Tabina, Zamboanga del Sur ZAMBOANGA CITY - Gunmen divested a town councilor seeking re-election and one of his supporters of cash and valuables right at the official's residential compound in Zamboanga del Sur, the police disclosed Saturday. Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) director, identified the victim as Councilor Alex Aldie Amores, 51, of Tabina town and his supporter, Jeffrey Elisino, 35. The incident happened in Purok Arbor, Barangay Malim at about 10:20 a.m. Friday. Simborio said at the time of the incident, political leaders and supporters of Team Dayondon-Poloyapoy were gathering for a meeting when two pick-up trucks arrived and parked in front of Amores' house. The team is led by incumbent Tabina Mayor Tirsendo Poloyapoy and Vice Mayor Greg Dayondon. Simborio said the seven still-unidentified gunmen got out of the two vehicles, barged into Amores' compound, and demanded everyone to drop while firing their guns into the ai
BUSTED PUSHER. Suspected drug peddler Yusoph Gumander (seated) is arrested by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency agents during a drug buy-bust in Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao on Thursday (Jan. 27. 2022). PDEA agents seized more than PHP1 million worth of shabu (inset) from the suspect. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-BARMM) SULTAN MASTURA, Maguindanao - A drug suspect was arrested and more than PHP1 million were seized during a buy-bust here, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency - Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) disclosed Friday. In an interview by reporters, Agent Asnawi Salik, a PDEA-BARMM senior officer, identified the suspect as Yusoph Gumander, 37, of Barangay Bungabong in this town. Salik said the suspect was collared following an entrapment on Thursday afternoon. "He (Gumander) attempted to flee but found himself surrounded by plainclothes agents after the transaction with our poseur-buyers was carried out," Salik said. Seized from the suspect wer
SO LONG, LOLA ISKA. Negrense supercentenarian Francisca Montes Susano, with the plaque she received from the National Commission on Senior Citizens during her 124th last Sept. 11. The native of Kabankalan City, considered the oldest living Filipino, died Monday night (Nov. 22, 2021).(Photo courtesy of City of Kabankalan) BACOLOD CITY - The City of Kabankalan in Negros Occidental led in paying tribute to supercentenarian Francisca Montes Susano, who died at the age of 124 on Monday night. In a statement of the city government hours after her passing, Mayor Pedro Zayco, Vice Mayor Raul Rivera, and the rest of the city officials expressed their condolences and joined the Susano family in prayers. "It is with sadness in our hearts when we received the news that our beloved Lola Francisca Susano passed away," they said. Susano, a native of the southern Negros city's Barangay Oringao, has been put in the spotlight in recent years for being the oldest living Filipino, and probab