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Boracay informal workers uneasy but hopeful
Informal workers are feeling the pinch of this island resort’s temporary shutdown for a much needed rehabilitation. Their common complaint is the dramatic drop in their daily income.
According to the International Labor ...
- May 8, 2018
Boracay Water investing P1.15B for sewerage treatment plant
Boracay Island Water Co., a unit of Ayala-led Manila Water Co. Inc., is investing around P1.15 billion to put up a third sewerage treatment plant and a sewer network in the island. The company will construct the sewerage ...
- June 25, 2018
'No direction'
"The government arbitrarily declared Boracay closed supposedly for rehabilitation but to this day it has no clear detailed action plan yet to address a lot of issues," said Zarate. Among the issues confronting the island ...
- June 11, 2018
Importance of coral reefs
The World Resources Institute has predicted that by 2030, over 90 percent of the country's coral reef will be threatened. Destructive fishing, coastal development, agriculture, aquaculture, and lack of treatment for ...
- March 7, 2016
Grief and anger: For Boracay’s poor sectors, closure worse than ‘Yolanda’
It was like being struck by super typhoon “Yolanda”. This was how a Boracay-based alliance of various basic and sectoral organizations described the island’s closure from April 26 to Oct. 25. While the government praised ...
- October 29, 2018
Capiz governor vows to save Panay River
Capiz governor Antonio del Rosario promised to revitalize the Panay River, which he claimed to have become “polluted” and “not fit for human activities.” Del Rosario plans to form a Panay River Council, under which a “Task ...
- August 29, 2016
Belgium lauds Boracay rehab, PH bid for sustainable tourism
The Duterte administration's decision to rehabilitate Boracay was a "very good decision" after all, Belgian Ambassador to Manila Michel Goffin said. "Let's be frank, when you cleaned Boracay, when you cleaned El Nido, this ...
- November 20, 2018
More tourists, more trash?
We are aghast by a recent report about a tourist defecating on Boracay Island’s white-sand shores, and another burying diaper on the sand? What on earth were they thinking? We are reminded by this usual equation: The more ...
- August 24, 2019
'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
DENR's bike ride kicks off earth day celebration '17
Organization by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 6, it was the first ever Earth Day Bike Ride which Culminated with a mangrove -planting activity at the Katunggan Park in Barangay Guaan, ...
- April 28, 2017