Willy M. Balasa

THE Bureau of Immigration urged aspiring overseas Filipino workers to avoid human traffickers and illegal recruiters who would promise them employment abroad.

ALERT Bureau of Customs (BoC) personnel at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) intercepted crystallized substance believed to be shabu hidden in two abandoned checked-in luggage weighing 5.16 kilos with an estimated street value of P35.1 million.

OFFICERS of the Bureau of Immigration at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport recently barred 12 undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who tried to leave the country in the guise of being tourists.

Bureau of Customs District Collector Mimel Talusan ordered the relief of Customs Examiner Carmelito Mantal from his airport post after an arriving Korean tourist filed a complaint of extortion against him involving Y3 million.

ALERT agents of the Bureau of Immigration intercepted at Ninoy Aquino International Airport two more Korean fugitives who were wanted in their country for fraud.

ALERT Bureau of Customs officers manning the warehouse of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) intercepted some P15 million worth of smuggled slightly used cellular phones without clearance from the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC).

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.