Mayor Celso Lobregat and boxing icon Manny Pacquiao during the Centennial celebration of City Hall. Wednesday night. -- Joey Bautista

Families, relatives and supporters of the late Rep. Wahab Akbar stage a peaceful rally in support of the preliminary hearing of the assassination case at the DOJ in Manila. (Inset) Basilan DepEd Supervisor Hadja Nurhaya A. Abdurahim, sister of the late Congressman Akbar. — Allen Abastillas courtesy FOTOSPEED

Enthused by the beauty and potentials of Zamboanga, Tourism Secretary Ace Durano has expressed full accord to the Asia’s Latin City branding of Zamboanga and promised to carry the new tag in its domestic and international promotional packages.

by Darwin Wee

The city’s various sectors have come with one consensus to strengthen their own respective ways to maintain peace initiatives throughout the city and in the entire region.

Boxing Champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao visited Mayor Celso Lobregat at City Hall Wednesday night during the culminating program of the City Hall centennial Anniversary celebration.

Newly-elected Sangguniang Kabataan Chairman Geno Nuño Johan of Taluksangay is being pushed by several sectors to run for the SK Federation presidency on December 6.

Mayor Celso Lobregat has initially released P8 million out of the city’s calamity fund for emergency relief operations for the victims of the storm surge that hit the coastal areas in the west coast and some island barangays.

Congressman Erbie A. Fabian (District 2) yesterday ordered his staff to distribute used clothings to over 50 residents of Talon-Talon and Mampang whose houses were destroyed by big waves and personal belongings lost in last Tuesday’s unexpected calamity.

by Dan Toribio Jr.

Four public elementary school teachers were held up by two gunmen in Barangay Tacling, Malangas, Zamboanga Sibugay last Monday morning.

A policeman was injured in a road accident along Maria Clara Lobregat Highway in Boalan last Wednesday morning.

by Allen Abastillas

The families, relatives and supporters of the late Rep. Wahab Akbar who was killed in a bomb attack at the House of Representatives last November 13, 2007 are very satisfied with the results of the investigation being carried out by the Philippine National Police as well as the arrest of some suspects.

by Al Alhabshi

If everything gets alright, Zamboanga City will see action in the next season of the          National Basketball Conference (NBC).

The government does not intend to counter a United Nations (UN) special rapporteur’s report that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is involved in the spate of extra-judicial killings of media men and leftist activists in the country.