DAVAO CITY Four remote barangays in Maguindanao del Sur have their new barangay health stations (BHS), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said. This would now provide easier and proximate access to health services in Maguindanao del Sur, a new province carved out from the lone Maguindanao province, where before residents have…
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Security forces have intercepted another shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth PHP590,000, bringing to more than PHP2.4 million the contrabands seized during the past two days in Region 9, authorities said Friday. Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula (PRO-9) director, said the latest batch of assorted smuggled cigarettes shipment was seized on midnight Thursday in Barangay Buenavista, this city. "Before the confiscation, troopers from the Army's 74th Infantry Battalion's Bravo Company were conducting a checkpoint in Barangay Curuan when a speeding vehicle passed by and did not stop," he said. The troops alerted their companions stationed at the detachment in Barangay Muti but the vehicle did not show up prompting the 74th IB troops to launch a search. Simborio said the vehicle along with its cargo was later found abandoned in nearby Barangay Buenavista, which is located between Curuan and Muti. The troops turned over