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...
There are indications that the suspects in the deadly gun attack at a school in Tacloban City were "heavily influenced" by online content, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said. In a Palace press briefing on Tuesday, June 23, PNP spokesperson Colonel Allen Rae Co said that authorities are...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, June 23 announced that the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality will launch its initial inquiry into the fatal shooting at the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, Leyte on July 1, 2026. Hontiveros said the Senate...
TACLOBAN CITY — While families of the slain and wounded students in the school shooting here cry for justice, the National Police Commission will conduct its own motu proprio investigation to determine the administrative liability of a female police officer linked to the fatal shooting...
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...
The two minors planned the gun attack in Tacloban City school more than a month before the opening of the classes, a police official revealed amid the ongoing investigation to determine the motive behind the rare school shooting in the country. And what surprised the police investigators was that...
House Speaker Isabela 6th district Rep. Faustino "Bojie" Dy III has supported calls from the chamber to investigate the tragic Tacloban City school shooting that took the lives of three minors. “The House supports efforts to establish the facts, ensure accountability under the law, and determine...
How did the San Jose National High School shooters--aged 14 and 15--get a hold of firearms in the first place? That 's the crucial question on the mind of former House quad-committee (quad-comm) overall chairman, Robert Ace Barbers when it comes to the deadly June 22 school shooting that...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) urged parents and guardians to be active in monitoring the social media and gadget use of their children following the involvement of two minors, aged 14 and 15, in the gun attack on a Tacloban City high school. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima said the tragic Tacloban City school shooting--where at least three minors died--must not be used to spread "false narratives". This, as De Lima joined on Monday, June 22 the growing list of lawmakers who have condemned the incident that rocked...
Police investigators have so far recovered at least 40 spent bullet casings at the gun attack site inside the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City that indicates the intention of the two students, aged 14 and 15, to go on a shooting rampage. Col. Allen Rae Co, spokesperson of the...
Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan said that the suspects in the fatal school shooting in Tacloban cannot simply be released even if they are minors. Three students were killed, and seven others were wounded in a shooting incident at San Jose National High School here at around 9 a.m. Monday, June...
