{"id":174425,"date":"2018-08-01T04:09:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174425"},"modified":"2018-08-01T04:09:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:09:02","slug":"investments-except-casinos-welcome-boracay-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/01\/investments-except-casinos-welcome-boracay-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Investments except casinos welcome in Boracay: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155013\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/boracay-beauty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155013\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/boracay-beauty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/boracay-beauty.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/boracay-beauty-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cI think what the President said is that he will not allow casinos. All other investments are otherwise welcome into Boracay,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a Palace briefing. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; All investments, except casinos, are still welcome in Boracay, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday, insisting that President Rodrigo R. Duterte will not allow the construction of a gambling establishment in the top tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what the President said is that he will not allow casinos. All other investments are otherwise welcome into Boracay,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Macau-based Galaxy Entertainment Group and its Filipino partner, AB Leisure Exponent Inc., earlier revealed a plan to build a USD500-million integrated resort-casino complex on a 23-hectare property in Barangay Manoc-Manoc on Boracay Island.Roque explained that Duterte \u201cdoes not like\u201d casinos because they encouraged certain types of gambling activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President does not like casinos as a matter of public policy. It is contrary to good morals. It encourages a vice, which is gambling,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Roque warned private corporations from proceeding with construction of establishments despite the President\u2019s firm belief that Boracay Island is a forestal and agriculture area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think any private entity should test the political will of the President on the issue of casinos in Boracay. The President has said no, and I would hope they would respect that as part of Executive power,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a private entity being given a provisional license to proceed with construction, Roque described the license as \u201cconditional\u201d and \u201cprovisional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is subject to the happening of conditions which will never be fulfilled because the President has said he will not allow it,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>On July 4, Duterte said that he is eyeing the creation of a committee that will identify the land owners of Boracay Island, which is currently undergoing rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Yang<\/em>\u00a0(That) Boracay,\u00a0<em>sinasabi ko<\/em>\u00a0(I\u2019m telling you), allow government to clean it. And after that, I will return Boracay to its rightful owners,\u201d Duterte said in an earlier speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the problem is how to determine who owns what. There has to be a committee to be fair to everybody. From the local government then from the origins of any title there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Upon Duterte\u2019s orders, the government closed Boracay to tourists on April 26. It is set to re-open on October 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; All investments, except casinos, are still welcome in Boracay, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday, insisting that President Rodrigo R. Duterte &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":155013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}