Just text or for tickets. Pages Home. Labels cinema dateline gorecho law politics seafarer travel UP. Sunday, July 22, Intoy Syokoy, Filipino seafarers, and piracy. But what will he do to when she offers to drop by his hovel-on-stilts to quench his passion, but before it happens Nature has chosen to play a joke on his tahong cage?
Will it be goodbye to his tahong business or to his damsel-in-distress and ultimately to Kalye Marino? From Eros S. Kenneth Salva As a maritime lawyer representing the Filipino seafarers, I commend the producers for tackling the issue of piracy that continue to plague the seafaring industry. In this Cinemalaya entry, Kenneth Salva portrayed the role of one of Intoy's barkada who wanted to follow the footstep of his father who is a seafarer.
His dream collapsed after receiving news that his father was killed during a piracy incident while on the high seas. Seafarers are on the frontline of the piracy problem. In recent years, thousands of seafarers have been killed, injured, assaulted, taken hostage or threatened as piracy and armed robbery have increased dramatically..
All seafarers transiting the Gulf of Aden and Northern Indian Ocean, have to live with the risk of attack. When ships are attacked by pirates, crews suffer the stress of being fired upon with guns and rocket propelled grenades and those captured can be held hostage for months.
Following a piracy attack those involved can be seriously affected by post traumatic stress. As a policy, the Philippine government does not negotiate with nor pay ransom to kidnappers, but gives ship owners the free hand in negotiating for the release of abducted Filipino sailor. The employer becomes liable once it is established that the seafarer died during the effectivity of his employment contract.
