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'Help displaced Boracay residents'
Vice Mayor Abram Sualog appeals to the inter-agency group tasked to restore Boracay to find a relocation site for displaced island residents. Sualog was referring to locals whose houses were built on Boracay’s wetlands and ...
- April 16, 2018
Tourist arrivals up by 8.4 percent in August even with Boracay closure
The Department of Tourism has also released a new list of Boracay establishments where tourists may stay once the island reopens. Romulo-Puyat said the island’s reopening on Oct. 26 is just the first phase of the island’s ...
- October 15, 2018
Zumba, cleanup activity hopes to raise awareness vs plastic use in Boracay
More than 200 participants joined the Zumba and cleanup activity on Boracay’s Bulabog Beach on Wednesday, Oct. 31, to raise awareness against single-use plastic. The Halloween-themed activity led by the Philippine Red ...
- November 3, 2018
Pollution causes algal bloom
An Aklanon government scientist insisted that pollution is the main cause of the algal bloom in this island resort. Raymund Jacinto Sucgang, a researcher for the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute of the Department of ...
- May 26, 2015
Supreme Court asked to compel gov't to protect West PH Sea environment
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), along with fisherfolk from Palawan and Zambales, filed with the Supreme Court yesterday a petition against some members of the Cabinet and heads of several government agencies ...
- April 17, 2019
One- stop shop to open for Boracay businesses
A one-stop shop will be opened in this island resort to cater to business establishments that have to secure for permits in compliance with the existing environmental laws. Establishing the shop will help the businesses ...
- July 30, 2018
'No whitewash'
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared that the oil spill here had been contained, and assured residents yesterday that there will be no whitewash in the investigation. "It will take more than an oil slick to sink this ...
- September 7, 2006
Gov’t mulls Sept. Boracay ‘soft opening’
Boracay may have a “soft opening” on the first week of September, according to the interagency task force overseeing the island’s rehabilitation. The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), a member of the task ...
- June 21, 2018
Sum-ag River now a tourist destination
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved on its third and final reading a proposed ordinance establishing Sum-ag River as a tourist destination. The city has become a gateway for various tourist destinations, and it is the ...
- November 22, 2022