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MORE than 600 bills approved by the House of Representatives are still pending in the Senate as Speaker Martin Romualdez laid out the lower House’s accomplishment during his speech before …
House of Representatives beyond expectation Read More IF it were not for the vigilance of personnel from the Bureau of Customs-NAIA and other related agencies, illegal drugs would have flooded the Philippines following the uncovered attempts to …
Successive drug seizures alarming, put BOC-NAIA’s vigilance to test Read More FIRST, there were only murmurs. Then, there were photos already circulating. Then, just recently, I read it in another column. The controversial issue is finally out in the open. An …
BI official links to ‘escort’ activities Read More MEDIA members who have been covering the airport beat for a good number of years were all in agreement that what happened during the Customs ETravel launching last November 21 …
BOC e-travel organizers are the worst, hands down Read More SUSPENDED Suspended Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Task Force Special Operations Unit chief Bong Nebrija was served a hard lesson owing to his obvious penchant for publicity. If and when …
Nebrija’s karma Read More As a reporter who has covered the airports and immigration bureau for a long time, I have lost count of the number of times I have written about foreigners who, …
Foreigners with genuine PH passports are a cause for major concern Read More WHEN top airport officials led by Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista and Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) general manager Bryan Co made the rounds of the NAIA Terminals in connection with …
OTS performance under new chief Briones laudable Read More A male passenger of AirAsia bound for Tacloban was brought to the nearest police station on Wednesday after saying “sarap pasabugin ng eroplano n’yo.” Based on records, the passenger was …
AirAsia blacklists passenger for ‘bomb joke’ Read More
AT least 1.2 million passengers are expected to fly in and out of the country this coming ‘Undas’ season. In line with this, the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) under …
NAIA terminals, airlines ready for Undas Read More THE projected flight estimates at the premier Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminals are poised to surpass the pre-pandemic levels of 2019 as the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) remains …
NAIA to surpass 2019 pre-pandemic volume levels with 45M passengers Read More AFTER demanding for the resignation of erstwhile Office for Transportation Security (OTS) chief Ma. O Aplasca with a threat that he would block the budget of the OTS if his …
Speaker Romualdez lauded for his ‘balls’ Read More IN the wake of the shameful incident where a female screening personnel of the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) was caught on camera swallowing dollar bills taken from a departing …
OTS chief on ‘swallowing incident’: Hindi pa ito ang huli, nandyan pa yung core Read More MEMBERS of Airport Press Club (APC) are up in arms over the outright removal of its member Froilan Morallos from the Viber group of the APC and OTS (Office for …
OTS chief, spokesperson hit for singling out press corps member Read More THE late former Vice Mayor Danilo Lacuna, better known as “Danny,” is one very good mayor the city of Manila never had. I was covering the Manila City Hall beat …
Ex-Manila Vice Mayor Danny Lacuna must be smiling in heaven Read More THERE seems to be a brewing powerplay at the Bureau of Immigration (BI) owing to recent developments that suggest so. While BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco was in Thailand as Head …
‘Clash of the Titans’ at the Bureau of Immigration Read More THE Manila City Council (MCC) turned 122 years old recently, and during the same occasion, various awards and recognition were given by MCC Presiding Officer and Vice Mayor Yul Servo-Nieto …
Brand of public service worthy of emulation Read More