ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Office of the City Agriculturist reported that fall armyworms have destroyed six hectares of corn in Barangay Mampang here. Edgardo Ramos, barangay kagawad and chairperson of the barangay Committee on Agriculture, said around 20 members of the Mampang Integrated Farmers...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) is looking into the death of two children and the hospitalization of their sibling after reportedly eating poisonous leaves which were boiled and served by their grandmother on Monday in Barangay Maasin here. The CHO is looking into reports that the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A woman allegedly stabbed her live-in partner during a fierce argument in Barangay Pasonanca, Zamboanga City on Saturday, July 29. Police Major Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-9 information officer, identified the victim as Junnie Vicente de Leon, 31. Investigation...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police arrested a minor and a construction worker on Thursday, July 27, for allegedly raping and killing a 17-year-old girl here. City police chief Police Col. Alexander Lorenzo identified the suspect as Nickson Sampuk Saavedra, 29. The identity of the minor was withheld. A...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 17-year-old girl reported missing on Tuesday, July 25, was found dead the following day in Pasobolong, this city. Police said the body of Louella Jaganas Acaylar was found by a 12-year-old child hidden in the bushes in Zone 3. Her body was decomposing when it was found. Police...
KATIPUNAN, Zamboanga del Norte – Aboitiz Power Corp. (AboitizPower) and Zamboanga del Norte Electric Cooperative Inc. (Zaneco) recently held a medical mission for around 200 residents in Barangay Sitog here. HEALTH workers vaccinate a child during the medical mission in Barangay Sitog,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The city government distributed financial assistance to 1,581 Covid-19 survivors here on Monday, July 24. The beneficiaries were infected with Covid from January to September 2022. They were from Barangays Putik, Recodo, Rio Hondo, Salaan, Quiniput, San Jose Gusu, Cawa Cawa,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City Health Office recorded seven leptospirosis fatalities from January to June this year. The ZCHO logged a total of 73 leptospirosis cases in the same period....
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A member of the Philippine Navy surrendered to police on Tuesday, July 18, after being identified as the suspect in an indiscriminate firing incident inside a pub house here. Police Major lbin Cabayacruz, Police Station 11 commander, identified the suspect as Sgt. Johny Mark...
CAMP SANG-AN, Zamboanga del Sur – The Public Affairs Office (PAO) of the Army 1st Infantry “Tabak” Division successfully hosted the Division Press Corps Strategic Communication Cascading 2023 at the Officer’s Clubhouse in this camp on Saturday, July 15. The Division Press Corps Strategic...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – One person was killed while two were wounded when three unidentified men fired indiscriminately inside a pub house here at dawn on Monday, July 17. POLICE cordon off a pub house following shooting incident in Zamboanga City where an employee was killed anmd before dawn on...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Some P7.1-million worth of smuggled cigarettes were intercepted in Zamboanga City on Saturday, July 8. SOME P7.1-million worth of smuggled cigarettes on their way to Pagadian from Sulu were intercepted in Zamboanga City on Saturday, July 8. (2nd ZCMFC photo) The smuggled...
