Zambo bags 3 awards in Phil cities competitiveness project

Written by Claudine Mamales-Uniana | 21 July 2010

Zamboanga City captured 3 awards in the 2009 Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project (PCCRP), a flagship research undertaking of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) that measures competitiveness of cities in the country.

Mayor Celso Lobregat personally accepted the citations—Special Award for Best Documentation, Special Award for Best in Disaster Preparedness and Entrepreneurs’ Award for Most Honest and Transparent in its Dealings—during a program held at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City Monday, July 19.

Mayor Celso Lobregat is presented with one of the three awards that the city government of Zamboanga bagged during the 2009 Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project held in Manila July 19. Looking on are mayors of other cities that are also recipients of citations in the Asian Institute of Management (AIM)-initiated project. JOEY BAUTISTA

On the Mampang-Arena Blanco-Talon-talon issue No Christian-Muslim conflict in Zambo, religious leaders agree

Written by Claudine Mamales-Uniana | 21 July 2010

Religious leaders coming from different denominations—Islam, Catholics and Evangelists yesterday sought to correct malicious insinuations that the spate of shooting incidents in the Mampang-Arena Blanco and Talon-talon area is a result of a Muslim-Christian conflict.

The religious leaders including Mayor Celso Lobregat and top military and police officials met on a multi-stakeholders’ meeting held at the behest of the National Ulama Council of the Philippines (NUCP)-ZAMBASULTA chapter at a hotel in Pilar Street to discuss measures on how to put an end to the series of violent incidents in the area.

Mayor Celso Lobregat addresses religious leaders during a multi-stakeholders' meeting initiated by the National Ulama Conference of the Philippines-Zambasulta Chapter, July 15 to discuss about spate of shooting incidents in the Mampang-Arena Blanco and Talon-talon area. JOEY BAUTISTA

Very high dengue alert level declared

Written by Claudine Mamales-Uniana | 21 July 2010

Due to soaring cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Zamboanga, the City Health Office has hoisted the alarm level to ‘very high alert level’ and has earnestly reminded all residents to take the necessary precautionary measures to help eliminate the breeding of the killer mosquitoes.

Citing statistics, City Health Officer Rodel Agbulos said the number of dengue fever cases has doubled the last 2 months and that fatalities for the first six months of the year reached 9. In 2009, 8 fatalities were reported the whole year.

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Mayor, US envoy
vow to work closely for ZC

Meeting for the first time yesterday, Mayor Celso Lobregat and newly-installed American Ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas Jr. vowed to continue the good relationship between the governments of the USA and Zamboanga City to guarantee more projects for the benefit of the residents.

“I really hope to come to Zamboanga as often as she (former Ambassador Kristie Kenney) did because of our USAID projects all throughout the city and the region, we want to highlight them, amplify them and again highlight the contributions of the American government to improving the lives of our people here”, Ambassador Thomas in an interview told reporters at the Western Mindanao Command headquarters shortly before noon yesterday.

The envoy, who succeeded Ambassador Kenney, an adopted daughter of Zamboanga, was in the city for the first time yesterday to grace the change of command ceremony of the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSTOFP).

In his lengthy conversation with Mayor Lobregat after the ceremony, the ambassador said, he has learned a numerous things about Zamboanga and its people and most importantly about the people’s aspirations for improved law and order so they can educate their children and ensure that both the rich and the poor will get equal quality of education thereby ensuring the youths a brighter future.

Zambo bags 3 awards in Phil cities competitiveness project

On the Mampang-Arena Blanco-Talon-talon issue No Christian-Muslim conflict in Zambo, religious leaders agree

Very high dengue alert level declared

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