Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, August 19 renewed his call for the passage of the measure that would ban children aged 16 and below from using social media. Gatchalian made the call in the wake of another fatal school shooting incident in Zamboanga City where two minors died,...
Former senator Richard Gordon on Wednesday, Aug. 18, called for tighter firearm security and greater regulation of children 's exposure to violent content online following a shooting inside a school in Zamboanga City that left two people dead, including the Grade 8 student identified as the...
House Assistant Majority Leader Zamboanga City 1st district Rep. Katrina Chua-Tai is seeking a congressional probe on the circumstances regarding the deadly Ateneo de Zamboanga University shooting, which has rocked her home city as well as the entire nation. Chua-Tai filed House Resolution (HR) No....
Senators on Wednesday, August 19 called for tighter safeguards on firearms access following the shooting incident at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University on Tuesday. Senator Loren Legarda said these successive incidents of school violence—in Cavite, Tacloban, Bacolod and now Zamboanga—demand a...
Schools must remain safe spaces where students can learn without any fear, Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said on Wednesday, August 19. Cayetano made the remark following the fatal shooting at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University Junior High School campus in Barangay Tumaga that claimed...
House Speaker Isabela 6th district Rep. Faustino "Bojie" Dy III gave a somber yet resolute take on the deadly shooting at Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City on Monday, Aug. 18. Dy viewed the tragic incident not just as a lawmaker, but also as a family man. "Nakikiramay po tayo nang...
Ranking congressmen have begun to espouse various actions in response to the shocking, livestreamed shooting at Ateneo de Zamboanga University on Tuesday morning, Aug. 18 that left two students dead. Assistant Majority Leader Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong said in a press...
Several senators condemned the shooting at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University Junior High School campus in Barangay Tumaga, Zamboanga City, on Tuesday, August 18, that left two students dead, including the teenage gunman. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian called for a thorough investigation into the...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Tuesday, Aug. 18, offered psychosocial support to individuals affected by a shooting incident at a school in Zamboanga City that left two students dead. In a statement, DSWD expressed its condolences to the families of those who died and to...
Members of the House of Representatives have expressed great concern over the deadly school shooting in Zambonga City on Tuesday morning, Aug. 18, especially since it continues the spate of violence in the country 's learning institutions. Akbayan Party-list Rep. Dadah Kiram Ismula says the...
The latest school gun attack, at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (AdZU) which claimed the lives of two students, only strengthens the calls for c hanges in the firearms law, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Juanito Victor “Jonvic’’ Remulla said. Remulla...
A junior high school student of the Ateneo de Zamboanga allegedly engaged in a gun attack inside the campus on Tuesday, Aug. 18, or almost two months after the mass shooting inside a Tacloban City school. Zamboanga City Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso said two students died during the incident— a high...
