INQToday: Signal No. 4 still up as Typhoon Julian keeps strength
Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories:
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 4 remains hoisted over parts of extreme Northern Luzon as Typhoon Julian maintains its strength.
Increases in petroleum products will welcome motorists in the first week of October, with oil companies hiking the per liter prices by as much as 90 centavos.
In separate advisories, Cleanfuel and Shell Pilipinas said diesel prices would climb by 90 centavos, while gasoline would increase by 45 centavos a liter.
The Philippine National Police will reopen its investigation into the murder of retired general and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) board secretary Wesley Barayuga in 2020 as new details came to light implicating high-ranking officials in the killing.
Article continues after this advertisementPNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil issued the statement on Sunday after Lt. Col. Santie Mendoza of the PNP Drug Enforcement Group alleged last week during a House committee investigation on extrajudicial killings under the Duterte administration that National Police Commissioner Edilberto Leonardo and former PCSO General Manager Royina Garma—both retired police colonels—were the brains behind Barayuga’s murder.
Article continues after this advertisementThe Armed Forces of the Philippines on Sunday said it had not monitored any Chinese military exercises near Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, contrary to Beijing’s claim on Saturday, when the Philippines carried out joint drills with its allies in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).
Beijing said it had organized its air and sea forces to conduct maneuvers around the shoal after the Philippines, together with the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, conducted the fourth multilateral maritime cooperative activity (MMCA).
