The Basilan government has extended financial assistance to some of the passengers of the ill-fated ferry, which caught fire Wednesday night, March 29, and claimed at least 29 lives in the sea off Baluk-Baluk Island in Hadji Muhtamad town in the province. This, as Governor Jim Salliman personally visited the survivors of MV Lady Mary Joy 3 at the passengers’ terminal in Isabela City.