Bureau of Customs Archives

Senator’s expose on sugar fiasco signals media to do own probe

THE SUGAR crisis in this country has left a bitter taste for most Filipinos, with only one public official so far expressing alarm over the numerous points sugar imports... Read more

Quick Turnaround: Justice Secretary’s son cleared in speedy trial

THE DRUG case filed against Juanito Jose Remulla III, son of the Secretary of Justice (SOJ) Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla, had been hounded by controversy since news of it... Read more

Rappler and Inquirer.net dig up the onion problem

CHEERS TO Inquirer.net and Rappler for their looking into reasons behind the high price of onions. The reports focused on what farmer groups have to say as they are... Read more

Sidebar | The Magnetic Lifters: Recalling Critical Details

Read article: The Drugs That Got Away: Questions Linger on Multibillion-Peso Drug Shipment Photo from the PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. THE USE of magnetic lifters to smuggle narcotics... Read more

The Drugs That Got Away: Questions Linger on Multibillion-Peso Drug Shipment

Photo from PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. THE MONTHS-LONG blame game between the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) over the loss of PHP... Read more

Another Drug Shipment Slips Through: Media Miss What It Says About The “Drug War”

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director General Aaron Aquino inspects the seized magnetic lifters in Cavite. | Photo from PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. ON AUGUST 10, operatives from the Philippine... Read more

A Game of Musical Chairs: Drug War Back to PDEA

FROM PNP to PDEA – once more. President Rodrigo Duterte passed the responsibility for all anti-illegal drug operations to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) with a memorandum... Read more

Customs Under Fire: Shabu from China on the “green lane”

Seized shabu amounting to P6.4 billion | Photo from the Bureau of Customs PH Official Facebook Page HEARINGS IN the House of Representatives and the Senate probed the smuggling of... Read more

PJR Reports September – October 2011

Editor’s Note: FOCUS THE POSSIBILITY that some of the journalists who have been killed in this country since 1986 might not have been ethical, or even corrupt, isn’t exactly... Read more

Custom-Made “Journalists”

By Philip Tubeza || Right after being appointed to his post, newly designated Customs commissioner Rozzano Rufino Biazon raised a lot of eyebrows when he announced that he would... Read more