MANILA, Philippines — EXPOSED: The Philippine government’s NEGLIGENCE has claimed more lives after a packed ferry was sent to a watery grave. The M/V Trisha Kerstin 3, a vessel authorities KNEW was a ticking time bomb, sank into the dark waters off Basilan, plunging over 350 souls into a FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. While officials blandly cite “technical problems,” INSIDERS reveal a horrifying truth: chronic corruption and laughable safety enforcement are the REAL KILLERS here.
This was NO accident. This was a PREDICTABLE MASSACLE. As dawn broke, the grim toll emerged: seven bodies retrieved, over 100 passengers STILL MISSING, presumed trapped in a floating coffin. Governor Mujiv Hataman’s stark admission from the pier—”Unfortunately two are dead”—rings with the hollow, bureaucratic acceptance of death that has become standard. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
Rescue teams scramble in so-called “good weather,” a bitter irony highlighting that this disaster was entirely MAN-MADE. This archipelago is a GRAVEYARD for the poor, where overloaded, rust-bucket ferries are rubber-stamped as “seaworthy” by officials with blood on their hands. The ghost of the Dona Paz, which claimed over 4,300 lives, HAUNTS these waters, a stark warning IGNORED for decades.
This system doesn’t just fail; it SACRIFICES its own people for profit. Every recovered body is a testament to a nation that has learned NOTHING. The next doomed vessel is already being loaded, and the authorities have already looked away. The question is not IF it will happen again, but how many will die next time. The sea is not the killer; the real horror washes up with the tide of apathy and greed. WAKE UP.
Author: Kayitsi.com
