Willy M. Balasa

ALERT agents of the Bureau of Immigration at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport recently arrested an illegal recruiter who attempted to facilitate the departure of one of his victims by making it appear the latter was his employee.

THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) barred from entering the country more than 2,300 foreign nationals during the first six months of the year as a result of the agency’s intensified efforts to thwart the entry of aliens posing a threat to public welfare and safety.

CEB flight 5J 381 pilot in-command radioed Manila Control Tower that they were returning to NAIA after a bird hit one of the aircraft’s engines.

SEVENTEEN displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including 11 children arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on board a Philippine Airlines flight from Haiti yesterday.

BUREAU of Immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport barred 13 Filipinos from travelling to Hong Kong for carrying fake boarding passes.

BUREAU of Customs at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has deployed 28 newly-hired Customs police in all terminals.

FORMER Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs Albert del Rosario was barred from entering Hong Kong yesterday morning.

ALERT members of the Bureau of Customs arrested an Indonesian national in possession of some 1.6 kilos of suspected cocaine worth P8.7 million on Wednesday evening at the Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City.

OFFICERS of the Bureau of Immigration at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport arrested on Sunday a Taiwanese impostor who attempted to leave the country by passing himself off as a Filipino.

The Bureau of Animal Quarantine said the first K-9s deployed were bomb-sniffing dogs, followed by drug sniffing dogs and the latest are three meat sniffing canines to prevent in-coming passengers from bringing in animal meat that could cause the spread of the deadly swine fever.

In an initial report received by the office of Bureau of Immigration (BI) chief Jaime Morente at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Morales and her entourage were scheduled to leave Hong Kong at 6:00 pm and expected to arrive about 8:15 pm on board a Philippine Airlines flight at NAIA Terminal 2.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. personally met Anthony Padilla, Romeo Manabat and Roderick Rivera, who arrived on a Philippine Airlines flight from United Arab Emirates escorted by Ambassador Haycelyn Quintana, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2.

A TAIWANESE fugitive who attempted to flee the country by passing himself off as a Filipino using a tampered Philippine passport was arrested by agents of the Bureau of Immigration.

“Cebu Pacific confirms that there was an unauthorized access to a GetGo application server last night. This server has been secured. We can also confirm that credit card information was not stored on that server,” Cebu Pacific said in a statement.

EMPLOYEES of the Bureau of Immigration thanked President Rodrigo Roa Duterte for “recognizing the plight of immigration officers nationwide.”