Tag: zamboanga

Malaking pawikan na-rescue sa Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay

IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (Eagle News) – Isang malaking pawikan ang nalambat ng mga mangingisda na mayroong bigat na 180 kilograms.  Ang nasabing pawikan ay kabilang sa species ng  green sea turtle na isa umanong endangered species. Ayon kay Felix Badon, Ipil MENRO, nahuli ng lambat ng mangingisda ang pawikan sa Sibakya, Barangay Sanito ng Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Agad itong ipinagbigay-alam sa kanilang tanggapan.  Ito na ang ika-98 marine sea turtle  na narescue ng LGU-Ipil mula noong taong […]

Abu Sayyaf suspek na konektado sa Sipadan hostage taking, arestado sa Zamboanga City

  ZAMBOANGA City (Eagle News) — Arestado ang isang hinihinalang miyembro ng Abu Sayyaf Group na konektado diumano sa  Sipadan hostage-taking noong taong 2000, sa Barangay Cawit sa Zamboanga City, nitong Biernes ng madaling araw (Enero 27, 2017). Mahigit na 16 na taon nga pagkatapos ng controversial na kidnapping incident na naging malaking balita noon sa buong mundo, ay naaresto na ang hinihinalang Abu Sayyaf suspect na kinilala bilang si Faizal Jaafar alias Jaafar Mundi. Kilala […]

Ex-hostage tells of terror as friends beheaded in Philippines

  INDANAN, Philippines (AFP) —  A Norwegian former hostage on Sunday described his psychological torture as he heard his friends being beheaded by Islamic militants during a year-long captivity in the southern Philippines.  A heavily bearded and gaunt Kjartan Sekkingstad, who was released on Saturday by the feared Abu Sayyaf group, also said he narrowly survived military attacks against his captors, with a bullet piercing his backpack. “Basically, I’ve been treated like a slave, carrying their stuff […]

Fil-Chinese, pinalaya na ng Abu Sayyaf

(Eagle News) — Pinalaya na ng bandidong Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) ang Filipino-Chinese sa Zamboanga City na dinukot ng naturang grupo noong Marso. Kinilala ng militar ang biktima na si Rian Tan Nuñez, 21. Matatandaang dinukot si Nuñez at ang lolo nitong si Antonio Tan, isang negosyante, sa Lapuyan Zamboanga del Sur noong Marso 23 sa pangunguna ng ASG sub-leader na si Alhabsy Misaya. Napag-alamang dinala sa Sulu ang mga biktima ngunit nagkahiwalay at hindi na […]

Accused illegal recruiter caught in Zamboanga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0VP-qxzyPY (Eagle News) — Zamboanga policemen arrested on Thursday (Feb.11)  an accused illegal recruiter who is also facing various cases of estafa while trying to escape the country and allegedly smuggle girls into Malaysia. Authorities identified the accused illegal recruiter as a certain Bless Grace Hernandez-Ardona, who was arrested at the passenger terminal of the Zamboanga Pier. Ardona, who also goes by the name Benito Affleck in social media, was also identified as one of […]

Black bugs umaatake sa ilang palayan sa Zamboanga

Nangangamba ngayon ang mga magsasaka sa barangay Manicahan sa Zamboanga City sa laki ng magiging epekto ng pag-atake ng black bugs sa kanilang mga palayan. Sa ulat ng Zamboanga City Agriculturist Office ang black bug o stem borer ay insektong naninira sa tangkay ng mga palay at nangingitlog tuwing tag-ulan dahilan ng agad ng pagrami ng mga ito. Ang pinakamabisa umanong pangpatay sa rice bugs ay ang pag-i-spray ng pesticides. Pinayuhan naman ang mga magsasaka […]

Police firearms “sealed” in Western Mindanao

    —————————————————————–   Chief Sup. Edgar Basbas, Regional Director Of Police Regional Office-9 in Zamboanga peninsula has presided the “muzzle taping” of the private firearms of  police officers to make sure that these will not be used in welcoming the new year, 2015. Basbas had warned the police officers who were not present in the said activity that they should immediately connect to their mother unit to let their issued firearms  be sealed of  […]

One dead, 11 injured as SUV Falls Off Cliff in Zambo

A teacher was killed while his 11 companions were injured when a sports utility vehicle he was driving  fell from a cliff in Barangay Bulaan, in Sibugay, Zamboanga early morning Monday (February 10).  Zamboanga Police identified the fatality as Abdullah de Guzman.  His passengers — five school officials and six students — all suffered injuries.