The Philippine National Police (PNP) expressed support for a proposed measure in the Senate that seeks to impose stiffer penalties against individuals responsible for making and disseminating hoax bomb threats. The proposed legislative action, introduced by Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada under...
No one should be overly sensitive and be easily offended over a joke made by comedian and host Vice Ganda about riding a jet ski to the West Philippine Sea and to the Hague, Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said. Castro defended Vice Ganda, saying it was only a...
BANAYOYO, Ilocos Sur – A 21-year-old construction worker drowned while retrieving his slippers thrown by his co-worker into a river as a practical joke at the height of tropical storm “Crising” here on Saturday, July 19. Police Capt. Medward G. Galay, Banayoyo chief of police, identified the...
CEBU CITY – Operations at the Bohol-Panglao International Airport were disrupted due to a bomb joke made inside an aircraft that was about to land past 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 22. A BOMB joke marred operations at the Bohol-Panglao International Airport on Saturday, March 22. (CAAP FB) A...
As part of the administration's firmer stand against fake news, A Malacañang official is wondering if former president Rodrigo Duterte's latest allegation against President Marcos is just one of his jokes as seldom claimed by his supporters. Communications Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer...
Bukidnon 2nd district Rep. Jonathan Keith Flores (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook, PPAB) Bukidnon 2nd district Rep. Jonathan Keith Flores says Vice President Sara Duterte's recent death threat against President Marcos ought to be...
The scene at Tacloban Airport after the bomb joke. (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--A Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight that was supposed to carry dozens of House of Representatives members to Manila on Friday night,...
Police and Coast Guard personnel arrest a woman over a bomb joke at the Passenger Terminal Building of Port of Puerto Galera on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (photo: PPA) She may have planned and waited for this long Holy Week break for her much-deserved vacation —until one bad...
Police arrested a 63-year-old Swiss man for allegedly cracking a bomb joke at the Siargao Domestic Airport on Tuesday, March 5. The suspect, Pet, who was about to leave the island after a vacation, uttered a bomb joke twice while at the airport in Barangay Sayak, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte. He...
At least 11 flights were affected by what airport authorities described as a bomb joke at the Bicol International Airport(BIA) in Albay on Monday morning, Oct. 2. Eric Apolonio, spokesperson of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), said a bomb joke was made by one of the...
President Marcos and Milken Institute fellow Steven Ciobo were able to make light of a setback in the former's schedule as he arrived late for a commitment at the think tank's 10th Asian Summit in Singapore on Wednesday, Sept. 13. President Marcos and former Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism,...
A flight from Davao City to Manila was delayed for almost three hours on Sunday, Jan. 29, over a bomb joke made by one of the passengers. The passenger, identified as 59-year old Annabelle C. Macose, was escorted out of the Cebu Pacific Flight 5J97 and was later arrested by operatives of the...
