Oceanjet fastcrafts hit snag anew for placing supposed “valued” passengers to an ordeal of an inconvenient sea travel—an ironic clinch of a Holy Week vacation.
Gerry Guidaben of DOLE-Bohol shared a sad experience taking Oceanjet-7 in his return home on Saturday from a fine vacation in Camiguin with family.
Even the supposed air-conditioned accommodation felt like an ordeal in a furnace the whole trip, aside from the misunderstanding with other passengers regarding the seat assignment.
Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) Head Norma Enriquez thought the problem on the poor airconditioning had already been addressed by the management of the fast craft since it occurred in the past.
She said the recent incident reported by Guidaben will be raised to Marina-Cebu and discuss the matter with Oceanjet management.
Enriquez hinted that another investigation on the poor services of the fastcraft company would be conducted to address the recent incident.
According to Guidaben, the aircondition of Oceanjet-7 on their way to Camiguin from Jagna was still working on Thursday. But their trip home on Saturday was an ordeal.
First, they were surprised why their seats were already taken by passengers from Cagayan who supposedly took the non-aircon accommodation.
They learned that the crew allowed them to go down to the air-con accommodation since there were still few passengers when the fast craft left Cagayan.
The bulk of the passengers were from Binoni in Camiguin bound for Jagna.
The confusion even resulted to altercation because the passengers from Cagayan no longer wanted to return to their original seats in non-aircon accommodation upstairs.
According to Guidaben, the crew even advised them to just spread out to the remaining vacant seats. Read more…
The management of Starlite passenger terminal at the Tagbilaran Tourist Port continues to gather criticisms for questionable security system after a reported former member of Kuratong Baleleng Gang managed to sneak in a firearm unnoticed.
Nanette Nicasio, manager of Starlite terminal at the Tagbilaran Tourist Port, earned criticisms from the public as she tried to wash hands in the alleged lapses of the security personnel in the incident which she described as an isolated incident.
Nicasio said the security personnel on duty claimed that they thoroughly frisked all the passengers who came in that time but no one was found carrying a firearm, short of saying the firearm confiscated from the suspect was planted evidence.
She also explained that the incident caused no commotion inside the passenger terminal because the arresting officers calmly invited the suspect to go with them and that it was outside the terminal that they discovered the firearm that he was carrying.
The manager of Starlite terminal, however, admitted she was not present when the team from the provincial police enforced the warrant of arrest against the wanted person from Ozamiz City who was then about to board the Oceanjet bound for Dapitan City.
The terminal manager assured the public, though, that they will fine tune the services of Starlite terminal including the security measures.
She said Starlite will soon provide their own x-ray machine to check the baggage.
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