{"id":247715,"date":"2020-03-11T01:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T05:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=247715"},"modified":"2020-03-11T01:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T05:18:48","slug":"prrd-to-attend-2-public-events-during-his-boracay-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/11\/prrd-to-attend-2-public-events-during-his-boracay-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD to attend 2 public events during his Boracay trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_239264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239264\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AF2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239264\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AF2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AF2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AF2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AF2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AF2-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the Legazpi City Convention Center on December 5, 2019. ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to attend two public engagements during his visit to Boracay on March 12, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo confirmed that Duterte will be pushing through with his Boracay trip to distribute land certificates to beneficiaries there.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said Duterte will not have time to \u201cgo around\u201d the island since he has a second event lined up on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, Duterte said he is willing to visit Boracay to promote local tourism amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u00a0<em>kasi wala nang tao<\/em>\u00a0(Yes, [I\u2019m going] because there are barely any tourists there),\u201d Duterte said in a press briefing after a meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that he has never been to Boracay, and wanted to have \u201csomething to look at\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the open sea, it&#8217;s endless.\u00a0<em>Mabubulag ka<\/em>\u00a0(You\u2019ll be blinded),\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated his promise to give Boracay back to its original settlers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave it to the natives.\u00a0<em>Sabi ko, \u2018Ubusin mo. Ubusin mo. Ang<\/em>\u00a0Boracay\u00a0<em>sa mga<\/em>\u00a0natives.<em>\u00a0Ibigay mo sa kanila, kasi lupa nila &#8216;yan<\/em>\u2019 (I told them, \u2018Finish it, finish it. Boracay belongs to the natives. Give it to them because that land is theirs),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Boracay&#8217;s arrivals suffered from the various travel bans imposed by the government to contain the coronavirus which has so far affected over 100 countries and territories.<\/p>\n<p>On the island, the occupancy rate is 40 percent down, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 26 2018, the Philippines reopened Boracay to tourists after a six-month intensive rehabilitation to rid the beach of pollution and to fix its unregulated sewage system that has contributed to the island&#8217;s &#8220;cesspool&#8221; state in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the \u201cno-touch\u201d policy imposed by the Presidential Security Group (PSG) on Duterte and the first family, Panelo said the President will continue to shake hands with Cabinet official, dignitaries, and others during public engagements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you limit him, he doesn\u2019t want to be limited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to attend two public engagements during his visit to Boracay on March 12, Malaca\u00f1ang &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":239264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247715","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\/247715","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=247715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247718,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247715\/revisions\/247718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}