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Tacloban shooting: Romualdez visits families of slain, hurt students

TACLOBAN CITY— Leyte 1st District Rep. Martin  Romualdez on Tuesday visited the families of students killed in a shooting at San Jose National High School that left several dead and at least 20 others injured, as authorities filed charges against a 15-year-old suspect. The students were killed following a shooting incident at San Jose National

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Grade 9 Student Stabbed by Fellow Student Outside School Premises in Negros Occidental 

Grade 9 Student Injured in Stabbing Outside School in Negros Occidental, Fellow Student Identified as Suspect  A Grade 9 student was injured after being stabbed outside the campus of Julio Ledesma National High School in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.  On the afternoon of June 23., 2026, the stabbing incident has raised concerns among parents, students, and school officials ... Read more

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15-Year-Old Suspect in Tacloban School Shooting Charged w/ Murder, 14-Year-Old Has No Criminal Liability 

15-Year-Old Suspect in Tacloban School Shooting Faces Murder Charges; 14-Year-Old Under Intervention Program  The 15-year-old suspect in Tacloban school shooting was charged with murder, but the 14-year-old culprit has no criminal liability.  The Philippine National Police (PNP) has filed criminal charges against the 15-year-old suspect involved in the shooting incident at San Jose National High ... Read more

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Baricuatro set to deliver first State of the Region Address today

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu Governor Pamela Baricuatro is set to outline Central Visayas’ development priorities and key challenges when she delivers her first State of the Region Address (SORA) on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. As chairperson of the Regional Development Council in Central Visayas (RDC-7), Baricuatro is expected to report on major discussions the

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SEC revokes Delisha Lending registration for multiple violations

MANILA – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revoked the corporate registration of Delisha Lending Investors and Trading Corp. over multiple violations of lending regulations and SEC rules. The SEC said in a Tuesday news release that an investigation by its Financing and Lending Companies Department showed the company failed to comply with the implementing

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From Duterte’s 1972 shooting story to Tacloban: School violence in PH

Long before he became president, Rodrigo Duterte was linked to one of the earliest and most controversial school shooting incidents in the Philippines. The account came from Duterte himself, who said during a campaign speech in Iloilo City in 2016 that he shot a fraternity brother at San Beda College in Manila in 1972 after

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Food sovereignty: The politics of what Filipinos eat

At a time when the Philippines remains deeply exposed to food imports, climate shocks, nutrition insecurity and the cultural pull of fast food and ultraprocessed diets, Dr. Teodoro C. Mendoza’s “Food Nationalism: Nourishing the Nation” arrives as both an argument and a challenge. It asks Filipinos to rethink food not merely as a commodity or

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CHED merit scholarship program: Students have until June 30 to apply  

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Senior High School graduates seeking government-funded college or technical-vocational education assistance have until June 30 to apply for the Bagong Pilipinas Merit Scholarship Program (BPMSP). The scholarship provides tuition and other school fee support, as well as stipends and allowances, for qualified Filipino students enrolling in priority higher education and Technical

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Tacloban shooting: 14-year-old gunman fired at least 33 shots – PNP

MANILA, Philippines — Investigators found that one of the two teenage suspects in the Tacloban City school shooting fired at least 33 rounds and reloaded his handgun during the incident, which claimed the lives of three students and left at least 20 others wounded. During a briefing in Malacañang on Tuesday, Philippine National Police (PNP)

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Tomas: Halt Monterrazas until catchments withstand Ruping

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Invoking the ghost of Typhoon Ruping, Vice Mayor Tomas Osmeña has reiterated his call for an immediate halt to the 118.4-hectare Monterrazas de Cebu project, warning that the developer’s “fully operational” flood protections are a disaster waiting to happen against a major storm. During the Cebu City Council’s regular session on

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