Zamboanga Sibugay 
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5 killed, 10 wounded in 14 ERVs in Western Mindanao
By JULES BENITEZ Mindanews ZAMBOANGA CITY– Five persons were killed and 10 others were wounded in 14 incidents of election related violence in the provinces covered by the Western Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (WesMinCom). WesMinCom chief Maj. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino also reported one incident of ballot snatching and the declaration »Read More
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Election Day: Most peaceful yet more violent?
AT LEAST a dozen people were killed and another dozen injured on Election Day today in what police declare as the “most peaceful elections so far” but in what a Commission on Elections official considers as more violent than the country’s past elections. Task Force Honest, Orderly and Peaceful Elections (Task Force HOPE) of the »Read More
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3 die in Zambo Sibugay encounter
By JOSEPH ARNEL DELIVERIO THREE armed persons were killed early Monday morning in a brief gunbattle with police operatives in R.T. Lim town in Zamboanga Sibugay province. Joint elements of the local police and the Philippine National Police Special Armed Forces provincial office were manning a checkpoint in Barangay Poblacion at 2 a.m. when an »Read More
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Sibugay radio station bombed
By JOSEPH ARNEL DELIVERIO Sibugay Express IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay.–A bomb exploded in front of radio station Magic 103 FM in Barangay Kitabog, Titay town, this province, early Monday evening. The station, which is owned by Sibugay governor George T. Hofer, is about 20 meters away from his residence. Wounded in the blast was Nestor Abando, »Read More
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Jalosjos clan eyes control of Zambo Sibugay
By JOSEPH ARNEL DELIVERIO Sibugay Express and VERA Files THE Court of Appeals, in a dramatic last-minute decision, has ordered Romeo “Jon-Jon” Jalosjos Jr. reinstated as a voter in Ipil town in Zamboanga Sibugay, allowing him to run for a congressional seat in the province’s second district despite his being the incumbent mayor of Tampilisan »Read More
