ZAMBOANGA CITY – Three Boy Scouts were killed and 12 others were injured when the tent they were transferring touched a live wire during a jamboree at Abong Abong Park in Barangay Pasonanca here on Thursday, Dec. 12. THREE Boy Scouts were killed when they were electrocuted while transferring...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – This city ushered in the Yuletide season with the traditional switch on of the Christmas display on Friday, Nov. 29. THE Zamboanga City Hall is bright with Christmas lights. The event led by Mayor John Dalipe and Rep. Mannix Dalipe also launched the Festival...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Police Regional Office-9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) has launched the Project for Assisting Caring Engagement (PACE) to care for ailing police personnel. Mary Rose Marbil, national adviser of the Philippine National Police Officers’ Ladies Club Foundation Inc. and wife of PNP...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A police officer shot and killed a suspected robber who hacked his cousin and tried to rob her residence here on Wednesday, Dec. 4. A SUSPECTED robber was gunned down by a responsing policeman in Zamboanga City on Dec. 3. Investigation disclosed that Police...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Region 9 or Zamboanga Peninsula has ordered a P33 daily wage increase for private sector workers effective Dec. 12. THE Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-Region 9 meets to discuss the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe on Wednesday awarded P300,000 in cash incentives to the Zamboanga City Police Office Drug Enforcement Unit chief and two other police commanders for their accomplishments in the campaign against illegal drugs and crime here. MAYOR John Dalipe and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Major Gen. Antonio Nafarette was named as the new commander of the Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command. He assumed the position during a turnover ceremony at the Wesmincom headquarters here on Wednesday, Nov. 20, led by Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr....
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Police arrested on Monday, Nov. 18, the son of a retired general and seized nearly P30-million worth of suspected shabu during a buy-bust operation here. Ashraf Kayzar Ikbala, alias Bhar, 40, was arrested in Sitio Palawan, Zone 2, Barangay Divisoria. Lawmen confiscated...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 70-year-old man was killed and 15 families were left homeless by a fire in Barangay Tumaga here on Thursday night, Nov. 14. A FIRE hit Barangay Tumaga, Zamboanga City on Nov. 14. An elderly man was killed and 15 families were left homeless. Arson investigators said the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-9 has declared Nov. 15, 2024 to Feb. 15, 2025 as closed fishing season for sardines in the Zamboanga Peninsula. BFAR Regional Director Al Zhat Kunting leads the send-off ceremony in Zamboanga City for the 14th closed fishing season...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Three notorious kidnappers were killed in an encounter in Barangay Salipyasin, Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay at dawn on Tuesday, Nov. 12. A SUSPECTED kidnapper was killed in a gunbattle in Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay on Nov. 12. One of the suspects was Murid Ahod, the eighth...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Four persons were arrested in Barangay Cawit, a coastal barangay here, on Monday, Nov. 11, for allegedly smuggling sacks of sugar. SACKS of suspected smuggled sugar found in a shipyard in Barangay Cawit, Zamboanga City on Monday. Police nabbed three truck drivers and...
