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,...
A farmer lies dead after being shot by suspected New People's Army (NPA) rebels in Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte on Nov. 23, 2023. The victim, 48-year-old Ricardo Quijano, allegedly refused to give food supplies to suspected communist rebels. (Photo by 97th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army) The...
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 Department of Health-9 has started the catch-up immunization program to boost the immunity of children in the Zamboanga Peninsula here on Monday, November 13. GOVERNMENT health workers immunize children during the MR-SIA vaccination campaign of the government early...
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...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday announced that the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) has issued wage increase orders for private sector workers and domestic workers or “kasambahay” effective November 12. In Wage...
