ZAMBOANGA CITY – An official of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples was shot dead in Isabela City, Basilan on Monday, April 21.MALUNPolice Lt. Col. Raymond Sanson, Isabela City police station chief, identified the victim as Czarina Mae Mustafa Malun, a resident of Sitio Mabarakat,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - An Isabela City government employee working for peace and order and illegal drug prevention was shot dead in front of his house in Isabela City, Basilan province on Thursday, Feb. 20.Isabela City police station chief Police Lt. Col. Raymond Sanson identified the victim as Ricardo...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 21-year-old student was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Isabela City, Basilan province on Sunday, Jan. 12, the first day of the gun ban in the May elections.Newly appointed Isabela City police director Police Lt. Col. Raymond Sanson identified the fatality as...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Three family members died in a fire which gutted their house and store in Isabela City, Basilan at dawn on Monday, Dec. 9.A FIRE killed three family members in Basilan on Monday, Dec. 9. (Contributed photo by Ely Dumaboc)The victims were identified as Hji Hadjira...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities declared Isabela City in Basilan province Abu Sayyaf Group-free during a simple ceremony at the Isabela City Civic and Cultural Center in Binuangan, Isabela City on Monday, September 30.ISABELA City hall (Wikipedia)Isabela City was the latest area in Basilan to be...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A policeman was injured in a grenade explosion in Isabela City in Basilan on Sunday night, September 29, a day before the declaration of the city as Abu Sayyaf Group-free.The injured was identified as Police Patrolman Aldimar Salahuddin of the Regional Mobile Force...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has cited Basilan province for enacting an ordinance to protect human rights defenders.In a statement, the CHR said the ordinance -- "Basilan Province Human Right Defenders Protection Ordinance" -- is the first-ever local legislation by any provincial...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The president of the Association of Barangay Captains of Isabela City, Basilan was shot dead and his two companions were wounded in front of a hotel here on Sunday night, February 25.Police identified the fatality as Franklyn Galos Tan, chairman of Barangay Seaside.Wounded...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Roman Catholic community and the provincial government of Basilan condemned on Sunday, August 27, the desecration of a sacred image of Jesus Christ at the Santa Isabel de Portugal Cathedral in Isabela City, Basilan.A STATUE of Jesus Christ with the unwanted child at the Santa...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – Two Basilan Electric Cooperative (Baselco) personnel were killed in a broad daylight shooting in Isabela City, the capital of Basilan, Tuesday, August 9.
Police Lt. Col. Junpikar Sitin, Isabela City police chief, said Baseco linemen Alvin Pangilinan,...
House bills seeking to establish a medical center, a science high school, a multi-species hatchery, and a sports academy were among the first measures filed at the Lower Chamber by a congressman of the lone district of Basilan for his constituents in 19th Congress.
Basilan Representative Mujiv...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Isabela City police were able to find closed circuit television (CCTV) footage showing a person of interest who may have been behind the explosions at the parking lot of a fastfood chain and a bus terminal on Monday, May 30, in Isabela City, Basilan.
The suspect in the...
