim Honeylith Zamoras, is seeking help from the national government in...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities rescued 15 suspected human trafficking and illegal recruitment victims, including a minor, during an operation on Monday evening, April 20, in a private wharf here. Victims were six women, eight men, and a male minor. Authorities launched the operation following...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Sardine production here may only be sustained for the next 15 days or until the end of this month, an official of an industrial group said. Edgar Lim, vice president of the Industrial Group of Zamboanga, confirmed an earlier statement that the fishing sector in this city is...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - More than P47-million worth of suspected shabu was seized from a woman and two companions during a buy-bust operation here on Friday, April 17. The suspects were identified as Sulu residents Dalla Andi Sakit, alias Indah, 32: Nurdimar Musad, 43, and Zaldy Akok Abdul,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Lamitan City police arrested the second suspect linked to the fatal shooting of a Lebanese national and his Filipino wife during a law enforcement operation in Lamitan, Basilan on Thursday, April 16. The suspect, identified as Salman Najirun, 23, was apprehended in Sitio Libi,...
