ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) -Notwithstanding its defeat by a technicality, the city
council Committee on Good Government will continue its investigation against
alleged anomaly in the barangay government of Talon Talon.
City Councilor Juan Kim Elago said
that there is the possibility that the guilty person will be terminated from
the service if found guilty of grave misconduct and dishonesty,”.
Elago said that while the
motion ...
Monday, December 1, 2014
Seven councilors outvoted by six in move to suspend barrio official
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) -Strange as it may seem, majority was not the rule when the
councilors voted on a proposed resolution to impose a preventive suspension
order on a barangay official of Talon Talon whose case was brought to the City
Council Committee on Good Government.
“I am mandated to perform my job’”
Councilor Melchor “Mel” Saddain said.
Saddain who chairs the
Committee on Good Government together...
Mayor orders police crackdown Against motorcycle drag racers
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) -Police authorities Sunday dawn impounded 9
motorcycles and a luxury vehicle and their drivers issued with citation tickets
and temporary operator’s permits (TOPS) for alleged involvement in the illegal
drag racing activity in major streets downtown.
This, as Mayor Beng Climaco ordered an
intensified drive against drag racers due to persisting complaints concerning
the illegal activity. Areas specified in the complaints...
Anti-jay walking drive steps up
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) City Administrator Antonio
Orendain, Jr. said the anti-jay campaign which started Monday has been gaining
success as most people are learning to use the pedestrian lanes when crossing
the streets downtown.
Orendain explained that the campaign was not
intended to make money for the city government, but to educate the people,
especially the young ones, in observing traffic and pedestrian rules and
regulations.
He said the...
City gov’t sees delay in Dec. 15 deadline for full transfer of IDPs
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) Following questions posed on
the quality of housing units for the internally displaced persons (IDPs)
resulting from the September 2013 siege, Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar
said their transfer to transitory shelters will go beyond the Dec. 15 deadline.
“It would be quite considerable to be slow in the
construction as long as the housing units are of good quality than to rush
things up just to meet the deadline and...
Right of Way owners OK sale of lots for Camins-Ramos road
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - At least 50 lot owners possessing properties
along the propoed road from Governor Camins to Gov. Ramos passing through
Centro Pastoral have agreed to the sale of these properties to the city
government.
City Engineer Luis Vicente
Despalo said these lot owners have already met with the mayor and other local
officials to settle the right of way problems.
The 50’s lot owners have
already given ...
Now it’s Final: Chavacano must be spelled with a “V”
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The following is the full
text of what agreed among educators after the
three-day Chavacano Orthography Congress was held Nov 19-21. The first two days included presentation by researchers
on Chavacano, mostly results from surveys conducted among selected respondents
in the city. On the third day the newly organized Chavacano Orthography
Council met language and Department of Education...
Beng sees anew delay in Z3R housing project
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - Mayor Beng Climaco has admitted that the 2,086 internally displaced
families occupying the grandstand since the September 2013 siege cannot be
totally transferred to their temporary shelters on or before the Dec. 15 target
date set by the national government.
Climaco said most that the city government can do
is to move out only 380 families from the Zone C portion of the grandstand
(facing WMSU main campus).
This,...
City holds ‘Chavacano’ Orthography Congress
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - Language experts in Zamboanga
have agreed on major rules in the development, preservation and propagation of
Chavacano.
Meeting as the Chavacano Orthography Council
(COC) at the Centro Latino last Friday, the council agreed and decided on
several points that will be institutionalized in Zamboanga in the coming months
and years.
Among their main agreements are :
·
Etymological...
Suspension on Lustre housing project lifted, NHA, workers to comply with requirements
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - Work will resume in houses
subject to questions on their suitability or stability and where work were
ordered suspenfed last week.
The suspension in the construction of houses
under the Z3R project in Lustre, Sta. Catalina has been lifted effective 1pm
Wednesday, November 19, as the National Housing Authority (NHA) has committed
to comply with the recommendations of the City Government.
Mayor Beng Climaco said...
Traders asked to renew their business Permits before Jan. 20, 2015 deadline
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - City Permit and Licensing Division Chief Benjie
Barredo has appealed to businesses to file or renews their business permits
early for the year 2015 to avoid rush hour .
His
office has started to receive license papers for new or renewal purposes last
November 03, 2014.
The
deadline for the renewal of business permit falls on every 20th
of January of each year.
Based
on records, total business...
US official notes slow rehabilitation of ‘ground zero’ in Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - American Ambassador to the
Philippines Philip Goldberg has noted what could be said is the slow
rehabilitation of victims of the September War in Zambaonga between rebels of
the Moro National LIebration Front (MNLF) and government forces deployed in the
city last year.
Ambassador Goldberg said that there are still a
lot of things that can be done for the victims of the conflict.
Thousands of victims forced out...
Mayor seeks installation of CCTVs for trading establishments in Zamboanga
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - City Mayor Maria Isabel
Climaco Salazar has recommended the installation of Close Circuit Television
(CCTV) by businessmen in their premises to help combat crimes and identify
criminals in the vicinity.
She said that businessmen themselves should
shoulder the expenses for their CCTVs because the city government cannot provide
them the equipment.
The City government has so far installed over P20 million CCTVS...
USAID highlights Zamboanga potential as economic engine
ZAMBOANGA CITY
(ZNS) - The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID)-Invest is organizing a day-long Needs
Assessment Workshop highlighting on the city’s potential as an economic engine
in Mindanao and the Philippines.
The activity will be participated by players and
stakeholders in the business and investment sectors. It is intended to
“identify crucial needs and development challenges of the city vis-à-vis
existing...
City gov’t to relocate Pasonanca fire victims
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The
city government’s Housing and Land Management Division (HLMD) headed by Rodrigo
Pagotaisidro has no other recourse but to relocate the 84 families whose houses
were reduced to ashes by fire last Sept. 27 in Barangay Pasonanca, this city.
This developed after the landowner, Regina
Centeno, refused either to sell the property to the city government or to allow
the families to return because she will use the property.
The...
Cong’l oversight committee disaster meets with CDRRM
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The Congressional Oversight
Committee on Disaster headed by Muntinlupa Congressman Rodolfo Biazon met with
Mayor Beng Climaco and the members of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council yesterday morning to make an assessment of how the
government responds to both man-made and natural disasters.
Focus of the discussion was the Zamboanga siege
and the status of the Zamboanga City Roadmap to Recovery...
City gov’t sets aside P1.5 M to decorate city for Christmas Day
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The city government will
spend :1.5 million to decorate city hall, streets in time for the celebration
of Chrsitmas next month.
The General Services Office will be the agency
tasked to decorate the city’s urban areas.
GSO Engineer Rene dela Cruz said the amount will
be used primarily to buy decorative lights and other materials to decorate the
city.
Workers in his office are hurrying in the
preparation of materials...
NHA blacklists supplier of substandard hollow blocks
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The National Housing
Authority (NHA) has blacklisted the suppler of what were called substandard
hollow blocks for house being contstructed at Mariki and Lustre at Sta. Cataina
barangays.
NHA dstrict Manager Engr. Al Indanan said
contractors for the housing projects in these two barangays were already
advised to stop purchasing hollowbocks from the supplier said to be from Ayala
Barangay.
The hollow blocks supplied...
NDRRM looks into status of Rio-Hondo, Mariki areas
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The National Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management or NDRRM oversight committee in the House of
Representatives will try to find a solution to the status of the land in what
is called ground zero at Rio Hondo and its nearby barangays.
NDRRM Chairman Congressman Rodolfo Biazon said
the government must reconcile the ownership of the lands in these barangays.
There exists several Prudential Decrees and
Executive...
City council gives SRPI full 3-6 months to construct 100mw coal-powered plant
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The city council has given
the San Ramon Power Incorporated (SRPI) from 3 to six months within which to
start construction of their 100MW coal-fired power plant at the Zamboanga
Ecozone.
This “ultimatum” was issued Tuesday following a
dialogue held at the city council with of the SRPI, the Zamboanga City Electric
Cooperative or Zamcelco.
Alter the dialogue, the councilors decided to
refer the matter to the Committee...
Work on 100MW coal-powered plant starts only after Zamcelco starts “enhancement”
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The San Ramon Power Incorporated (SRPI) will
start work on its P12 Billion peso 100MW coal fired power plant only after the
Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative will start work on its P900 million
enhancement project.
The
SRPI wants to be sure that Zamcelco will be “viable” following its enhancement
project and thus will be able to pay back part of the money invested in the
plant by way of payment of power bills...
SRPI clarifies that it's Zamcelco deal is “Non-exclusive” but…
ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) - The Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative or
Zamcelco is free to enter into any other or another contract with any other
power suppliers in the country, according to an official of the
San Ramon Power Incorporated “SRPI”.
This
clarification was made by SRPI following reports that the Zamcelco cannot enter
into any other power supply, like solar power, because its contract with SRPI.
This
issue...