Duterte: “I won’t offer Boracay to bitch representatives!”

Duterte Perspective

President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday parried feedback that the administration isn’t true in its

endeavors to restore Boracay, after the state gaming controller stretched out a temporary

permit to set up a club resort om the occasion goal.

Nevertheless Duterte kept up that his arrangement for Boracay is to tidy up and put the island

under land change.

“You know, ang aking thinking ngayon, I will announce Boracay as a land change zone. Ibigay ko,

ibalik ‘yan sa mga natibo… wala akong kaibigang negosyante na mayaman na sabihin mo, ibigay

ko ‘yang Boracay,” the President said in a discourse in Marawi City.

Last March, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. allowed Galaxy Entertainment Group

Limited and Leisure and Resorts World Corp. a temporary permit for Boracay Philippines Resort

and Leisure Corp., a completely possessed auxiliary of Galaxy Entertainment.

Meanwhile Cosmic system Entertainment and LRWC plan to construct a $500-million incorporated

resort-club complex in a 23-hectare property in Barangay Manoc-Manoc on Boracay.

The President, nonetheless, announce a month ago that no gambling club would be develop on Boracay

and that he was setting it under land change, refering to a Supreme Court choice in October 2008 that

pronounce the island, which it delegate forest and rural, as state claim.

Meanwhile Boracay was shut to voyagers on April 26 to give path for a six-month restoration process for the island

that is reeling from ecological corruption and uncheck tourism.

Duterte has since shaped a between office team to supervise the recovery endeavors.