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With pride and passion glimmering on their faces, a group of 30 women of barangay Dansulao asserted “we are working wives, not just plain housewives”. This was how they replied in unison when asked about whether they are employed or not.

Traveling for about six hours seemed tireless at all upon seeing the cheerfulness of the group eagerly waiting to share the many good and noble stories they have developed through sheer desire and dedication to alleviate their plight.

When it comes to exploitation, the Left has no equal.

The planned transfer of Bayan Muna representative Satur Ocampo to face murder charges in Hilongos, Leyte shows the left’s propensity to exploit a situation in their favor.

The foreign-supported Abu Sayyaf Group has stooped to new levels of cruelty and malice with its recent threats against Catholic priests, nuns, and schoolteachers in Basilan Province. As a result of the extremist group’s terrible actions, all Claretian missionary schools have been “closed indefinitely,” preventing all students –- including many Muslims -– from receiving the benefits of a proper education. These threats against the schools make clear that the Abu Sayyaf Group will harm anyone to fulfill its agenda of dominating the Philippines, no matter what the victim’s religion.

Sister Felipa Javen, a teacher at Claret High School in Maluso town, was told of the threat by the parents of a Muslim student during a meeting late last year. The parents said they had information that the Abu Sayyaf Group had targeted the school and the faculty for attack, advising the nuns to stay inside. The parents feared that the terrorist group would try to kill the nuns.

“We have been reaching the poorest of the poor all these years and we shall continue to do so because this is part of our mission.”

This was emphasized by Western Mindanao State University president Dr. Eldigario Gonzales in his message to the poor residents of Mangal in Baliwasan recently.

National Computer Center (NCC) Regional Director Teresa Camba has highly praised Mayor Celso Lobregat’s computerization program saying that it is “one of the few initiatives being done by a city mayor in the country”.

“This is a very good project reaching out to every school in the city,” Dir. Camba said. “We at the NCC are very much supportive of this project and so we’re partnering with the mayor”.

To harmonize and unite the tuberculosis control efforts in the city, Mayor Celso Lobregat has created the Hermosa TB Council, a group that will foresee and supervise a unified and centralized TB control intervention program.

Formalized through Executive Order CL 130-2007, the Hermosa TB Council is based on EO 187 instituting a comprehensive and unified policy for the tuberculosis control in the Philippines and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) memorandum circular 98-155 otherwise known as the Local Government TB control strategy enjoining the local chief executives to create an anti-TB task force in their respective localities.

Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday served a warrant of arrest against a policeman, who was linked to a holdup-robbery several moths ago.

The NBI agents detained PO2 Ramil Sabtula in their office after arresting him.

Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Jaime G. Caringal led officials in the inauguration of the Guipos police station in Zamboanga del Sur last Thursday, March 22, 2007.

Caringal was joined by Zamboanga Del Sur Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Ramon M. Ochotorena and Zamboanga Del Sur officials led by Rep. Antonio Cerilles

Lamitan Mayor Roderick “Orig” Furigay yesterday morning led partymates of the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP)-Lakas coalition in the filing of the Certificate of Candidacy (COC) at the provincial office of the Commission on Elections adjacent to the Municipal Hall building in Lamitan, Basilan.

Thousands of supporters to include gubernatorial aspirant Congressman Gerry Salapuddin and vice gubernatorial aspirant Jim Salliman Hataman joined Furigay in a long march from his residence to the Comelec office for the significant filing of the COC.

The 1st ever extreme adventure challenge will kick-off today in Zamboanga City forming part of the city’s summer festival.

Congressman Erbie A. Fabian and the Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (ZamboEcozone) will host today the 1st Eco-Adventure Race featuring various extreme games involving physical, emotional, and mental challenges to be be confronted by participants.

Police arrested three ex-convicts last Thursday night after they were tagged as behind the robbery that took place at a cell phone shop the other night along Pura Brillantes St.

Arrested were Joel Barbas, 46, Jayson Perez, 25 and Eulogio Canoy, 42.

The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) is studying the possibility of phasing-out the Treasury bill (T-bill) market sometime next year.

National Treasurer Omar Cruz on Monday told reporters this is because T-bills have become illiquid thus, investors now have greater appetite for Treasury bonds (T-bonds) and there is now less need for T-bills because of enough supply of off-the-run or maturing T-bonds.