ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe postponed the traditional switch-on of Christmas lights at City Hall signaling the start of the annual Christmas Festival dubbed “Festival Navidad” in light of the brutal killing of a barangay captain here on Friday, December 1. DALIPE Dalipe appealed for...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A barangay captain here was shot dead on Friday, December 1. Police identified the fatality as Serbelyo “Beyong” Molina, 55, captain of Barangay Cawit. A BARANGAY captain, Serbelyo ‘Beyong’ Molina, was shot dead in Zamboanga City on December 1. (Photo via Liza...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Customs destroyed smuggled cigarettes worth P323 million in warehouse here on Thursday, November 30. ZAMBOANGA City Mayor John Dalipe and Bureau of Customs Port of Zamboanga District Collector Arthur Sevilla during the destruction of smuggled cigarettes in Zamboanga...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A security officer was gunned down here on Monday, November 27. POLICE and paramedics attend to a shooting victim in Zamboanga City. (Photo via Liza Jocson) Police identified the victim as Ricky Funtilon Casipe, 48, of Sitio Buenagatas, Boalan, this city. Casipe,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police arrested three colleagues for robbery in Barangay Tetuan here on Saturday, November 18. POLICE arrest three colleagues over a robbery incident in Zamboanga City. (PNP) The suspects were identified as Police Lt. Ariel J. Fernandez, 43, assigned to the Police...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Forty families lost their homes in a fire in a residential area in Upper Calarian here on Tuesday, November 14. RESIDENTS check what remained of their homes following a fire in Zamboanga City on Tuesday. (Photo via Liza Jocson) The Bureau of Fire Protection said the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 destroyed illegal drugs valued at more than P42 million here on Monday, November 13. PDEA-9 personnel lead the destruction of illegal drugs in a local canning factory in Zamboanga City. (Photo via Liza Jocson) They consisted of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Thousands participated in the fourth quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) here on Thursday morning, November 9. EMPLOYEES of the Zamboanga City Hall participate in the fourth quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill in Zamboanga City on Thursday,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A huge boulder rolled on the side of a hill and crushed a farmer to death in an incident described as a freak accident in Pamucutan, Zamboanga City on Wednesday, November 8. The victim, Erwin Ituralde Salvador, and his two sons went to a sunflower farm on Wednesday night and fell...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe led the mass oath-taking of more than 1,500 newly elected barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan officials in this city on Wednesday, November 8. ZAMBOANGA City Mayor John Dalipe, Rep. Khymer Olaso, Vice Mayor Pinpin Pareja, DILG City Officer Ginagene Vaño-Uy, and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Social Security System (SSS), Bureau of Customs (BOC), and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Tuesday, November 7, in a hotel here for the social security coverage of job order and contractual personnel of these three offices who are not...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth more than P8 million were seized in this city on Monday, November 6. The Zamboanga 2nd Mobile Force Company and the Bureau of Customs were conducting seaborne patrol in the sea in Barangay Maasin when they spotted a motorized boat or “jungkong”...
