ZAMBOANGA CITY – Thousands of liters of smuggled fuel on board a boat docked in a vessel docking facility here were seized by authorities on Saturday, September 9. The Coast Guard District Southwestern Mindanao, Bureau of Customs, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) found...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe here led a program commemorating the tenth anniversary of the infamous Zamboanga City siege on Saturday, September 9. Ten years ago on September 9, 2013, extremist rebels forced their way and held six barangays here hostage. The memorial ceremony involved a...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – This city joined the third quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill on Thursday, September 7. The activity, spearheaded by the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, aims to prepare the populace should a big tremor jolt this city. Participants from the city...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A barangay captain from Zamboanga Sibugay province and his brother, a former barangay councilor, were gunned down in a busy intersection here on Sunday night, September 3. Police identified the fatalities as Jul-Asmad Mawajil Anjawang, 56, barangay captain of Mamansaan, Mabuhay,...
Senator Francis Tolentino welcomed the triumphant hosting of the second regional leg of the Philippine ROTC Games (PRG) in Zamboanga City, saying this strengthens the country’s resolve to unite the country’s cadets in the years to come. Sen. Francis Tolentino (2nd from left) poses with the Army...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City government led by Mayor John Dalipe held a program and floral offering ceremony at Plaza Rizal here to commemorate National Heroes’ Day on Monday, August 28. MAYOR John Dalipe, Sen. Francis Tolentino, Vice Mayor Josephine Pareja, and city councilors lead...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Hundreds of Reserved Officers’ Training Corps cadets converged in Zamboanga City on Sunday, August 27, to compete in the first-ever 2023 Philippine ROTC Games Mindanao Regional Qualifying leg at the Joaquin Enriquez Memorial Sports Complex here. ROTC cadets join the opening...
Ten individuals who were alleged victims of human trafficking bound for Malaysia were rescued by joint government forces in Zamboanga City, the Philippine Navy (PN) said Saturday, August 26. Photo courtesy of Naval Forces Western Mindanao The victims were rescued at a wharf in Brgy. Baliwasan,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Most Rev. Julius Sullan Tonel was installed as the seventh archbishop of the Archdiocese of Zamboanga in a ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Zamboanga here. TONEL (center) The ceremony was officiated by his Archbishop of Manila Jose Cardinal...
Some 150 families lost their homes in a fire which gutted hundreds of houses in Barangay Canelar, Zamboanga City on Sunday, August 20. Mayor John Dalipe ordered city government offices to provide immediate response to hundreds of fire victims. Ten fire trucks rushed to the scene while the City...
BUTUAN CITY – A magnitude-4.3 earthquake jolted Zamboanga del Norte on Friday morning, August 18. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said earthquake was registered at 1:15 a.m. and its epicenter was 27 kilometers (kms) west of Baliguian, Zamboanga del Norte....
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe suspended classes in private and public schools here on Thursday, August 17, due to inclement weather. ZAMBOANGA City Disaster Risk Reduction Management personnel prepare equipment for rescue operations amid inclement weather. (City Hall PIO) Dalipe...
