Mayor Celso Lobregat exchanges pleasantries with Brig. Gen. Lorenzo Sumicad, new chief of the 530th Air Base Wing and a guest after the turn over of command at EAAB. —  Joey Bautista

Mayor Celso Lobregat exchanges pleasantries with Brig. Gen. Lorenzo Sumicad, new chief of the 530th Air Base Wing and a guest after the turn over of command at EAAB. —  Joey Bautista

Jennifer R. Tibayan

Dist. 2 Cong. Erbie A. Fabian, chairman of the House Committee on Government Enterprises and Privatization,  presides a hearing on the GSIS, SSS and NFA.

Dengue cases in the city have tremendously decreased four days after a citywide cleanup day carried out by different government agencies led by the City Health Office (CHO), NGOs and other private groups.

Complaints on the GSIS flooded yesterday’s hearing of the House Committee on Government Enterprises and Privatization chaired by Zamboanga City Congressman Erbie A. Fabian as it went through its hearings of the first three government owned and controlled corporations or GOCCs.

Vice Mayor Cesar Ituralde yesterday said all the members of the City Council, the Office of the City Secretary and all the rank and file employees of the local legislative body will continue to hold office in the Sangguniang Panlungsod Building pending the official recommendation of the City Engineer’s Office whether to move to a temporary relocation site when needed repair and rehabilitation of the edifice will start.

District 1 Representative Beng Climaco has sought President Aquino’s intervention in the case of a Zamboangueno couple who have been sentenced by the Malaysian Court to die by hanging for drug trafficking.

Police have announced that the seven men who were arrested in Talabaan were behind the series of robberies and holdups that took place in separate places in the city proper in the past few months.

Councilor Rogelio “Gerky” Valesco yesterday commended all Muslims here and abroad on their successful observance of the Holy Month of Ramadan, a period of fasting or abstinence from worldly things which ends at sunset today.

The 9th Regional Public Safety Battalion has deployed 84 police troopers with three officers in Zamboanga City as security augmentation to the City Police Office.

The famous world boxing champion and Sarangani province Lone District Representative Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao has asked the assistance of the city government of Zamboanga, through his friend and “compadre” District 2 Councilor Rommel Agan, to inform the people of Zamboanga that he has no knowledge of an alleged lending firm bringing the name of his congressional office and his own created foundation.

Lovely 16-year old Jennifer R. Tibayan, a fourth year lass of Zion Evangelical School was adjudged recently as the Festival Queen during the opening of the Science and Math Month celebration held at the Divisoria High School, this city. The beauty and brainy tilt was participated in by 16 high school students representing from public and private schools in Region 9.

A barangay tanod was killed while his wife narrowly escaped death in a gun attack staged by an unidentified gunman along the border of Calabasa and Buenavista last Tuesday night.

Brig. Gen. Carlix P. Donila, who officially relinquished his post as commander of the Philippine Air Force’s 530th Air Base Wing to Brig Gen. Lorenzo Sumicad yesterday, expressed his appreciation and gratitude to Mayor Celso Lobregat for implementing numerous infrastructure projects at the EAAB.