ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police arrested three colleagues for robbery in Barangay Tetuan here on Saturday, November 18. POLICE arrest three colleagues over a robbery incident in Zamboanga City. (PNP) The suspects were identified as Police Lt. Ariel J. Fernandez, 43, assigned to the Police...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Forty families lost their homes in a fire in a residential area in Upper Calarian here on Tuesday, November 14. RESIDENTS check what remained of their homes following a fire in Zamboanga City on Tuesday. (Photo via Liza Jocson) The Bureau of Fire Protection said the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Department of Health-9 has started the catch-up immunization program to boost the immunity of children in the Zamboanga Peninsula here on Monday, November 13. GOVERNMENT health workers immunize children during the MR-SIA vaccination campaign of the government early...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 destroyed illegal drugs valued at more than P42 million here on Monday, November 13. PDEA-9 personnel lead the destruction of illegal drugs in a local canning factory in Zamboanga City. (Photo via Liza Jocson) They consisted of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Thousands participated in the fourth quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) here on Thursday morning, November 9. EMPLOYEES of the Zamboanga City Hall participate in the fourth quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill in Zamboanga City on Thursday,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A huge boulder rolled on the side of a hill and crushed a farmer to death in an incident described as a freak accident in Pamucutan, Zamboanga City on Wednesday, November 8. The victim, Erwin Ituralde Salvador, and his two sons went to a sunflower farm on Wednesday night and fell...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe led the mass oath-taking of more than 1,500 newly elected barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan officials in this city on Wednesday, November 8. ZAMBOANGA City Mayor John Dalipe, Rep. Khymer Olaso, Vice Mayor Pinpin Pareja, DILG City Officer Ginagene Vaño-Uy, and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Social Security System (SSS), Bureau of Customs (BOC), and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Tuesday, November 7, in a hotel here for the social security coverage of job order and contractual personnel of these three offices who are not...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday announced that the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) has issued wage increase orders for private sector workers and domestic workers or “kasambahay” effective November 12. In Wage...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth more than P8 million were seized in this city on Monday, November 6. The Zamboanga 2nd Mobile Force Company and the Bureau of Customs were conducting seaborne patrol in the sea in Barangay Maasin when they spotted a motorized boat or “jungkong”...
Lt. Gen. William Gonzales, former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Inspector General, formally took over the helm of the Zamboanga City-based Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) on Friday, November 3. GONZALES (Armed Forces photo) Gonzales, a member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Thousands of residents cast their votes in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections here on Monday, October 30. VOTERS wait for their turn to vote in the barangay elections on October 30 outside an elementary school in Barangay Santa Catalina in Zamboanga City. (Photo...
