{"id":178029,"date":"2018-08-22T04:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=178029"},"modified":"2018-08-22T04:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:44:19","slug":"duterte-vows-anew-not-allow-gambling-boracay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/22\/duterte-vows-anew-not-allow-gambling-boracay\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte vows anew not to allow gambling in Boracay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI will not allow gambling. I\u2019m not issuing any franchise for gambling in the entire Philippines now. It\u2019s a moratorium. I don\u2019t like it. I hate gambling,\u201d Duterte said in his speech during the League of Municipalities of the Philippines Visayas Island Cluster Conference in Cebu City on Tuesday. (ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL FILE PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo R. Duterte reiterated that he will not allow gambling on Boracay Island despite the provisional license given to a Macau-based firm to construct a resort-casino in the top tourist destination.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not allow gambling. I\u2019m not issuing any franchise for gambling in the entire Philippines now. It\u2019s a moratorium. Ayaw ko (I don\u2019t like it). I hate gambling,\u201d Duterte said in his speech during the League of Municipalities of the Philippines Visayas Island Cluster Conference in Cebu City on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cKung may mga resort diyan (So if there\u2019s a resort there), they still talk about gambling, you better say it to them at an early time. No more gambling,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte has repeatedly said that Boracay Island is a forestal and agriculture area and that if lawmakers preferred to keep the commercial quality of the island, he would allow a strip of land for that purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are targeting the lands behind — remember that the entire land is still forestal and agriculture. Nobody but nobody can set up anything there that\u2019s commercial,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo more construction, no nothing. It will be destroyed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The President further said that he will give Boracay Island \u201cto the natives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mangyans who are there who are present will have it,\u201d Duterte said. The President was referring to the Ati people.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Duterte said he is eyeing the creation of a committee that will identify the land owners of Boracay Island, which is currently undergoing rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

\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 Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Upon Duterte\u2019s orders, the government closed Boracay to tourists on April 26. It is set to re-open on October 26.<\/p>\n

Duterte, meanwhile, declared the entire Boracay Island as a land reform area last May 30.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang, however, assured that all investments are still welcome in Boracay Island except casinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— President Rodrigo R. Duterte reiterated that he will not allow gambling on Boracay Island despite the provisional license given …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":161007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178029","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=178029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}