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...
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...
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...
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...
Former House Speaker and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez has moved to render assistance to the families affected by the tragic school shooting in his home city of Tacloban in Leyte province. "I have directed my office to coordinate with local authorities and relevant government agencies to...
Malacañang ordered a thorough investigation into the school shooting incident in Tacloban City on Monday, June 22, which killed three students. In a statement, the Palace said President Marcos wants a deeper investigation into the incident and instructed authorities to ensure the protection and...
The Department of Education (DepEd) has started mobilizing assistance to the families of the 10 victims in the shooting incident inside the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City on Monday morning, June 22. Police said three of the victims died while seven others were injured. Most of the...
CEBU CITY – Classes were suspended in a school in Talibon, Bohol when several students were allegedly possessed by spirits. But Talibon Mayor Janette Garcia said that what happened at the San Jose National High School (SJNHS) was a case of mass hysteria. On Friday morning, September 15,...
