A VETERAN ship captain and maritime executive slammed the suggestions made by House Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation chairman Kristine Alexie Tutor that manning agencies and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) should find a new market for seafarers amid "pirate" attacks and low remittances.

Tutor said in a statement that Filipino seafarers would rather risk death, serious injury, or abduction in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz than lose their jobs.

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