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NDRRMC adopts resolution to recommend state of calamity in Boracay

By: Frances Mangosing - Reporter / @FMangosingINQ

INQUIRER.net / 07:27 PM April 23, 2018

A 300-meter span at Willy’s Rock in Boracay is the only area allowed for swimming for residents starting
April 26. (Photo by Nestor P. Burgos Jr./INQUIRER VISAYAS)

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council adopted a resolution on
Monday recommending to President Rodrigo Duterte the declaration of state of calamity in Boracay
Island.

“The prevailing conditions in Boracay Island and the urgent need for its temporary closure as a
tourist destination for purposes of rehabilitation, the National Council has agreed to recommend the
declaration of a state of calamity in Boracay Island,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in
the meeting.

The disaster agency, headed by Lorenzana, convened on Monday to discuss the proposed
declaration of state of calamity in the barangays of Balabag, Manoc-Manoc and Yapak (Boracay
Island) in Malay, Aklan, the NDRRMC said in a statement.

The NDRRMC also discussed the recommendation of the temporary closure of the island for six
months for “expeditious rehabilitation.”

Based on the findings of Department of Interior and Local Government and Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, pollution was caused by “improper waste management and
encroachment of protected areas by illegal structures have adversely affected the overall ecological
balance of the island.”

The Department of Science and Technology also said that beach erosion was prevalent in the island,
particularly along Western Beach, where there was as much 40 meters of erosion that has taken
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place from 1993 to 2003. This was said to have been caused by “storms, extraction of sand along
the beach to raise properties and structures along the foreshore.”

President Duterte is expected in the coming days to declare the state of calamity and issue an
executive order to shut down Boracay Island starting April 26.

Last February, the President said Boracay’s water has turned into a “cesspool.” /je

Reference:

Mangosing F. (2018). NDRRMC adopts resolution to recommend state of calamity in

Boracay. Retrieved April 23, 2018 from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/984649/national-disaster-
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declaration#ixzz5DVdT5kx5

For me, it is a human acts because Human acts are imputable to man so as to involve his
responsibility, for the very reason that he puts them forth deliberatively and with self-
determination. They are, moreover, not subject to physical laws which necessitate the agent, but
to a law which lays the will under obligation without interfering with his freedom of choice.
Besides, they are moral. For a moral act is one that is freely elicited with the knowledge of its
conformity with or difformity from, the law of practical reason proximately and the law of God
ultimately. But whenever an act is elicited with full deliberation, its relationship to the law of
reason is adverted to. Hence human acts are either morally good or morally bad, and their
goodness or badness is imputed to man. And as, in consequence, they are worthy of praise or
blame, so man, who elicits them, is regarded as virtuous or wicked, innocent or guilty, deserving
of reward or punishment. Upon the freedom of the human act, therefore, rest imputability and
morality, man's moral character, his ability to pursue his ultimate end not of necessity and
compulsion, but of his own will and choice; in a word, his entire dignity and preeminence in this
visible universe.

So, the DILG's proposal to declare a state of calamity in Boracay is for the purpose of
hastening the mitigation response and rehabilitation efforts of the national government including
the private sector and could warrant international assistance as may be deemed necessary.
Densing said that the targeted halt of business operations in Boracay for 60 days during the
suggested six-month state of calamity in the area would not be detrimental to tourism in Boracay.
“It would allow intentional and purposive breathing space for Boracay to heal itself from human-
induced degradation. And now that the world knows about Boracay being cleaned up, there is an
expected influx of local and international tourists when Boracay is reopened because they would
want to see how has the Island improved,” he said.