ILIGAN CITY -- The Bureau of Customs (BOC) destroyed P395 million worth of smuggled cigarettes during the simultaneous public condemnation activity held at the Pavilion Gym, Provincial Government Complex, Barangay Dao, Pagadian City, and at a customs-rented warehouse in Barangay Baliwasan on...
Government anti-narcotics arrested on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 13, an alleged drug pusher in a buy-bust in Zamboanga City. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office IX (PDEA RO IX) said Abdulhan Kallon Burahan was collared at around 3:40 p.m. after selling 50 grams of shabu to an...
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized more than P25 million worth of cigarettes believed to have been smuggled into the country via the porous borders of Mindanao. The contraband, according to the Bureau of Customs-Port of Zamboanga (BOC-POZ) Water Patrol Division (WPD), was intercepted off...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- A man was killed while six others were injured when a jeepney and pickup truck collided in San Jose Gusu, Zamboanga City on Thursday, December 8. A pickup truck turned upside down after it collided with a passenger jeepney and a motorcycle in San Jose Gusu, Zamboanga City. ...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (ZCDRRMO) led the Interoperability Simulation on Terrorism and Mass Casualty Incident on Tuesday, Dec. 6, on several streets in the business district here. SOLDIERS help the victim of an explosion during the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Mayor John Dalipe is the new chairperson of the Mindanao National Economic and Economic Authority (NEDA) Regional Development Committee after a reorganizational meeting of the panel in Davao City on Tuesday, Dec. 6. MAYOR John Dalipe takes his oath as new chairperson of the...
A lotto ticket bought in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur produced a new millionaire in the evening draw of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Thursday, Dec. 1. Courtesy of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office The lone bettor will take home P39,292,522.80 after correctly guessing...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources led send-off activities Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Majini Pier of the Naval Station Romulo M. Espaldon in Calarian, Zamboanga City to signal the start of the closed fishing season at the Zamboanga Peninsula. DEPARTMENT of Agriculture,...
Some 500 members of the Sama-Badjao community in Zamboanga City received cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Monday, Nov. 28. DSWD Secretary Erwin Tulfo addresses the Badjao community during the distribution of P10,000 cash assistance in Zamboanga City....
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Suspected shabu valued at P1 million was confiscated from two drug pushers in a buy-bust operation in a motel in Zamboanga City last Sunday, Nov. 27. Col. Alexander Lorenzo, Zamboanga City acting police director, identified the suspects as Al-Hammad Alih Ahadain, alias...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The National Bureau of Investigation and Securities and Exchange Commission seized nearly P15 million in cash from the house of a suspected scammer whose office and residence here were raided over the weekend. NBI agents seized nearly P15 million in cash from the house of a...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 42-year-old man stabbed his wife to death then himself in this city on Saturday, Nov. 26, police said. Investigation said victim Susaneth Hasil Leonardo, 38, was leaving her workplace on Veterans Ave. with a lady co-worker when they spotted her husband Ruel waiting...
