Official clarifies cause of glitches at jetty port

 The jetty port administration has explained the glitches that happened Monday morning as both foreign and local tourists complained of disorder at the passenger terminal.

Niven Maquirang, jetty port administrator, said that they have remedied the situation and addressed the complaints. Disorder occurred at the jetty port after the implementation of the "No Sticker, No Entry Policy" among public transport drivers here.

"We have been telling tricycle drivers to renew their respective permits as early as November 2013 but many of them failed to comply. The implementation is supposed to happen on January 1 but we have given them another week to do so but still many of them disobeyed," said Maquirang.

The jetty port administrator started to implement the "No Sticker, No Entry Policy" at the jetty port Monday, January 6.

Records from the jetty port revealed that only around 60 percent of the tricycles in the resort island were able to comply with the accreditation requirements.

"We still continue our accreditation services for tricycle drivers. Once they have complied with the requirements they will be given a sticker which they will be using as entrance to the jetty port," said Maquirang.

Tricycle drivers often get inside the jetty port compound to pick and drop passengers bound for Boracay Island.