Congratulations for that. Wow! As we were saying about two days ago, the seaworthiness of the assets of shipping companies need to be thoroughly checked. But the best manner to handle this is to form a safety agency as they are doing in the rest of the world.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is being blamed as the ultimate perpetrator of the killing of the victims of the tragedy. Perchance, so too is Sulpicio Lines.
Why the PCG? Because, well, not because the huge and supposedly luxurious MV Princess of the Stars is a quarter of a century old since many ships can still sail long after they have lived for fifty years or half a century.
Not because the MV Princess of the Stars had gone from one owner to another, then another, then another and so on then Sulpicio Lines grabbed it. And it was probably deemed junk by then. And they had a mighty bargain that they possibly held a five-week-long party to celebrate their tremendous steal!!!
Not because the managers of Sulpicio are terrible idiots at running their shipping company that they allowed the MV Doña Paz to sail into a disaster that ate up the lives of thousands of passengers.
Not because the metallic underside of MV Princess of the Stars was so weak that it had to give during the storm when the ship allegedly sumadsad sa bato (for goodness sake, why does Sulpicio send out low quality amphibian boats that can't withstand rocks?) and the makina ay tumigil. Wow!
That's both unforeseen, fortuitous event and mechanical error. Just the type for insurance companies to pay for when the source of the accident is not human error -- as in that of Sulpicio's.
So now it's accident (nabutas ang bakal) + fortuitous event -- typhoon Frank, pumasok ang tubig + mechanical accident (namatay ang makina).
Equals = insurance claims of nearly a hundred million dollars from insurers and underwriters.
And add to the equation, the poverty of PCG for which reason, Sulpicio sonofabitches fucking shits gave alms to their weary palms.
Someone said, the PCG is so poor that even their diesel is always up for sale. When the President and the higher ups say: "Hoy, habulin ninyo ang Abo Suyya!" "Mga totoy, hulihin ang mga pirata!" "Oy, ano, intersepin niyo ang mga illegal fishing boats!" "Daliiii!" "Ano ba!?!&%$#" "Kilos na!!!"
The PCG will allegedly only very demurely quip:
"Ay Maaam, Siiir, ay surreee po, wala tayo krudu!!!)
So, Sulpicio knowing, and feeling compassion, gave alms to the Coast Guard. And Coast Guard supposedly feeling the crunch, accepted the beggar's relief cash. Possibly some relief goods too.
Sulpicio probably knew there was a disaster-in-waiting. They gave out relief cash and goods in advance.
So now, Sulpicio Lines, cannot and can never be blamed. They have to be the final heroes here, when they open their eyes after taking the insurance and see that they have bodies to bury and money to pay to the surviving kin of all the (fucking, why did they have to be) dead.
Only in the Philippines. Only in the Philippines.
The poor are always at the receiving end of bad Justice systems. So the poor Coast Guard has to pay for the crime.
The PCG Commander, Adm. Tamayo has to go, just because he is penniless and powerless. And his people are so dirt poor and hungry that they're crawling on their belies just to move.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, the weather is now improving with a little touch of dark clouds and a teeny weeny stormy condition approaching. The poor Philippine Coast Guard will no longer have to take the alms of shipping company Sulpicio. Their boss, Sec. Mendoza grounded the alms givers.
Tsk! Tsk! Kawawa naman!
May mga pamilya pa naman ang mga kosgard! Kawawa talaga sila!
Kawawa din ang mga nalunod at namatay at mga pamilya!
Dahil sa kanila, may mga yayaman sa lagay at insurance!!! At dahil nagpakamatay sila, aba'y ala silang suwerti. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
girbaudz:
ReplyDeletetoo harsh, but true girbaudz. truth always hurts. but i am supposed to be coming from the navy myself, except for jocel panlilio's donation to FOIC PN to take me out of the service and be his errand boy. i sympathize with adm. tamayo's plight. the pcg is not to blame for the incident. even if a few palms got greased, after all it's easy just to investigate them and if conditions warrant file the appropriate charges against them. it is dearly wished that safety in this country will improve some time soon. late is always better than never, as they say.