by magnolia_eic | Aug 23, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, Aug. 23 (PIA)– KASAMTANGAN’G gipa-kanselar sa Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) ang permit aron maka-byahe ang tanang barko sa Island Express Shipping human masunog ang usa nila ka barko nga niresulta sa pagkamatay sa tulo ka tawo niadtong Domingo.
Dungan niini, gitahasan ni DOTC Secretary Mar Roxas ang Board of Marine Inquiry nga ipatawag ang opisyal sa maong shipping company aron makuhaan og pahayag kalabot sa maong insidente.
“At this point, public safety is our primordial concern. I will not allow shipping companies to take chances with the lives of the passengers. DOTC will ensure that whenever a passenger steps on a ship, he can be certain that ship will have passed all the stringent requirements for safety,” matud pa ni Sec. Roxas.
Partikular nga wala gipa-byahe ang usa ka fast craft ug upat pang RORO vessel sa maong kumpanya. Kini aron masiguro nga tanang sakyanang pangdagat sa maong kumpanya luwas sa paglayag.
Kahinumdoman nga gikan sa Cebu paingon sa Tubigon, Bohol ang M/V Island Fastcraft I sa dihang nasunog, mga lima ka milya ang gilay-on sa Habagatang-Sidlakan sa Lawis ledge, Cebu City nga niresulta sa pagkamatay sa tulo katawo.
Gi-ila ang mga biktimang pasahero nga sila Matea Infiesto, 62 ug Nicetas Cabrera, 73-anyos, parehong taga Clarin, Bohol ug ang Chief Mate sa barko nga si Avelardo Torrevillas Sr., 57- anyos. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 2, 2010 | Headlines, National News
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III on Sunday ordered Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. and the heads of three other government agencies to look into the cancellation of 11 flights by the Philippine Air Lines last Friday after several of its pilots reportedly resigned from
their posts.
The Chief Executive said he had tasked the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC), Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), Department of Justice (DoJ) as well as the Executive Secretary to get to the bottom of this issue.
“The Executive Secretary together with the Secretary of the DoTC (Department of Transportation and Communication) and at the minimum the DoLE (Department of Labor and Employment) Secretary and probably the DoJ Secretary also will be sitting down with the (Philippine Air Lines) management and Airline Pilot Association of the Philippines tomorrow,” the President said.
The President pointed out that the group will be conducting two separate meetings “to address the situation and provide everybody with solutions.”
The President reminded PAL and the pilots of their obligations to the flying public.
“PAL, for instance, has obligations when they secured the franchise to operate this public conveyance. The pilots also have obligations. This is of course being studied.
The President meanwhile seriously took note of the disruption caused to “our tourist and to other aspects of the economy that would need their services.”
“If this is not warranted, then, they lay themselves also open to appropriate charges. Hopefully, we will be able to come up with a resolution, so that the riding public is not inconvenienced and the economy does not suffer because of this,” he added. (PIA-Bohol)
