ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities confiscated suspected shabu valued at P13.6 million from a police officer of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) during a buy-bust operation here on Saturday, May 16. The suspect was identified as Police Staff Sgt. Nager Indal Abdulbasir, 45,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police are hunting the suspect in the murder of the Zamboanga Register of Deeds in 2025. The victim, Jaybee Baguinda, 57, was shot dead on board his vehicle on Jan. 31 while entering his office here. A court here has issued a warrant of arrest for murder against the suspect, Mark...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Five kilos of suspected shabu worth P34-million were seized in a buy-bust operation in a mall parking lot here Tuesday. Three alleged drug pushers from Tawi-Tawi and Sulu were apprehended. Recovered from them were five plastic bags containing shabu and a pickup truck. Their...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The four congressmen from this city were divided in their votes in the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday, May 11. Zamboanga City second district Rep. Jerry “Kap Totong” Perez voted no while first district Rep. Kat Chua voted yes. The two party-list...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A specialized unit of the Bureau of Fire Protection contained a toxic chemical leak in a government hospital here on Sunday, May 10. Medical personnel inside the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) laboratory detected a toxic chemical leak which they later identified as...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A motor launch with over 100 drums of fuel for transport to Tawi-Tawi province was razed by fire Friday night, May 8, in a private wharf here. ML Alkazer was loaded with nearly 140 drums of diesel when the fire broke out while it was anchored at the Taha Wharf in Barangay...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The first Overseas Filipino Workers Lounge at the Zamboanga International Airport here was inaugurated on Tuesday, May 5. The lounge, the first in the Zamboanga Peninsula, aims to provide migrant workers with improved level of convenience and service and meets the standard...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Applicants trooped to several job fairs held by the Department of Labor and Employment-9 in the Zamboanga Peninsula on Labor Day. These were held in Zamboanga City, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay; Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, and Zamboanga del Norte province. The job fair in...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Joint Task Force Zamboanga commander and 11 other Army personnel are facing criminal complaints for negligence, frustrated murder, and murder for a raid in Barangay Sinunuc here which resulted in the death of a minor and two other persons here on Thursday, April 23. Zamboanga...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – An employee of the Bureau of Internal Revenue here who was arrested during an entrapment operation in 2022 was convicted by the Regional Trial Court of money laundering. The Regional Trial Court Branch 12 sentenced Flora Sarau Albao, Revenue Officer IV of Revenue District 93 A of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 and Zamboanga City police seized suspected shabu worth more than P54 million and apprehended three drug pushers in two buy-bust operations here on Friday, April 24. PDEA, Naval Intelligence, and Drug Interdiction Task Force-Western...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Police Regional Office-9 has organized Special Investigative Task Force Alfad to look into the deaths of three family members during a service of warrant operation by the police and military here on Thursday. In a statement, PRO-9 said that an SITG conference has been...
