A fire allegedly started by a drug suspect razed 42 houses in Barangay Tumaga, Zamboanga City, on Monday, May 5. The suspect, Joshua Willy Santos, reportedly started the fire inside his room which spread to other houses. Police are investigating the involvement of Santos who repeatedly threatened...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A softdrinks plant executive was wounded and his driver was killed in an ambush by riding-in-tandem gunmen here on Monday night, May 5. Police identified the fatality as Junjun. The wounded was Che Stalin Rodriguez, general manager of the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant and a resident...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A total of 13 4Ps beneficiaries were hired on the spot during the 123rd Labor Day job fair in a mall here. 4Ps applicants were hired on the spot during the 123rd Labor Day Job Fair spearheaded by DOLE-9. (DOLE-9) The applicants were among 500 exited and exiting 4Ps...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Five-hundred sixty-six bundles of official ballots for the elections were turned over for safekeeping at the City Treasurer's Office at the Zamboanga City Hall on Wednesday, April 30. BALLOTS are unloaded for storage at the City Treasurer’s Office until distribution a day...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A man was bitten by a crocodile after he reportedly went inside its cage in a wetlands park in Siay town, Zamboanga Sibugay province on Monday, April 28. A report from the Siay Municipal Police Station said the victim was bitten on the right leg by the reptile when lawmen...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A town mayor from Basilan province and nine others were injured when the speedboat they were riding caught fire shortly after leaving a private wharf in Barangay Baliwasan on Wednesday. NANOH'S ill-fated speedboat. Zamboanga City Fire District Marshal Supt. Leo Pioquinto...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A fisherman tagged as a high-value individual in the illegal drugs trade was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Kasanyangan here on Tuesday, April 22. Police Lt. Aldazer Sahisa, team leader of Special Operations Unit-9, identified the suspect as Marjan Arani Diejo, 32,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A mayoral candidate and head of a militia group was found dead inside his residence in Barangay Guiwan here on Tuesday, April 22. NEGRETE The candidate was identified as Orlando San Luis Negrete, 80, chairman of the Zamboanga Militia. His body was found sitting at the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two persons were killed and 14 individuals were injured when a delivery van lost its brakes and rammed six vehicles in a chain collision on Black Saturday in front of a police station in Dumalinao municipality, Zamboanga del Sur province. THE ill-fated pickup truck. (PNP photo)...
Trabaho party-list reiterated its vow to support workers as they recently barnstormed the province of Zamboanga del Norte. The party-list represented by second nominee Ninai Chavez earned support from the slate of Mayor Darel Dexter Uy, who is running for governor of the province during the Kuyog...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - More than 20,000 Catholic devotees attended the yearly pilgrimage to the Abong Abong Park in Pasonanca here for the Holy Week. The Mobile Command Center estimated the crowd on Maundy Thursday to have reached 20,592. People continue to troop to the area today, Good...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A wayward dump truck hit 11 vehicles in a multi-vehicle collision in Barangay San Jose Gusu here on Monday night, April 14. THE wayward dump truck in Zamboanga City. Investigation said the yellow dump truck with license plates APA-3128 driven by Japinan...
