News Roundup 10 June 2023
Jun 10, 2023 • 4 min Read
Over 9,300 brought to evacuation centers amid Mayon Volcano unrest — NDRRMC | PHILSTAR.COM – MANILA, Philippines — Nearly 10,000 residents have already been evacuated in Albay procince as th Mayon Volcano continued to threaten the public with lava fountains and moderate-sized explosions whille under Alert Level 3.
The volcano exhibited multiple rockfall events and caused earthquakes in the last 24 hours with a visible crater glow (banaag), this after a state of calamity was declared upon the whole Albay province in Region 5.
“A total of 2,638 families or 9,314 persons were affected,” according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on Saturday.
“Of which, 2,638 families or 9,314 persons were served inside 21 [evacuation centers] and 0 families or 0 persons were served outside EC.”
Among those under the state of calamity are 18 cities and/or municipalities in Albay, allowing their provincial government to use quick response funds and control prices of basic goods.
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Meralco rates up this June; Gas prices seen higher | PHILSTAR.COM – MANILA, Philippines — Customers of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will see an increase in their electricity bills this month, following the completion of a distribution-related refund.
Meralco said the electricity rate this June is higher by P0.4183 per kilowatt-hour, rising to P11.9112 per kWh from P11.4929 last month.
The upward adjustment is equivalent to an increase of around P84 in the electricity bills for residential customers consuming 200 kWh, P125 for those consuming 300 kWh, P167 for 400 kWh and P209 for 500 kWh.
MANILA, Philippines — Customers of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will see an increase in their electricity bills this month, following the completion of a distribution-related refund.
Meralco said the electricity rate this June is higher by P0.4183 per kilowatt-hour, rising to P11.9112 per kWh from P11.4929 last month.
The upward adjustment is equivalent to an increase of around P84 in the electricity bills for residential customers consuming 200 kWh, P125 for those consuming 300 kWh, P167 for 400 kWh and P209 for 500 kWh.
This is the second consecutive month of increase in Meralco rates, following a hike of P0.1761 per kWh last month.
Driving the overall rate increase was the completion of the last distribution-related refund in May equivalent to P0.8656 per kWh for residential customers.
Meralco has implemented four distribution rate true-up adjustments totaling P48.3 billion from March 2021 to May 2023, which translated to about P1.8009 per kWh refund for residential customers.
Full Story at: Meralco rates up this June; Gas prices seen higher | Philstar.com
4 Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash | INQUIRER.NET – BOGOTA – Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country’s south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said.
The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed.
The plane — a Cessna 206 — was carrying seven people on a route between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, when it issued a Mayday alert due to engine failure in the early hours of May 1.
Three adults, including the pilot and the children’s mother Magdalena Mucutuy, died as a result of the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane. The four siblings, aged 13, 9, 4, as well as a now 12-month-old baby, survived the impact.
Narcizo Mucutuy, the grandfather of the three girls and one boy, told reporters he was delighted at the news of their rescue.
“As the grandfather to my grandchildren who disappeared in the jungles of the Yari, at this moment I am very happy,” he said.
Photos shared by Colombia’s military showed a group of soldiers with the four children in the middle of the jungle.
Full Story at: 4 Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash | Inquirer News
Kabataan raises alert after reported Samar student suicide, calls on gov’t to address ‘mental health crisis’ | INQUIRER.NET – MANILA, Philippines— The Kabataan Party-list on Saturday, June 9, called on the Marcos administration to give attention to the “prevailing mental health crisis” in the country, a day after a student of the University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) was reportedly found dead in her lodging house in Catarman, Northern Samar, on the day of the university’s commencement exercises.
The alleged suicide was first reported on Friday by the UEP student publication The Pillar, which said a death note was found in the student’s room, in which she apologized to her parents for failing to graduate on time.
Full Story at: Kabataan raises alert after reported Samar student suicide, calls on gov’t to address ‘mental health crisis’ | Inquirer News
