A restaurant owner was shot dead Monday night, while three men were wounded in a hotel shootout yesterday afternoon in a continuous outbreak of violence in Zamboanga City.

Mayor Celso Lobregat has urged the catholic faithful to engage in deep reflection and renewal during the Holy Week and hoped that strengthened faith will bring about peace and unity in Zamboanga.

Mayor Celso Lobregat has urged the catholic faithful to engage in deep reflection and renewal during the Holy Week and hoped that strengthened faith will bring about peace and unity in Zamboanga.

District 2 Congressman Erbie A. Fabian has enjoined all catholic faithfuls to observe this Holy Week, particularly starting Maundy Thursday, with truly solemn activities, like prayers, meditations and reflections.

Zamboanga City continues to enjoy pollution free air.

A two-year-old boy was killed after he was accidentally bumped by a passenger vehicle in Campo Islam last Sunday night.

Even with only five days since the official start of the campaign for local candidates, mayoralty aspirant Mannix Dalipe has been noted as obviously impressed by the warm reception and pledges of support he and the NPC party have been receiving from local residents especially from ordinary workers, sari-sari stores and eateries operators, housewives and the youth sector during their campaign sorties in the barangays of Tumaga, Tetuan Sta. Maria, Tulungatung, Baluno and Southcom Village.

Police Turista Office will be put up at the Pagadian City Airport in Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur before the start of the first flight of a commercial airlines that will operate on the third week of April.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development convened the technical staff of the Regional Standards and Regulations Unit of the 16 regions for a year-end performance evaluation last February at the BayView Hotel at Roxas Boulevard.

The Department of Health (DOH), citing latest laboratory results of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and local government units (LGUs), warned on Monday of paralytic shellfish or red tide poisoning in the areas of Dumanquillas Bay in Zamboanga del Sur; Bislig Bay in Bislig City, Surigao del Sur; Murcielagos Bay in Zamboanga del Norte and Misamis Occidental, and Matarinao Bay in Eastern Samar.

Liberal Party senatorial bet, Dr. Martin Bautista, said yesterday that nothing could have been done to save the brother of NP bet Manny Villar from leukemia at the time the young Danny Villar had the deadly disease.

It?s all systems go for the observance of the Holy Week as various government and concerned private agencies have already laid up security measures to maintain public safety and order.

When a politician is desperate for votes, he will say anything to lure voters to his side. Take, for example, the issue of the regional capital. When three excellent and brilliant lawyers Eduardo Atilano (may his soul rest in peace), Vicente R. Solis (de Calle Real) and Abelardo Climaco, Jr. (de Anuling), together with a taxpayer named Immanuel, went to the Supreme Court to question the validity of the Executive Order No. 429 issued by the late President Corazon C. Aquino, mother of presidential aspirant Noynoy Aquino, it took the High Tribunal three years to issue a verdict. It said that the president is empowered to realign administrative regions of the country which effectively transferred the regional capital of Region 9 from Zamboanga to Pagadian City.

Let?s admit it, the nursing profession is little understood by lay people. It is true that many do not know what nurses really do or how educated they are.

Media is funny. Obviously, not all the time, but I must say, very many times.