Before a massive crowd estimated at 35,000 people, presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo asked her supporters to increase their number, confident of the positive outcome of the support she has been getting in all of her campaign rallies. Vice President Leni Robredo waves to her...
ZAMBOANGA CITY- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 9 destroyed some P34.4-million worth of illegal drugs at the Permex Producer and Exporter Corporation, one of Zamboanga city’s canning factories, on Monday, March 7. The destroyed drugs were composed of 5,608 grams of shabu...
ZAMBOANGA CITY- The Zamboanga City Health Office expressed alarm over the soaring number of dengue cases in Zamboanga City over the past two months. An employee of the City Health Office conducts fogging activities in one of the communities affected by the dengue virus. (Zambo LGU photo) Since...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- A total of 800 job seekers participated in a job fair sponsored by the Department of Labor and Employment-9 (DOLE-9) and the Zamboanga local government’s PESO office at a local mall on Thursday, Feb. 24. An applicant at the DOLE job fair in Zamboanga City drops her application...
ZAMBOANGA CITY- Two ministers have resigned while five others have been re-appointed as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) started its reorganization of Cabinet ministers. “Ongoing ang aming assessment and evaluation, at the same time hiring and re-hiring of ministers,”...
Twelve new cases of the Omicron variant were detected in Zamboanga City, bringing the total number of Omicron cases in the city to 29. Zamboanga City Health Office The twelve cases were detected from the February 11 genome sequencing results from the Philippine Genome Center. A case of the Delta...
Authorities seized some P1.6 million worth of smuggled cigarettes during a joint Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) operation in Zamboanga City. The operation stemmed from a report about the entry of smuggled cigarettes that have been stored in a truck. During an inspection on...
A 39-year-old female police officer from Zamboanga City died of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), becoming the latest fatality among the growing list of coronavirus-related deaths in the Philippine National Police (PNP). (Courtesy of Philippine National Police) Data from the PNP released on Tuesday,...
Taguig emerged as the seventh wealthiest city in the Philippines. The Commission on Audit (COA) released the annual financial report for local government units for the year 2020. Bonifacio Global City in Taguig (Screenshot from Google Maps) The report listed the top 10 provinces, cities and...
A boat repair facility funded through a foreign military financing grant was recently constructed at the Naval Station Rio Hondo in Zamboanga City. (Photo courtesy of the US Embassy in the Philippines) The facility will be utilized by the Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) Assault Boat Battalion. It was...
President Duterte was in a reflective mood Thursday, Dec. 2 as he tried to discourage local politicans in Zamboanga City from coveting the presidency. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the joint meeting of the NTF-RTF ELCAC in Zamboanga City on December 2, 2021 (Screenshot from Facebook live)...
President Duterte says it gives him "a little bit of pride" that he fulfilled "almost everything" that he promised to Filipinos when he ran for the Palace seat a few years ago. 'I TRIED MY BEST'--President Rodrigo Duterte talks about his campaign promises during his speech at the Port of Busay,...
