Authorities arrested 10 individuals and seized approximately P12 million worth of petroleum products, equipment, and transport assets during an operation against an alleged illegal fuel transfer scheme known as “paihi” in Navotas City on Monday, June 22. According to the Philippine National...
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...
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...
To address the growing power demand in Mindanao, state-run National Power Corp. (Napocor) is set to gradually switch on multiple power units of the Agus-Pulangi hydroelectric plants through the end of this month until August. In a statement on Wednesday, June 24, Napocor said its power assets are...
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 Philippines’ more-than-three-decade-old devolution program remains incomplete, with local government units (LGUs) and national agencies continuing to share responsibilities for many basic services despite the 1991 Local Government Code (LGC), according to state-run policy think tank...
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – Learners of the biggest public secondary school in Antique have been requested to voluntarily submit their bags to frisking as part of security measures to help prevent a repeat of the fatal shooting in Leyte province. Three learners of San Jose National High...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said he is unfazed by sanctions imposed by China as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday, June 23, also dismissed as a “joke” claims that military officers were preparing to file cases against him. Speaking in a...
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...
