The Bureau of Customs - Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA), in coordination with the National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) has successfully processed the release of the latest batch of CoronaVac brand vaccines to arrive in the country. (Photo from BOC) Arriving aboard Cebu Pacific flight no.5J671 at 7:30...
Bureau of Customs (BOC) agents from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) helped in the arrest of two claimants of three packages that turned out to contain P15.7 million worth of the "party drug" known as Ecstasy. (Photo from BOC) The claimants, identified as Rowena Canapit and Michael De...
Some P16 million worth of smuggled meat ended up in the hands of Bureau of Customs (BOC) operatives over the weekend, the agency said in a statement Sunday, May 9. Yielding the contraband during an operation on Friday, May 7 was a storage facility located in Navotas City. Seized were frozen peking...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is now transitioning into an "enhanced" customer assistance system through the help of a third-party service provider. Enhanced customer service -- The Bureau of Customs (BOC) transitions into a new and 'enhanced' customer assistance system through the help of a...
The Bureau of Customs-Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) has intercepted Ivermectin and other undeclared regulated drugs from a shipment imported by Finstad Inc. from New Delhi, India. (Photo from BOC-NAIA) The shipment was declared to contain "food supplements, multivitamins and multi-mineral capsules"....
The Bureau of Customs (BOC)-Port of NAIA has cleared the first batch of Sputnik V coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that arrived in the country from Russia over the weekend. (Photo by Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) The cargo, which contains 15,000 doses, was flown in to the Philippines...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) surpassed its revenue collection goal for April 2021 by over P2 billion on the strength of its actual collection of P51.277 billion, the agency said Monday, May 3. Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero (Photo courtesy of the BOC) The bureau had set a...
Ivan Guerrero’s childhood favorites have been turned into a LEGO playset. His ‘dream come true’ started in 2017 when he submitted his Sesame Street set design to LEGO Ideas, the toymaker’s community-based website, which accepts suggestions and gives designers a chance to convert them into...
The Bureau of Customs further stepped up its campaign against rice smuggling even amid the coronavirus pandemic by conducting raids on warehouses suspected of storing illegally imported stocks of the grain in response to reports by concerned citizens. Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo...
ARGEE GUERRERO (Instagram) Argee Guerrero, the lead singer of OPM band I Belong to the Zoo, has tested for COVID-19. He made the revelation about his health status on Aug. 8 via Instagram Stories. According to him, he contracted a mild case of COVID-19. Argee is currrenly in quarantine and...
Now is the right opportunity for Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling After quarantine for a few months now, a lot of people have realized the importance of a cleaner environment and for a more sustainable planet. There is also the realization that...
