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Heart disease number 1 cause of death

cherryhaya — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:58:31 +0000

CITY Health Officer Dr. Rodelin Agbulos advised the public, especially the younger ones, to be conscious of their lifestyle, saying heart disease registered to be the number one cause of deaths in Zamboanga City last year.

Agbulos said what is even more alarming is that the age bracket of the casualties is getting younger, citing the once coined as “disease of the aged” seemed to be prevalent among the younger generations, especially to those who are in their late 20’s.

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Binay visits flood-affected areas in Dapitan

cherryhaya — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:57:47 +0000

VICE President Jejomar Binay will inspect Monday the damages brought about by the flood that inundated 13 villages in Dapitan City.

Binay will also distribute relief goods to the affected families.

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Mayor turns over jeep, computers to local police

cherryhaya — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:56:01 +0000

THE City Government has turned over a four-by-four off-road vehicle and computer units to the Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO).

Mayor Celso Lobregat said the latest donation package forms part of his administration’s commitment to aggressively continue support and assistance to law enforcement agencies primarily aimed to sustain peace and security.

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Gunmen harass troops; 1 hurt

cherryhaya — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:25:58 +0000

Hundreds of fuel cards still unclaimed

cherryhaya — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0000

LAND Transportation Office (LTO) Regional Director Aminola Abaton has called on the public transport sector to take advantage of the assistance given them by the government.

Abaton made the call as he said there are still 700 unclaimed Pantawid Pasada cards in his office.

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Feeding programs set in flood-hit Dapitan villages

cherryhaya — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:24:10 +0000

AN OFFICIAL said Saturday that a series of feeding programs is set to be held in the villages that were inundated by flood in Dapitan City.

Councilor Apple Marie Agolong said the first beneficiary of the feeding program is Barangay Ilaya with venues at barangay hall and Bubunao.

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Police exec eyes comprehensive gun ban

cherryhaya — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:23:23 +0000

NEWLY installed Zamboanga Peninsula Police Office (ZPPO) director Nathaniel Estilles said they will enforce a comprehensive implementation of a gun ban in Zamboanga City.

Estilles's statement came after Mayor Celso Lobregat furnished him a copy of the joint guidelines on the implementation of the firearms and explosives ban in the city. The document was signed and agreed upon by concerned agencies including officials from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm).

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Farmer found dead hanging on coconut tree

cherryhaya — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:18:22 +0000

A FARMER who left home to pasture his farm animals and failed to return home was found dead hanging on a coconut tree in Zamboanga del Norte, the police reported.

The Zamboanga del Norte police office reported that the victim was found dead around 11 a.m. Wednesday in his farm in the village of Malintoboan, Labason municipality.

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Two homeowners groups win gardening competition

cherryhaya — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:17:43 +0000

TWO association of homeowners received each P300,000 worth of infrastructure projects after they were adjudged as the grand winners in the City Government-initiated gardening competition.

The competition, dubbed as “Jardin na Comunidad (Community Gardening)” is intended to promote food sufficiency in Zamboanga City.

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Five young leaders cited with honors

cherryhaya — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:16:16 +0000

Flood hits Dapitan City

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:03:01 +0000

Bomb components recovery prevented bombing

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:15:15 +0000

THE recovery of bomb-making materials on Wednesday has prevented the possible loss of lives and destruction of properties in Zamboanga City, military officials said.

Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) chief Major General Noel Coballes said Thursday that the materials once assembled into bombs could cause big destruction as well as kill or inflict injuries.

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Transportation office’s revenue collection marks P33-M increase

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:14:45 +0000

THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Zamboanga Peninsula has registered an increase of P33 million in its revenue collection last year compared to that in 2010.

LTO Regional Director Aminola Abaton said that his office have collected a total of P302.5 million last year which is higher by P33 million compared to the P269.5 million revenue collection in 2010.

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PhilHealth introduces online registration

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:14:15 +0000

THE government-run Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is introducing an online registration for prospective members in a bid to bolster the agency's aggressive membership campaign, a top PhilHealth official announced.

Philhealth vice president for Western Mindanao Romeo Alberto said the online registration is expected to hasten the membership process into the government health insurance program, which is now mandatory.

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Zamboangueño senator remembered

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:13:43 +0000

MAYOR Celso Lobregat has led the Zamboangueños Thursday in a commemorative program to pay tribute to the first and only Zamboangueño to become a senator, Roseller T. Lim.

Dubbed as “Dia di Roseller T. Lim,” February 9 marked the 97th birthday of the late senator who also had served as congressman of the then Zamboanga Province and as a Court of Appeals Justice.

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Bomb-making materials seized

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:55:33 +0000

City government builds P45-million market complex

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:41:40 +0000

Overseas welfare office offers scholarships

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:39:57 +0000

City honors Zamboangueño lawmaker

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:38:12 +0000

Phivolcs: Stay calm but ready

cherryhaya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:32:05 +0000

Gunmen kill canning firm executive

cherryhaya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:30:44 +0000

European tourists' abductors remain unknown

cherryhaya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:34:04 +0000

Man stabs his girlfriend's ex-lover

cherryhaya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:30:16 +0000

Spanish envoy to keynote Charter Day celebration

cherryhaya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:29:29 +0000

Short film competition set

cherryhaya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:28:45 +0000

More projects implemented despite IRA reduction

cherryhaya — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:35 +0000

City opens achievers' award nomination

cherryhaya — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:17:31 +0000

THE City Government’s search for Local Achievers’ Awards given to outstanding Zamboangueños is now open for nomination for the “Dia de la Ciudad de Zamboanga” celebration set on the third week of this month.

In a statement, the Office of the City Mayor said the search is an annual activity organized by the City Government and forms one of the highlights of Dia de Zamboanga celebration on February 26.

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Institutions urged to get Technicom program

cherryhaya — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:16:18 +0000

THE Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through its Technology Innovation for Commercialization (Technicom) Program, invites the network institutions to submit project proposals for possible Technicom assistance.

DOST Regional Director Brenda Nazareth-Manzano said Technicom program provides funding for commercial prototype development, pilot plant production and intellectual property protection.

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353 infra projects done in 2011

cherryhaya — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:51:20 +0000

City invest millions for education-related projects

cherryhaya — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:50:09 +0000

Drug pusher falls

cherryhaya — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:49:25 +0000

POLICE operatives have arrested an alleged drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in this city, a police official disclosed Saturday.

Police Station 7 Chief Larry Domingo, said the buy-bust operation was conducted around 6 p.m. Friday outside a bar along Governor Camins Avenue in this city.

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Gunman kills OFW

cherryhaya — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:48:52 +0000

A LONE gunman killed an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in front of the latter’s store in an east coast village of this city, a police official disclosed.

Police Station 6 commander, Chief Inspector Felixberto Martinez, said the incident happened around 6:15 p.m. Thursday in the village of Arena Blanco, 9.6 kilometers east of this city.

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No ransom demand yet for Europeans

cherryhaya — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:39:12 +0000

ZAMBOANGA -- Police said local thugs are likely to have abducted two European tourists in Tawi-Tawi province, not al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf bandits.

Police Director Felicisimo Khu said Friday the kidnappers have made no contact or ransom demand.

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US envoy: Sulu airstrike a serious blow vs terror

cherryhaya — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:28:56 +0000

IT gab delegates urged to be Mindanao’s ambassadors

cherryhaya — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:27:51 +0000

MAYOR Celso Lobregat challenged Friday the delegates of the 3rd Philippine Society of Information Technology Students (PSITS) Regional ICT Convention to be ambassadors of Mindanao even if the region has become a victim of negative perception.

“As information and communication technologists, it is your obligation, your responsibility, to bring about the good, the positive and the best of your own places,” Lobregat told the 950 regional ICT convention delegates coming from all over Western Mindanao.

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All set for ‘Mindanao Run for Hope’

cherryhaya — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:27:06 +0000

ALL is set for the conduct of the “Run for Hope” on Sunday, February 5, in six key cities in Mindanao.

Dubbed as “PhilHealth Run: The Mindanao Run for Hope,” the event will be simultaneously held in the cities of Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, Koronadal, Marawi and Zamboanga.

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Vigilance urged amid abduction in Tawi-Tawi

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:49:09 +0000

off shore Parangan, Panglima Sugala municipality, Tawi-Tawi, by five gunmen.

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Airstrike kills 3 terrorist leaders, 12 members

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:03:12 +0000

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Updated) -- The Philippine military said it killed Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a US-backed airstrike marking one of the region's biggest anti-terrorism successes in recent years.

The dawn strike targeting a militant camp in the province of Sulu killed Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, a top leader of the regional al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror network, said military spokesman Colonel Marcelo Burgos.

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Zamboangueño wins lotto jackpot prize

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:10:37 +0000

CHIEF Lottery Operations Officer Raul Regondola announced that a Zamboangueño is now a millionaire after winning the 6/42 Lotto jackpot prize last January 31.

Based on the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office website, there was only one winner in January 31's 6/42 Lotto draw, which has a jackpot prize of P28,027,321.20.

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Business permit renewal increases

dr_tangarorang — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:09:50 +0000

MAYOR Celso Lobregat reported Thursday an increase in the number of business permit renewals in Zamboanga City, saying this will consequently result in a hike in business tax collections.

Lobregat said the increase is an indication of the people’s confidence to invest in the city.

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Abducted Filipino guide in Tawi-Tawi escapes

arielbcatubig — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:03:00 +0000

ZAMBOANGA CITY (2nd update, 3:04 p.m.) -- The Filipino guide who was abducted Wednesday together with two foreign nationals in Tawi-Tawi was able to escape from his abductors.

Governor Sadikul Sahali said Thursday that Ivan Sarenas of Davao City jumped out of the boat of the kidnappers later Wednesday and was rescued by local fishermen.

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Gunmen seize 2 Europeans, Filipino guide off Tawi-Tawi

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:16:14 +0000

‘Fertilize coconut trees with salt’

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:13:05 +0000

AN OFFICIAL of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) has advised the coconut farmers in the island province of Basilan to fertilize their coconut trees with salt.

PCA coconut development officer Onie Hayawan issued the advice citing PCA studies indicated that plain salt used as fertilizer increases the volume of harvest of nuts and the thickness of the coconut meat.

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Birthday party guest killed

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:12:30 +0000

A BIRTHDAY party turned bloody after a visitor was hacked to death by the host's husband, who was aided by two other visitors, in an east coast village of Zamboanga City, a police official said Wednesday.

Police Station 6 commander Chief Inspector Felixberto Martinez reported that the incident took place Monday evening in Habibon Drive, Mampang village, nine kilometers east of the city.

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Mayor eyes establishment of Science park

dr_tangarorang — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:11:02 +0000

CITY Mayor Celso Lobregat passed on Wednesday a proposal to establish a Science Park at Jardin Maria Clara in the village of Pasonanca, north of Zamboanga City.

This is to provide a science-and-technology-oriented and a proven effective educational facility for Zamboanga City’s young and old populace.

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Pushers fall, P50,000 shabu seized

dr_tangarorang — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:50:16 +0000

1 killed, 2 others wounded in bolo bout

dr_tangarorang — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:49:33 +0000

Mayor convenes peace council

dr_tangarorang — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:48:51 +0000

Malacañang finances road concreting project

cherryhaya — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:06:41 +0000

Agriculture department pushes Farmers' Field School

cherryhaya — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:05:23 +0000

AT LEAST 30 farmers, housewives and out-of-school youths from two east coast barangays of Zamboanga City have recently completed a four-month Farmers Field School (FFS) on Palay Check.

The graduates, who were awarded certificate of completion in a graduation ceremony last week, are from the villages of Tagasilay and Vitali, 61 and 73 kilometers east of the city, respectively.

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