They say it takes a village to raise a child, and Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sonny Angara wants a comprehensive and holistic approach in coming up with a strong support system for all learners following another case of gun attack that left two students dead. Angara explained that...
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...
Police forensics teams are now focusing on digital evidence to establish how the shooting incident at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University was broadcast online and what drove the minor shooter to carry it out. Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, J., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the...
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...
Stressing that regulation should be imposed on the platforms themselves, Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, August 19, said she would support legislation prohibiting minors from registering on social media platforms. Duterte said the government should require social media providers to...
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...
