SIMUNUL, Tawi-Tawi (MindaNews / 19 January) – Veteran radio anchor Babylyn Kano has signed off. She succumbed to cardiac arrest at around 2:20 a.m. at the Intensive Care Unit of the Zamboanga General Hospital in Zamboanga City.
The 63-year old Kano, station manager of 99.1 Sunlight FM Radyo Suwara Tawi-Tawi, had been suffering from diabetes and had been undergoing dialysis s ince September in the same hospital.
Her remains were flown to Bongao Sunday morning and from there, by boat to her final resting place. In accordance with Islamic rites, she was buried before sundown in her hometown here.
Before joining Sunlight FM Radyo in May 2023, Kano served was among the pioneers in station DXGD when it opened in 1988, serving as reporter and later radio anchor and station manager.
Kano was among a small group of Mindanawon journalists invited by The Asia Foundation to attend a national media conference – MediaNation — in the early 2000s, the first Burqa-wearing Moro to have graced the event.
She is survived by her children Aivan Sharri Aylani, a police officer; Aivan Zazam Kano, a nurse and doctor; and Rukayya Omar, who is in third year college. (Gamar Aukasa / MindaNews)
