{"id":25953,"date":"2018-02-14T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=25953"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T02:42:40","slug":"duterte-gives-denr-6-months-to-fix-boracay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/02\/14\/duterte-gives-denr-6-months-to-fix-boracay\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte gives DENR 6 months to &#8220;fix Boracay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Philippines, <strong>Boracay<\/strong> is one of the most visited tourist destinations.\u00a0Located in Aklan in Central Visayas, Boracay\u00a0has stunning beaches with white sand and clear blue waters surrounded the island.<\/p>\n<p>What seems to be a paradise is now trouble. The influx of tourists has somehow created environmental problems that caught the attention of the local officials in Boracay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25963\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/02\/boracay-2065643_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE www.pixabay.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year, President Rodrigo Duterte\u00a0is giving Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu 6 months to\u00a0address the issues in Boracay, specifically those business establishments who are not following environmental regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte approved an executive order that would gather a task force to help improve Boracay&#8217;s current state. If not successful, the president said that he will order the closure of Boracay Island, calling it a &#8220;cesspool&#8221; during the Manila Times Business Forum in Davao City last February 9, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that Boracay made the headlines. Different business establishments on the island have been featured on local news, as some of the island&#8217;s\u00a0regulations are not being followed, like sanitation standards.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/195703-duterte-warning-close-boracay?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nation\">Rappler<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/news\/regions\/642962\/boracay-resort-owners-express-concern-over-duterte-rsquo-s-threat-to-close-the-island\/story\/\">GMA News<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/manila\/local-news\/2018\/02\/10\/duterte-wants-shut-down-boracay-588243\">SunStar<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A task force is created to help Boracay&#8217;s environmental problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/02\/boracay-2065643_1280-e1518575680813.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25967,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25953\/revisions\/25967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}