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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 cases of cigarettes seized in separate anti-smuggling operations and Customs checkpoints in the Zamboanga Peninsula and Basulta (Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi) from December 2021 to March 2022. The activity was also witnessed by representatives from the local government units, heads of partner law enforcement agencies, representatives from the Commission on Audit, the Department of Health, and other concerned stakeholders. The BOC official also echoed the instruction of Commissioner Rey Leonardo Gue ....
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… ....
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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 areas of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, which are part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar said Monday the PHP100-million worth of AstraZenecaCovid-19 vaccines bought by the city government have started to arrive in batches from Manila. A total of PHP200 million have been allocated for the purchase of vaccines whilethe city isstill receivingits allocation fromthe national government. "We want to share part of these vaccines but subject to ....
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 cigarettes worth PHP300 million. The cigarettes were stacked, drenched by firetrucks, and crushed with the use of heavy equipment in front of the BOC-rented warehouse in Barangay Baliwasan. After crushing, the cigarettes were disposed at the sanitary landfill. "These cigarettes were seized in separate anti-smuggling operations in Zamboanga Peninsula and BaSulTa (Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi) from May to November this year," BOC-Zamboanga District Collector Segundo Sigmundfreud Barte Jr. s ....