No group in the Philippines has so far expressed interest in heeding the call of Hamas to launch a jihad, a top official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Thursday, Oct 19. But AFP chief of staff Gen. Romeo Brawner, Jr. said they are still on monitoring mode with the assistance...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (PPAB) The House of Representatives is ready and willing to provide additional security personnel for ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro. Thus, said House Secretary General Reginald Velasco in an interview Monday, Oct. 16 even...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, former president Rodrigo Duterte (PPAB, Malacañang photo) Makabayan bloc member ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro thanked on Monday, Oct. 16 the House leadership for siding with her amid the "death...
A personnel of the Philippine National Police-Explosive Ordnance Disposal K9 (PNP EOD K9) Group inspects the vicinity of Bicol International Airport. (Courtesy of CAAP) The Department of Transportation (DOTr) allayed public fears over a bomb threat that gripped commercial airports in the country on...
BUTUAN CITY – A bomb threat abruptly suspended work at the Agusan del Norte provincial capitol here on Tuesday, October 3. Agusan del Norte Community Affairs Officer (CAO) Edgar M. Palarca Jr. said work was suspended at 10 a.m. “Our police authorities have taken swift action to ensure the...
Twelve flights were affected by a bomb threat at the Bicol International Airport (BIA) on Monday, October 2, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) reported. Cebu Pacific (CEB) flight 5J 326, with 130 passengers, failed to take off at 10:45 a.m. after it requested security...
Students and personnel of Far Eastern University (FEU) evacuated to open grounds following a bomb threat at the FEU Arts building in Sampaloc, Manila, on Wednesday, Sept. 27. Far Eastern University (FEU) students and personnel evacuate to the open grounds following a bomb threat on September 27,...
The Department of Transportation activated an inter-agency task force (IATF) composed of representatives from the Office for the Transportation Security (OTS), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Cybercrime Investigation Coordinating Center, Philippine National Police...
BACOLOD CITY – A bomb threat forced passengers to disembark from a Cebu Pacific flight bound for Manila from this city at the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday night, July 2. Police Major Deejay Domingo, chief of the Bacolod-Silay Airport Police Station, said that...
DAVAO CITY – Classes were disrupted at the Santa Ana Elementary School in Poblacion District here after receiving a bomb threat on Thursday morning, June 22, authorities said. Police Capt. Hazel Tuazon, spokesperson for the Davao City Police Office, said in a text message that the Santa Ana...
MULANAY, Quezon – A bomb threat posted on social media of four schools in this town forced the municipal government to suspend the classes on Monday, May 22. Authorities, however, found the bomb threat to be negative after searching the areas where the four schools were located. The four schools...
Police conducts check on the reported bomb threat at PICC/Photo from Pasay City police The Pasay City police found that the reported bomb threat at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City on Friday afternoon, May 12 was a hoax. According to the report of the Pasay City...
