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(Photo courtesy of BOC-Port of Zamboanga) MANILA-The Bureau of Customs (BOC)-Port of Zamboanga has destroyed approximately 3,110 master cases and 1,372 reams of imported smuggled cigarettes with an estimated value of PHP110 million. According to Segundo Sigmundfreud Barte Jr., District Collector of the Zamboanga port, the condemnation of the illegal items was conducted in a customs-rented warehouse in Baliwasan, Zamboanga City on May 5, 2022. Among the items destroyed were more than 3,110 master...

IF THERE’S ONE bright spot to observe during the fasting month of Ramadan among the mostly Muslim residents of the country’s southern backdoor, it would be the series of construction of new medical facilities and donation of medical equipment that were once nonexistent and inaccessible to the island residents of…

VAX SHARING. The local government of Zamboanga plans to donate part of the city-purchased AstraZeneca vaccines to its neighboring provinces. Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar said Monday (Feb. 28, 2022) that the city government has purchased PHP100 million worth ofjabs to fight Covid-19.(Photo courtesy of Zamboanga-CIO) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The local government is eyeing to share part of the city-purchased AstraZeneca vaccines with its neighboring province of Zamboanga Sibugay, and the island are...

CIGARETTES DESTRUCTION. Segundo Sigmundfreud Barte Jr., Bureau of Customs-Zamboanga district collector (left), and Councilor Josephine Pareja (right) tear apart smuggled cigarettes, as part of the destruction Wednesday (Dec. 15, 2021). It is part of PHP300 million worth of confiscated cigarettes in Zamboanga City. (Photo by: Teofilo P. Garcia, Jr.) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) here, together with partner agencies, on Wednesday destroyed more than 8,000 master cases of smuggled ci...