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(Eagle News) — Isang patunay ng political will ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang muling pagbubukas ng Boracay makalipas ang anim na buwang rehabilitasyon. Ayon kay Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, bukod sa political will ng Pangulo, ang leksyon ng isla ay ang pagpapabaya ng mga responsableng opisyal sa pananatili ng kalinisan ng isla. “Boracay is a lesson of political will, as exhibited by PRRD and yet, it is also a lesson of neglect, misfeasance and malfeasance […]
(Eagle News)– Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat on Thursday, Sept. 13, said it will take a year before Boracay is completely rehabilitated. Speaking before the hearing on the Tourism department’s proposed P3.39-billion budget for 2019, Puyat said although there would be a soft opening of the island on Oct. 26, this covered only Phase 1 of the rehabilitation, which includes the construction of major roads. She said Phase 2 will have hopefully been completed by April 2019, […]
(Eagle News) — The schedule of the Boracay rehabilitation and clean up might be extended beyond six months. This came after Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu revealed that more than 40 illegal pipelines were discovered in a beachfront where tourists usually go swimming. The illegal pipelines were discovered after the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) conducted surveys using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). The agency also discovered that waters […]
By Jodi Bustos Eagle News Service The Philippines may bid for the hosting of the 2019 Miss Universe pageant as a way to reintroduce a newly rehabilitated Boracay to the world. Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo said it was President Rodrigo Duterte himself who raised the possibility in jest, after Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez asked how they would promote the island again after the six-month closure. “I know it’s pabiro, sabi niya ‘eh baka pwede natin […]
Threatens to charge those opposing Boracay rehab plan (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said he would place Boracay under a state of calamity, threatening to charge those preventing the government from restoring the world-famous island into its “pristine state.” Duterte said he would declare the state of calamity as proposed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government. “Kung ayaw nila mag-cooperate and they begin to protest, kayo naman ang may […]
