ILIGAN CITY – Five members of a criminal group operating in the Zamboanga Peninsula surrendered to the Army 44th Infantry Battalion in Purok Bougainvilla, Barangay Loboc, Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay on Thursday, June 29. Task Force ZamPeLan commander Major Gen. Antonio Nafarrete identified the...
By Henrylito D. Tacio With the high cost of living these days, it pays not to depend only on your main job. Try to do something on the side. That is what Wilbert C. Galo, a 47-year-old aide of Ricky Inodioan, the vice mayor of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, does. “Even though I have a job at the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A female employee of the local government of Naga municipality in Zamboanga Sibugay province was shot dead by a still unidentified assailant in RT Lim municipality, Zamboanga Sibugay on Saturday, June 3. Police Major Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-9 information...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 52-year-old driver died after the cargo truck he was driving plunged into cliff on the national highway in Barangay Lumbog, municipality of Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay province on Tuesday, May 16. MOTORCYCLES hang at the back of a cargo truck which plunged and fell on its side...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police arrested a militiaman for indiscriminately firing two guns inside a Philippine Army detachment in the municipality of Mabuhay, Zamboanga Sibugay province, on Tuesday night, May 9. Police Major Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-9 information officer, said the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – An elderly businessman found an abandoned newborn baby girl in a remote area in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay on Friday, March 10. Col. Eduard Mallo, Zamboanga Sibugay police director, said Norberto Benedicto, 80, found the infant in a banana plantation in Purok Paradise,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – A woman and her companion died when their motorcycle collided head-on with a passenger bus on New Year’s Eve in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay. Col. Eduard Mallo, Zamboanga Sibugay police director, identified the fatalities as Nepthalie Rhian Blanco, 25, driver of the...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is set to launch a water source system, which it said, would benefit local farmers in Zamboanga Sibugay. The project is called Community Managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (CPWASH) and DAR officials said it it promises to boost vegetable...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – An official of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) was killed in an accidental firing at his rented home in Zamboanga Sibugay, police said Monday, July 25. Police Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office- Zamboanga Peninsula (PRO-9) director, said Akmad...
If elected president, Vice President Leni Robredo will empower local fishing communities in the country by providing them much-needed resources to keep them operationalize, taking inspiration from a thriving mangrove rehabilitation project in Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay. (Photo courtesy of the...
(PHIVOLCS) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded a 5.0-magnitude earthquake in Zamboanga Sibugay on Wednesday evening, Aug. 25. Phivolcs said the epicenter of the earthquake was traced at 9 kilometers (km) southeast of Olutanga, Zamboanga Sibugay at around 8:03...
A local machine shop in Zamboanga Sibugay is now a licensee of the Department of Science and Technology-Metals Industry Research and Development Center’s (DOST-MIRDC) abaca fiber stripping technology. (DOST-MIRDC) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said a non-exclusive limited...
