Kaban ni D_BystandeR: GIPANGITNGITAN ANG KAMATUORAN???

The reason why this company which is known to have incurred so many sea accidents before with their fleets is because the "Office" delegated with the authority to hear and settle conflicts like this is very lax and there is no government effort shown exerted from higher echelon to prod them to do their job smartly and responsibly in a judicious manner so as to impart and instill a lesson and discipline to influence the shipowners to order their ship captains to be extra careful and cautious not to commit the same recklessness again that already claimed so many innocent lives of our sea travelers.

Footnote: The above comment comes in reaction to a column bylined by Atty. Frank Malilong of Sunstar who aired aloud his observation that almost five months have passed since 2Go's M/V St. Thomas Aquinas sank off the coast of Talisay after colliding with the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corp.'s M/V Sulpicio Express Siete and more than three months since the Special Board of Marine Inquiry (SBMI) terminated its hearings on the tragedy - and still no one has made public the result of the inquiry or if one has been made, causing the columnist to ask:  "Is there a conscious effort, one is tempted to ask, to ride on the people's short memory and bury the responsible one's negligence and/or incompetence along with the vessel?”