President Marcos has extended his condolences to the families of the victims and the Ateneo de Zamboanga University community following the fatal shooting at the school’s Junior High School campus in Zamboanga City early this week. Cabinet Secretary Benhur Abalos personally conveyed the...
Police officials on Thursday, August 20 told Senate probers that the Ateneo de Zamboanga student who opened fire and shot dead a schoolmate before taking his own life indeed had the motive to kill. During the Senate Committee on Women and Children’s hearing on the Zamboanga school shooting...
Please talk to your children, talk to your child. Senator Erwin Tulfo on Thursday, August 20 made the call to parents as he lamented the death of two more students in a shooting case at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, while saying he believes that the incident “should be a lesson for...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has started providing psychological first aid (PFA) to students affected by the shooting incident at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU). Eight students aged 11 to 14 received PFA from DSWD mental health professionals on Aug. 19, a day...
The deadly shooting at Ateneo de Zamboanga University on Aug. 18 should not be treated as just another case of campus-security failure. It should serve as a warning that the government must confront school violence on two fronts: keeping weapons and threats out of campuses, and teaching young...
For private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan, impeachment trial respondent Vice President Sara Duterte is "contributing to the problem" of violence among Filipino youth, no thanks to the latter 's signature violent rhetoric. Kapunan had this to say Wednesday, Aug. 19 following the deadly shooting at...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, August 19 filed a resolution seeking further investigation into the disturbing pattern of serious violent activities perpetrated by children. In filing Senate Resolution No. 610, Hontiveros sought an inquiry, in aid of legislation, into the shooting incident...
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...
