Despite local government’s efforts to curb the spread of dengue, the mosquito-borne disease registers a steady rise in cases with death toll reaching 19 as of press time.

In a bid to help the city government in the citywide anti-dengue campaign, the office of District 2 Congressman Erbie A. Fabian, in close coordination with the different barangay councils, has resumed anti-dengue fumigation in the barangay level.

District 2 Councilor Benjamin “ Nonong” Guingona III yesterday took his oath of office as new board member of the Zamboanga Ecozone and Freeport representing the City Council.

Police confirmed yesterday that cases of murder and frustrated murder have been forwarded to the City Prosecutor Office against a man who shot and stabbed to death a woman last month in Canelar Presa.

A resident of Tugbungan was shot and wounded by a gunman along Gov. Camins Avenue at dawn yesterday.

Dr. Grace J. Rebollos, president of the Western Mindanao State University (WMSU), is among the women presidents of leading state colleges and universities (SCUs) in the country today, featured in a story that came out in the July 29 issue of The Philippines Star – Education Section entitled “More women at the helm of SCUs” by Rudy A. Fernandez.

Zamboanga City’s dream of having a bypass or circumferential road linking the east coast to the west coast will soon be realized.

Mayor Celso Lobregat last night addressed some 300 businessmen from Taiwan in line with his intensified effort to sell Zamboanga City to other parts of the country and the world.

The city government has launched a renewed campaign against rugby sniffing boys and other street children in view of rising incidences of crime including prostitution due to rugby sniffing.

District 1 Representative Beng Climaco is pleased and delighted that the Mindanao situation specifically concerning the peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was elaborated and highlighted in President Noynoy Aquino’s state of the nation address (SONA) last Monday.

A mother and her three-year-old daughter were wounded in a shotgun attack in their house at Sittio Nil, Barangay Malian, Gutalac, Zamboanga del Norte last Tuesday.

Malacanang will study the long-proposed privatization of sequestered government television stations so this matter can be dealt with accordingly.

A 38-year-old man of Barangay Kayok, Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte was stabbed dead last Tuesday night.

The private sector and the government have joined hands to solve health inequities in poor areas, in Western Mindanao.

Councilor Benjamin “ Nonong” Guingona III takes his oath of office as a new board member of the Zamboanga Ecozone officiated by Chairman Georgina P. Yu at the Astoria Hotel. - Allen Abastillas