ZAMBOANGA CITY – A fire hit the Hall of Justice in Barangay Zone IV here before dawn on Saturday, Aug. 9. The Bureau of Fire Protection and the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office put out the fire that started at 3:31 a.m. and declared under control at 3:58 a.m. Nobody was killed or...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The city government will strictly implement the rest day provision among tricycles here. Tricycle Ordinance 185 regulates the operation of motorized tricycles. In a press conference, Secretary to the Mayor Celso Lobregat said Article 6, Section 3, of Ordinance 185 restricts the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confiscated firearms from three suspected members of a gun smuggling syndicate during an operation here on Wednesday, Aug. 6. NBI-9 Director Jose Ermie A. Monsanto identified the suspects as Alfahad Sampang Hayidini, 27; Nurhakim...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two persons were killed and two others were injured when a truck rammed a motorcycle along the Malagutay portion of the bypass road here on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Police identified the fatalities as Rowel Lopez dela Peña, the motorcycle driver, and Dennis Gaco Absin, a native of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Regional Office 9 on Friday, Aug. 1, closed down the Zamboanga City branch of Visa to America Manila Inc., a visa consultation agency recruiting teacher applicants for jobs in the United States. DMW-9 Regional Director Gay Iris Tangcalagan...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Three members of the Philippine Air Force were arrested for alleged illegal discharge of firearms here last Thursday, July 31. Authorities responded to reports of gunfire in Barangay Quiniput at around 8:52 p.m. Police and the barangay quickly initiated a hot pursuit operation...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Mayor Khymer Olaso here banned on Monday, July 28, full face helmets following a grenade throwing incident at the house of a supporter and president of a contractor 's association here. Olaso asked police to launch a full investigation and immediately identify and arrest the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A grenade exploded inside the home of the president of a contractor’s association and a known supporter of Mayor Khymer Olaso here on Monday, July 28. The explosion was heard at around 3:22 a.m. at the house of Melvin Q. Tan, president of La Contratistas de la Ciudad de...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) confirmed the first case of Monkeypox here on Wednesday, July 23. The city government said that the patient complained of fever and developed rashes on July 6. Test results from the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine in Muntinlupa City confirmed...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two-hundred twenty families from 12 barangays here are staying in evacuation centers due to heavy rains and strong winds from tropical storm ‘’Crising’’ and the southwest monsoon or ‘’habagat’’ on Thursday, July 18. The City Social Welfare and Development Office...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Work and classes here were cancelled on Thursday due to heavy rains and strong winds from tropical depression “Crising” and the southwest monsoon or “habagat.” Acting Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco, officer-in-charge after Mayor Khymer Olaso left for the United States,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A robbery suspect was apprehended and mauled by bystanders after attempting to steal from two people here on Monday, July 14, using a pellet gun. Police said the suspect allegedly attempted to rob two victims, one of whom is an employee of a commercial mall. The suspect...
