FREE SURGERY. Doctors operate on a child with cleft lip in Zamboanga City on Friday (Jan. 28, 2022), as part of the free surgery project of the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), initiated in partnership with Craciofacial Project Philippines Inc. Volunteer physicians from Metro Manila performed the free surgery at Camp Navarro General Hospital, the military medical facility in Zamboanga City. (Photo courtesy of Westmincom Public Information Office) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Thirty-five children born with cleft lip or cleft palate benefitted from the free surgery project of the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) in partnership with the Advance Craniofacial Project Philippines Inc. (ACPPI). The ACPPI is a non-profit organization that gives free operation to people with cleft lip or cleft palate. Lt. Gen. Alfredo Rosario Jr., commander of the Westmincom, said in a statement Saturday the patients underwent surgery Friday at Camp Navarro General Hospital (CGNH), the military hospital in the c
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SMUGGLED CIGARETTES. Personnel of the Bureau of Customs and Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) conduct a joint inventory of the smuggled cigarettes at the Naval Station Romulo Espaldon in Zamboanga City. Operatives of the NFWM seized the smuggled cigarettes worth PHP9.7 million while on maritime patrol Saturday (Jan. 22, 2022) off Sulade Island in Parang municipality, Sulu. (Photo courtesy of NFWM) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Operatives of the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) have seized some PHP9.7 million worth of smuggled cigarettes off Sulade Island in Parang, Sulu province, a top NFWM official disclosed Monday. In a statement, Rear Adm. Toribio Adaci Jr., NFWM commander, said the smuggled cigarettes were intercepted and seized Saturday some 8.4 nautical miles northwest of Sulade Island of Parang municipality. Adaci said navy men aboard Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (BA489) were conducting maritime patrol while en route to Tawi-Tawi when they chanced upon the two "jungkong-type"
Published July 20, 2021, 1:19 PM
DAVAO CITY – City Mayor Sara Duterte has responded to the question of why she is going around the country.
“It is true that there is a pandemic but it will not suspend the filing of COCs (certificates of candidacy) in October or postpone the elections on May 2022. A decision has to be made regarding my political career with or without the pandemic,” the presidential daughter said in a statement on Monday, July 19.
Duterte has recently expressed that she is open to run for president in 2022.
“I have to be resilient. I have divided my entire week between my work as Mayor, my politics, and my family,” she said.