QC lawmaker pushes passage of adolescent pregnancy prevention bill

Faith Argosino 06/04/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City 1st district Rep. Juan Carlos “Arjo” Atayde is pushing for the passage of a measure seeking to prevent adolescent pregnancy in the country, which has the highest teenage birth rates among member-states…

Teenage mom turned Palengke Queen

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 05/12/2018

She dreamed of becoming a teacher. But at 14, Catherine Caritero found herself pregnant. It was February 2001 and Catherine was a second year high school student at a public school in Lapu-Lapu City. She broke the…

Teenage drug suspect, three others caught in Talisay, Carcar cities

Rene F. Alima 05/02/2018

An underaged drug suspect was caught by police with P35,000 worth of shabu at a checkpoint in Barangay San Roque, Talisay City at 10 p.m last Tuesday, May 1. Three others were arrested in separate drug busts…

Too early

Sofia Aliño Logarta 11/29/2017

Recent updates on children’s concerns have highlighted the issue of teenage pregnancy. The Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study stressed that “The victims of teenage pregnancy are the girl herself, her child, her parents and relatives and…

Teenage girl jumps to her death from the 7th floor of her school’s building

Agnes Alpuerto, Benjie B. Talisic 09/28/2017

A senior high school student jumped off the seventh floor of a college building in Barangay Kalubihan, Cebu City, on Thursday afternoon. The student, a 17-year old girl, was rushed to the hospital but was later pronounced…

Online media as influencer

05/10/2017

What do the rising number of teenage pregnancies, online sexual extortion and cyberpornography cases have in common? They all involve youths, mostly underage and female, who are victimized by sexual predators either old enough to be their…

A teenager’s story on why he almost jumped the billboard

Apple Ta-as 07/18/2015

Hungry teen roamed Cebu streets for four days with P300 The young man who almost jumped off a billboard Friday night had  roamed Metro Cebu for four  days without a place to sleep or  a full meal.…

DOH: Teenage girls contracting cervical cancer

Melissa Q. Cabahug 03/12/2015

Here’s one reason teenage girls should avoid having premarital sex. More than half of the 6,670 cases of cervical cancer in the country were contracted by teenage girls last year, the Department of Health in Central Visayas…

‘J’ may not be home for Christmas

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/19/2014

Like any teenager, 16-year old “J” wants to be home  for Christmas but she’s stuck in Cebu. The prosecutor handling the estafa complaint filed against the minor from  Southern Leyte  for non-payment of over P2,000 in salon…

Teenage ‘J’ to remain in Cebu

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/16/2014

She’s not going home to Southern Leyte yet. The 16-year-old girl who was detained for failing to pay her bills in a resort, will have to stay  in Cebu for the meantime to complete her “reformation,” a…

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