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Boracay to shutdown for 6 months!


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MANILA - The resort island of Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months from April 26 to fix sewage and environment-related problems that have led President Rodrigo Duterte to describe it as a "cesspool".

 

Mr Duterte approved the recommendation by three government agencies to shut down Boracay, his spokesman Harry Roque told reporters late on Wednesday (April 4).

 

The go-ahead was given despite pleas to carry out the shutdown in phases and to limit its scope.

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-to-close-boracay-to-tourists-for-six-months-from-april-26

 

 

Take note for those who are planning your vacations! Time to go Maldives then.

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Dunno how does it solve the problem. They can build a brand new sewage system and connect these buildings to it in 6 months? It's like punishing the operators with proper sanitation...

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Dunno how does it solve the problem. They can build a brand new sewage system and connect these buildings to it in 6 months? It's like punishing the operators with proper sanitation...

 

 

give time for the existing sewage in the nearby waters to disperse then start all over again [laugh]

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Local over there will struggle big time. No tourism to support the island economic. Feel for them.

 

Gov could have step in much earlier, and maybe redevelopment in phrases will be possible.

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Supersonic

Think there could b a deeper reason

 

Drugs? Terrorists?

 

i think so too. Philippines politics and the way things are done there, got to read beneath the surface one... 

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Some beach in Thailand is also being closed to tourist for a few months, IIRC.

 

Thankfully, I'm too broke to go for any vacation for the next 6 months, so, there's a bright side to having no money. [laugh][smash]

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