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Ferry Testigo May 28 2023 Enid Encarnacion
Ferry Testigo May 28 2023 Enid Encarnacion
acaguetean. El tener que estar luchando para existir cansa la paciencia y cuando los
reclamos de la gente caen en oídos sordos más. El servicio de transporte marítimo es
la vena que nos mantiene con vida y ahora mismo está estrangulada por la política
pública de empujar el turismo desplazando al residente."
Copied from Facebook, written by the Vieques municipal police, Enid Encarnación.
"Usually I'm at the Port of Vieques at 5:10 am. I'm not used to buying an advance ticket
because if something happens that you can't travel, they don't refund your money. While in
line, Mr. Hugo Quiles is upset, because there are no tickets to return early, with tickets only
available for 8:00 pm. When it's my turn, the employee who attends me is very cheerful. HMS
recruited a sta totally disconnected and apathetic to the needs of the residents.
They think that to pay the ticket to return at 8:00 pm, is to accept the terms... I had to go, since
I receive therapies through the FSE in Fajardo. Missing the appointment is fatal because they
close the case. Imagine the level of anxiety since that time. Because in Ceiba if you don't have
the ticket for the exact time, they won't let you board even if the boat is empty.
They send you to change the ticket and you can lose the boat because there is only one
window and the employee takes 5 minutes per resident to create the ticket
The HMS system requests the name and telephone number. The unusual thing is that all of us
who had tickets to return at 8:00pm were able to return on the trips that were ALL SOLD OUT
earlier because a miracle happened...spaces appeared on the 1:00, 3:00 and 5:00 trips :30 in
the afternoon.
HMS does not give the resident priority to change the ticket.
Residents instead have to compete with visitors for spaces. That was what happened in Ceiba.
The HMS employee at the resident's window was taking 15 minutes per customer while they
had 3 windows open for tourists, taking 2 minutes each. I had to shout that they stop selling
our spaces to tourists who want to come to our houses. There was not a single supervisor or
employee serving the line outside, not even to reassure us.
They gave my sister the wrong ticket. The employee in Culebra made a mistake in the schedule
by placing AM instead of PM.
She was not allowed to board the ship for Culebra. The ship has capacity for more than 300
passengers and the number was less than 300 and they did not board her.
I would not like to think that because of the sports activity carried out in Vieques, residents
were displaced for the 8:00 pm trip so that visitors could monopolize the spaces. I would not
like to think that the trucks that bring us food and products were left in Ceiba because the
vollyball club had reserved spaces over a month ago (although HMS does not have that service
and to get to Vieques by car you need the authorization of the Mayor) I would not like to think
that the Mayors of the municipal islands lend themselves to the abuse of the residents.
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This is the result of moving a transportation system from one area to another without bothering
to plan for it. The Government strangles ATM to collapse the service.
They sold the dream to the residents that the solution was to privatize the services and now
we are in this crisis of existence.
They have placed Tourism $$$ above the welfare of the residents of Vieques and Culebra.
A Vollyball team has more priority than the truck from the hardware store, the truck from the
supermarkets, the truck and the milk.
They have to wait until Monday, that is, the Viequenses wait until Monday. Because here you
don't eat. I am grateful that in some places on the Big Island the residents of the municipal
islands attend rst, they have understood that we have limited time to return to our homes, that
we are not jangeo and hesitant.
The mayors of the other 66 municipalities do not go out of their way to make us visit them or
provide us with transportation. they don't abuse us
-they cuddle
Having to ght to exist tires your patience and when you claim them
The maritime transport service is the vein that keeps us alive and right now it is strangled by
the public policy of promoting tourism displacing the resident."
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