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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
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MANILA – Malacañang said it is conducting a “factual” and “legal” investigation into the environmental issues in the island of Boracay.
Boracay establishments are facing closure after President Rodrigo Duterte called the tourist hotspot a “cesspool.”
“We are in the process of conducting factual and legal investigation,” Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said in an interview with CNN Philippines on Tuesday.
Roque also stressed that the President does not want the total shutdown of Boracay.
“What I thought the President said was six months for the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) secretary to submit his recommendations on what to do with Boracay,” he said.
Roque’s statement was contradicting with that of Local Government secretary Eduardo Año.
Año said Boracay must be closed if its environmental problems remain unfixed within six months.
“Secretary Año interpreted the mandate of the President as ‘within six months, do everything you can to preserve Boracay.’ This is something that needs to be clarified,” Roque stressed.
The Malacañang official said business owners in the island are “worried” over the “unscientific” closure of the famed beach destination.
“As resort owners, they’d want to see Boracay clean and rehabilitated because all their investments would go under of it’s destroyed,” Roque added./PN
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