Shaken by the deadly Tacloban City school shooting, House Deputy Speaker Quezon 2nd district Rep. David “Jayjay” Suarez called for the swift passage of the proposed Digital Safety of Minors Act. Embodied in House Bill (HB) No. 9825, the measure seeks to seeks to establish robust protections in...
Barbaric and fundamentally wrong. That 's how House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio described Senator Robinhood "Robin" Padilla 's proposal to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 10 years old. This, even as public emotions remained...
Senator Erwin Tulfo on Tuesday, June 23, called for stronger enforcement of the country 's anti-bullying laws following the fatal shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, which authorities said was allegedly triggered by bullying. In a statement, Tulfo said the reported...
Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan said that the suspects in the fatal school shooting in Tacloban cannot simply be released even if they are minors. Three students were killed, and seven others were wounded in a shooting incident at San Jose National High School here at around 9 a.m. Monday, June...
House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio has rejected the notion that the deadly Tacloban City school shooting displayed "isolated criminal behavior". Instead, the veteran lawmaker claimed that the tragic incident reflected a deeper set of longstanding and...
Senator Robinhood Padilla renewed his call for the tackling of his proposed measure seeking to amend the country’s juvenile justice law, following a fatal school shooting in Tacloban that left three students dead and seven others wounded. In a Facebook post, Padilla asked whether there is still...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has expressed support for a proposal to raise the current biodiesel blend level from three percent to five percent to help ease the impact of higher fuel prices on motorists. Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel said he is endorsing the policy resolution of...
The proposed Anti-Political Dynasty Act, which was recently passed in the House of Representatives, has been presented as a long-overdue response to the constitutional mandate against political dynasties. Yet the concerns raised by several respected business and civil society organizations suggest...
The Sandiganbayan Second Division has ordered a 90-day preventive suspension of Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Ejercito Estrada over a graft case pending before the anti-graft court in relation to the alleged multi-million flood control kickback scheme. In a statement issued on Tuesday, June 16, the...
The Philippines has sought World Bank backing for a $1-billion program aimed at tackling the country ’ s plastic waste problem, starting with Metro Manila. In a June 10 document, the World Bank said that the proposed Clean Philippines Multiphase Programmatic Approach (MPA) is designed to improve...
The House of Representatives is playing catch-up with the Senate when it comes to the proposed Citizen Access and Disclosure of Expenditures for National Accountability (CADENA) Act, a budget transparency measure. But Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Migz Villafuerte, whose committee is handling the...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has flagged corruption as a major risk to Philippine infrastructure delivery, warning that the multibillion-peso flood-control corruption scandal show that current accountability safeguards remain insufficient to prevent the misuse of...
