{"id":186129,"date":"2018-10-20T05:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T09:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=186129"},"modified":"2018-10-20T05:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T09:51:14","slug":"denr-allows-citizens-arrest-vs-litterbugs-boracay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/20\/denr-allows-citizens-arrest-vs-litterbugs-boracay\/","title":{"rendered":"DENR allows citizens&#8217; arrest vs. litterbugs in Boracay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186130\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ilo-boracay10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186130\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ilo-boracay10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ilo-boracay10.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ilo-boracay10-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The White Beach a week before the reopening of Boracay on October 26, 2018. (Photo by Karen Bermejo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BORACAY ISLAND, Aklan<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will allow citizens&#8217; arrests to strictly enforce the guidelines against littering on the island.<\/p>\n<p>DENR Undersecretary for Solid Waste Management and Local Government Benny Antiporda, in a press conference Friday, said this is to prevent the same scenario during the first day of the dry run when trash was found on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not allow it to happen during the island\u2019s reopening on Oct. 26,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Antiporda said that aside from locals, they are also tapping businesses to help enforce the anti-littering ordinance of Boracay Island, known as the \u201cAnti-littering Ordinance of Malay Municipal No. 311\u201d.\u00a0 Fines and imprisonment await violators, he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Antiporda said members of the Compliant Association of Boracay (CAB), a group of hotels, resorts, and restaurants on the island, were given accreditation by the Department of Tourism (DOT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CAB would deputize its members to become Boracay marshals,\u201d he said, adding that each establishment is required to have pollution control officers.<\/p>\n<p>CAB member establishments, he added, would also install trash bins, especially on the beachfront.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous interview, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said environmental enforcers will be deployed to patrol Boracay\u2019s beaches starting on reopening day.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign against single-use plastic will also be strictly implemented on the island, Antiporda added.<\/p>\n<p>Six months after it was shut down for rehabilitation, Boracay reopened for a 10-day dry run on Oct. 15 and port management reported more than 1,300 people entered the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BORACAY ISLAND, Aklan\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will allow citizens&#8217; arrests to strictly enforce the guidelines &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":186130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-karen-bermejo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186129","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}