Firm apologizes for high-risk rating

Firm apologizes for high-risk rating

MANILA (DPA): A United States intelligence service company has
apologized for a misleading travel risk report it published on
the Philippines, which described the country as a "high-risk"
place for visits and business, the presidential spokesman said on
Monday.

Presidential Spokesman Jerry Barican said Pinkerton Global
Intelligence Services has sent a letter clarifying that it was
the company's policy to apply a high-risk warning against a
country even if only certain areas fit the status.

"Owing largely to a series of insurgences of domestic
Communist and radical religious groups, we have carried the
Philippines as 'high risk' for 15 years," said Frank Johns, a top
official of the Virginia-based Pinkerton, in the letter.

"To those Philippine citizens or government officials who may
have been hurt or angered by the press accounts of our reporting
- you have our deepest apologies," Johns said.