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Duterte: Boracay is government property

By Rigoberto D. Tiglao April 11, 2018

So, what happens now to Andrew Tan’s condos in Boracay Newcoast?

A huge 15 percent of the island, the so-called Boracay Newcoast, is now owned by the

country’s ninth richest person (according to the Forbes magazine 2017 list), property tycoon

Andrew Tan. Boracay Newcoast will have a big hotel there partly owned by the eighth

richest Filipino of Jollibee fame, Tony Tan Caktiong. Boracay Newcoast has even started

selling properties there, with its 500 sq m lot priced at P46 million and a 37 sq m unit at its

for four condominium buildings now being constructed at P7 million.

Duterte pooh-poohed the threats that Boracay’s closure would severely dent the nation’s

income from tourism, which in turn would lower our GDP. (It would but only marginally.)

Only this kind of president who defied even the most powerful nation on earth, I think, could

have ignored such serious economic blackmail.

By declaring that the island is government’s property, Duterte in one fell swoop has cut the

Gordian knot that is the mess that is Boracay.

He should move quickly though to enact a law that would allow an orderly titling of lands

that had been declared as “agriculture” and only to small land-claimants, in fairness to those

who have been occupying their properties for, say, 10 years.

Tourists to Boracay should be allowed for a day’s visit, to be booked in nearby Caticlan in

the Aklan mainland, where the huge resorts should be restricted to.

Future generations of Filipinos will be grateful to Duterte if Boracay is restored to its pristine

paradisiacal beauty.

Email: tiglao.manilatimes@gmail.com

Facebook: Rigoberto Tiglao

Twitter: @bobitiglao

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