Champion again!

Mayor Celso Lobregat yesterday called on the public to fully support the International Film Festival set to be staged in Zamboanga City February 25-27 as a highlight to the 75th Dia de la Ciudad de Zamboanga celebration.

After more than 400 shows and performances in various cities in the Philippines and in Italy, the vastly anticipated one-of-a-kind medical-lecture dubbed “How to Remain Young at Heart: The Musical” will find its way to Zamboangueño audiences on March 9, 2012 at Centro Pastoral.

Health authorities are seeking confirmation from duly accredited laboratories in Manila and abroad concerning a case of suspected acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or polio.

BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur — The local government unit of Bayog hosted the Zamboanga del Sur 2nd Mobile Conference 2B for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) implementers held at the Glupa Gulian Agro-Tourism Park, Sitio Quibranza, barangay Kahayagan, this municipality on Febraury 20, 2012.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-IX recently visited different schhols in Zamboanga Del Sur as part of its information campaign for the academe to be aware and concerned about environmental protection and natural resources conservation.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — The much-awaited 2012 Zamboanga International Film festival is set to take center stage from February 25-27.

The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) announced that it started paying deposit insurance claims of depositors of the closed Rural Bank of Calubian (Leyte), Inc. on February 15, 2012. The claims settlement operations (CSO) are being held at the bank’s premises located in Sta. Filomena St., Brgy. Espinosa, Calubian, Leyte and will continue until February 28, 2012..

DAVAO CITY — The provincial government of Davao del Norte is pooling its resources for the development of 5,000 hectares of oil palm plantation.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Five more suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels operating in the mountains of Sarangani province have surrendered in the last several days to government troops in the area.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Nicanor Bartolome will lead on Thursday the distribution of 10 personal computers (PCs) to various police stations here as part of the ongoing rollout of its flagship computerized crime incident reporting system or the e-blotter.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The provincial government of South Cotabato has created a special body that will regularly look into the compliance of small-scale mining operations and other industries in the province to local and national environmental laws and regulations.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) is set to deploy some 80 nurses to several remote and poor communities in South Cotabato province this year as part of the third phase of the continuing Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Service or RNheals-3 project.

MANILA — Malacanang welcomed the recent recognition of the Philippines after it became one of the creditor nations in the 180-nation International Monetary Fund (IMF).

MANILA — Senate minority leader Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of American professor Robert Klitgaard as anti-corruption consultant of the Aquino administration and expressed optimism that institutional reforms will soon be in place.