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Lacson: Juvenile Justice Law Needs Revisiting After Tacloban School Shooting

The Philippine Juvenile Justice Law may need to be revisited in light of recent violent incidents involving minors, including the fatal shooting at a school in Tacloban City last Monday, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson said Wednesday.

Lacson said the law’s provisions on criminal liability deserve renewed public discussion where age should not automatically exempt offenders from accountability, as he cited the gruesome murder case of a two-year-old boy in England in 1993.

“Our Juvenile Justice Law may really need revisiting and further discussion. The February 12, 1993 Liverpool, England case of 2-year-old James Patrick Bulger who was abducted and murdered by two 10-year-old boys may convince us to reconsider age as an automatic exemption from criminal liability. Discernment to be proven beyond reasonable doubt by state prosecutors as per the latest SC ruling should be safeguard enough to serve justice to all concerned,” he said in a post on X.

In Filipino: Lacson: Kailangang Muling Suriin ang Juvenile Justice Law Matapos ang Pamamaril sa Paaralan sa Tacloban

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Ping Lacson’s Speech at Alyansa Rally in Tacloban City, Leyte

Magandang gabi Tacloban City, magandang gabi po Leyte, magandang gabi sa ating lahat!

May dalawang kaganapan na nakaukit sa kasaysayan ng lalawigan ng Leyte, ng Pilipinas, at ng buong mundo. Ang una po ay naganap mahigit 80 taon na ang nakakalipas. Oct. 20, 1944, nang naganap ang pinakamalaking labanang dagat sa buong PH nang dumating si Gen. Douglas MacArthur at sa tulong ng katapangan, kagitingan at kabayanihan ng mga Waray na mga Leytenyo, na-liberate ang Leyte.

Ang pangalawa ay naganap mahigit 11 taon na ang nakalipas noong hinagupit ng Bagyong Yolanda ang 171 cities and municipalities, 14 lalawigan at 6 na rehiyon, kasama ang Leyte at Tacloban City na kung saan mahigit 6,000 ang namatay, mahigit 18,000 ang sugatan, at mahigit 11,000 ang nawawala. At ang nasalanta ay hindi ma-estimate ng maski sino.

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Interpellation of the DPWH budget for 2019

During the interpellation of the DPWH’s budget for 2019, Sen. Lacson raised the following issues:
* the addition of P75 billion in the DPWH’s budget in the National Expenditure Program, without the DPWH’s knowledge
* woes of landowners whose lots were affected by DPWH projects with right-of-way components
* some data of the DPWH website being inaccessible when the DPWH’s budget is up for deliberation

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