Oil companies cut prices today
Local oil companies reduced prices effective today – R0.25 per liter for diesel and R0.10 per liter for both gasoline and kerosene products.
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. started this fresh round of rollback effective 6 a.m., followed by Phoenix Petroleum, PetroGazz, Seaoil, and PTT Philippines with parallel cost reductions and the same implementation timeframe.
The rest of industry competitors are expected to follow.
With more steady swing in global prices, Filipino consumers are getting financial relief, which proves very helpful given the string of spending that they need to look forward to for Christmas.
The foreig PNPA probes hazing of plebe n exchange rate, which is another factor that could exert pressure on oil prices, had been favorable the past weeks, with the Philippine peso gaining value against the US dollar. (Myrna Velasco)
PNPA probes hazing of plebe
The Philippine National Police Academy is investigating five cadets for possible involvement in the alleged hazing of a neophyte cadet who was recently taken to a hospital over suspected physical abuse.
Three upperclassmen of Cadet 4th Class John Desiderio have been identified as those who maltreated him but two more were identified when investigators were able to talk to him.
PNPA spokesman Police Lt. Col. Byron Allatog said the five cadets were immediately placed in isolation pending the results of the investigation.
“The affidavit complaint of subject cadet was already received by our investigator in the hospital and from the initial respondents of three cadets, two others are identified or a total of five now,” said Allatog.
“Said identified cadets will be directed to explain within 24 hours before a formal administrative charge be filed against them,” he added.
Allatog said police investigators from the Silang, Cavite Municipal Police Station have met Desiderio to assist him in the filing of separate criminal charges. (Aaron Recuenco)
22 dead in Mindanao quakes
Families affected by the magnitude-6.6 and -6.5 earthquakes last Oct. 29 and 31 in Tulunan, North Cotabato has climbed to 37,706, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said yesterday.
The NDRRMC said this is equivalent to around 188,533 persons residing in 238 barangays in the Davao region (Region 11) and Socsargen (Region 12 or the South Cotabato, Sarangani, and General Santos City area).
A report, signed and released by NDRRMC Executive Director Ricardo Jalad, said that around 4,800 families which is equivalent to 24,000 persons are now being aided in 34 evacuation centers while another 1,493 families or 7,465 individuals are being helped outside.
Twenty-two persons were killed in the two quakes with 424 injured and two others still missing in Northern Mindanao, Davao region, Socsargen, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. (PNA)
