Basilan

Located on the North-Western part of the island of Basilan, Isabela is also the capital of Basilan province, across the Isabela Channel from the Malamwi Island.

But the Sealions and the Tamaraws will still clinch the top two seeding with superior tiebreak points over the Basilan side.

Delumpines said they have tightened the security watch in the city and Basilan in general in preparation for the observance of Holy Week when Catholics are expected to visit churches and chapels.

MANILA, Philippines — A total of 19 people are still missing from the fire that razed a passenger vessel off Basilan, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said on Monday.

The vessel caught fire around 11 p.m. as it was passing near Baluk-Baluk island of Hadji Muhtamad town of Basilan province, two hours after departing from the port of Zamboanga City, the Coast Guard said.

More than a year after it was launched in Basilan in October last year, around 800 firearms have been turned in to the government under the program, according to the Opapru.

And it was this intelligence acumen that brought Indammog to Basilan and Sulu for many years, according to him.

Isabela City Mayor Djalia Turabin-Hataman announces through a video messages posted on social media that she and her husband, Mujiv, Basilan’s lone representative to Congress and House Deputy Speaker (R) have tested positive for COVID-19.

She added that out of the 97 deportees, only a dozen were residents of Zamboanga, while the rest were from the provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and other regions.

Foreign ISIS militants and a local recruit had killed themselves in suicide attacks in Basilan and Sulu.

Latest recipients of the “Medal ng Papuri” are the policemen assigned to provide in Isabela City, Basilan and Bongao, Tawi-Tawi for the Bangsamoro Organic Law plebiscite on Jan.

Amin Baco is of Bugis descent from Sulawesi, a Malaysian born in Sabah who built his jihadi credentials fighting in Jolo and Basilan in Mindanao.

In Basilan, one of the depressed areas in Mindanao, a kg of rice is reportedly P80.

In Western Basilan, where relative peace is at hand, an idea has begun to take shape – the birth of interlocal cooperation, or now popularly referred to as inter-LGU alliance.

Lanao 1st district, Sulu 1st and 2nd districts, and Basilan district engineering offices received the dump trucks in a ceremonial turnover organized recently by the DPWH-ARMM.

Of the 17 provincial winners, two are Mindanao LGUs: North Cotabato in Region 12 and Basilan in ARMM.

Several foreign fighters had been killed in clashes with soldiers in Basilan in recent years.

The Abu Sayyaf is still holding over a dozen mostly foreigners, including seafarers, kidnapped off Basilan and Tawi-Tawi provinces in the Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines; and had previously launched surprised raids in Sabah.

The Palarong ARMMAA is an annual athletic event of the DepEd ARMM involving student-athletes from the provinces of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.

Much of the operation was a success: the ASG was driven from Basilan and one U.S. hostage was recovered.