Police in Muntinlupa City investigated an online post alleging that individuals were carrying firearms and butterfly knives near a public high school in Alabang. The post, uploaded on June 24, spread across community pages and prompted the Cyber Patroller and Tracker Team to monitor the claim....
Quezon City High School saw long queues at its entrance on Friday, June 26, after stricter gate inspections were introduced to strengthen campus security. The tightened screening is part of broader safety reviews following a shooting in Tacloban City, Leyte, that killed three minors and prompted...
The sense of the House of Representatives is clear--the tragic Tacloban City school shooting must be probed, and the government 's pre- and post-interventions dissected. This, after several House members filed on Thursday, June 25 resolutions seeking a House inquiry on the disturbing incident,...
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...
Teams in the Premier Volleyball League will spend plenty of time on the road as the league heads to several provincial venues when the season fires off next month. Based on a partial schedule released on its website, the league is scheduled to stage matches in Isabela, Batangas, Ilocos Sur, South...
Actress Karla Estrada has issued a strong condemnation of the deadly shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City where four students were killed and several others injured. She described the incident as a painful and urgent wake-up call on the safety of schools. Estrada personally...
Senator Loren Legarda says the involvement of minor-suspects in the tragic Tacloban City school shooting must not "diminish their accountability" for the incident. "This attack demands that we face a hard and disturbing reality. The suspects are themselves minors," Legarda said in a statement. "By...
The allegations that the two Grade 9 suspects in the San Jose National High School shooting incident were victims of bullying must not be ignored. Akbayan Party-list Rep. Chel Diokno has placed a spotlight on this detail as he called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to address the persistent...
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...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) intensified security measures at Batasan Hills National High School following a shooting incident in Tacloban City on Monday, June 22. On Tuesday, June 23, the QCPD strengthened campus security by enforcing stricter entry screening, including tighter bag...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday, June 23, called for stronger school safety measures following the deadly incident at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, saying the tragedy should serve as a wake-up call for the government to improve learner protection and threat detection. “The...
Mayor Ruffy Biazon of Muntinlupa has called for an urgent meeting to assess security measures in local schools following the deadly mass shooting in Tacloban that claimed three lives and left seven others wounded. “It is both shocking and alarming that the country has experienced its first mass...
