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                    [Title] => Congress urged to review indigenous peoples’ rights law
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Congress should review the constitutionality of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (IPRA), which is reportedly hampering the development of an island in Coron as an international resort destination, a tourism investor said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 375282 [Title] => Boracay back to normal [Summary] => Despite being hit by super typhoon "Seniang," it’s business as usual at Boracay island in Aklan and the world-renowned tropical beach resort still has electricity.

Orlando Sacay, Boracay Foundation Inc. chairman clarified newspaper reports that the island remains powerless.

Most resort owners, particularly the huge ones, have generator sets, he added.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 373946 [Title] => Boracay resort owners vow to press charges vs public exec over demolition [Summary] => Three resort owners on world-famous Boracay Island vowed yesterday to press charges against a group of people who demolished their fences without any court order and in violation of a status quo order issued by a lower court.

The Kalibo, Aklan regional trial court issued the status quo order in connection with a plan by Mayor Ceciron Cawaling of Malay town — where Boracay island is located — to demolish alleged encroachments along the main road. The purpose of the demolition is to widen the road by 1.5 meters in order to accommodate a drainage system.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361131 [Title] => ‘Business as usual in Boracay’ [Summary] => Worried by tourist misconceptions over the ongoing land dispute, resort owners on the world-famous Boracay island in Aklan clarified it’s "business as usual" at the world-famous island.

"We in the island are very much worried about this incorrect perception. We assure everyone that everything is normal here," said Nenette Aguirre-Graf, president of Boracay Foundation Inc. (BFI).
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360684 [Title] => Boracay land issue: Defensor blinks [Summary] => Malacañang will now allow Boracay residents and resort owners to apply for judicial titles for their lands, in lieu of the public bidding under Presidential Proclamation 1064 that would eject them out of their investments.

The announcement was made by presidential chief of staff Mike Defensor following the advice of opposition leader Sorsogon Rep. Francis Escudero, who expressed his concern over the local residents and resort owners’ losing their properties under PP 1064.
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The announcement was made by presidential chief of staff Mike Defensor following the advice of opposition leader Sorsogon Rep. Francis Escudero, who expressed his concern over the local residents and resort owners’ losing their properties under PP 1064.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360218 [Title] => Boracay classification stays — Palace [Summary] => Malacañang has no intention of taking back the proclamation classifying more than half of the world-famous island resort of Boracay in Aklan as a public agricultural land open for public auction, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita asserted yesterday.

Ermita stressed Proclamation 1064 would put things in order and even work to the advantage of residents and resort owners in Boracay.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359017 [Title] => Boracay resort owners warn of economic backlash [Summary] => Boracay resort owners warned yesterday of the possible economic backlash once the government implements Proclamation 1064 reclassifying the world class island resort into a forest and agricultural land.

Orlando Sacay, chairman of the Boracay Foundation Inc., said potential investors would shy away from further developing Boracay if the government persists on the reclassification.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279512 [Title] => World-class resort hotel project in Boracay may be deferred due to DENR ruling [Summary] => HSAI-Raintree International, a major foreign property development and management group, may put off plans to build a world-class resort hotel in Boracay due to the uncertainty over the government’s statement declaring portions of the island as alienable and disposable (A&D).

Annabel Wisniewski, president and chief executive officer of HSAI-Raintree, said her company and other private groups with plans to put up establishments in Boracay are extremely disappointed about the plan of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 106972 [Title] => ‘Barge plan may ruin Boracay’ [Summary] => Residents and hotel operators of resort island Boracay are protesting the move to transfer the Metro Manila garbage dumpsite to Semirara island in Antique, citing its disastrous effects on the island’s tourism industry.

"If it pushes through, this will be worse than the coliform issue which paralyzed the operations of Boracay barely three years ago," Waling Waling Beach Hotel owner Orlando Sacay said.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Congress urged to review indigenous peoples’ rights law
                    [Summary] => 

Congress should review the constitutionality of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (IPRA), which is reportedly hampering the development of an island in Coron as an international resort destination, a tourism investor said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 375282 [Title] => Boracay back to normal [Summary] => Despite being hit by super typhoon "Seniang," it’s business as usual at Boracay island in Aklan and the world-renowned tropical beach resort still has electricity.

Orlando Sacay, Boracay Foundation Inc. chairman clarified newspaper reports that the island remains powerless.

Most resort owners, particularly the huge ones, have generator sets, he added.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 373946 [Title] => Boracay resort owners vow to press charges vs public exec over demolition [Summary] => Three resort owners on world-famous Boracay Island vowed yesterday to press charges against a group of people who demolished their fences without any court order and in violation of a status quo order issued by a lower court.

The Kalibo, Aklan regional trial court issued the status quo order in connection with a plan by Mayor Ceciron Cawaling of Malay town — where Boracay island is located — to demolish alleged encroachments along the main road. The purpose of the demolition is to widen the road by 1.5 meters in order to accommodate a drainage system.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361131 [Title] => ‘Business as usual in Boracay’ [Summary] => Worried by tourist misconceptions over the ongoing land dispute, resort owners on the world-famous Boracay island in Aklan clarified it’s "business as usual" at the world-famous island.

"We in the island are very much worried about this incorrect perception. We assure everyone that everything is normal here," said Nenette Aguirre-Graf, president of Boracay Foundation Inc. (BFI).
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360684 [Title] => Boracay land issue: Defensor blinks [Summary] => Malacañang will now allow Boracay residents and resort owners to apply for judicial titles for their lands, in lieu of the public bidding under Presidential Proclamation 1064 that would eject them out of their investments.

The announcement was made by presidential chief of staff Mike Defensor following the advice of opposition leader Sorsogon Rep. Francis Escudero, who expressed his concern over the local residents and resort owners’ losing their properties under PP 1064.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360828 [Title] => Boracay land issue: Defensor blinks [Summary] => Malacañang will now allow Boracay residents and resort owners to apply for judicial titles for their lands, in lieu of the public bidding under Presidential Proclamation 1064 that would eject them out of their investments.

The announcement was made by presidential chief of staff Mike Defensor following the advice of opposition leader Sorsogon Rep. Francis Escudero, who expressed his concern over the local residents and resort owners’ losing their properties under PP 1064.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360218 [Title] => Boracay classification stays — Palace [Summary] => Malacañang has no intention of taking back the proclamation classifying more than half of the world-famous island resort of Boracay in Aklan as a public agricultural land open for public auction, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita asserted yesterday.

Ermita stressed Proclamation 1064 would put things in order and even work to the advantage of residents and resort owners in Boracay.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359017 [Title] => Boracay resort owners warn of economic backlash [Summary] => Boracay resort owners warned yesterday of the possible economic backlash once the government implements Proclamation 1064 reclassifying the world class island resort into a forest and agricultural land.

Orlando Sacay, chairman of the Boracay Foundation Inc., said potential investors would shy away from further developing Boracay if the government persists on the reclassification.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279512 [Title] => World-class resort hotel project in Boracay may be deferred due to DENR ruling [Summary] => HSAI-Raintree International, a major foreign property development and management group, may put off plans to build a world-class resort hotel in Boracay due to the uncertainty over the government’s statement declaring portions of the island as alienable and disposable (A&D).

Annabel Wisniewski, president and chief executive officer of HSAI-Raintree, said her company and other private groups with plans to put up establishments in Boracay are extremely disappointed about the plan of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 106972 [Title] => ‘Barge plan may ruin Boracay’ [Summary] => Residents and hotel operators of resort island Boracay are protesting the move to transfer the Metro Manila garbage dumpsite to Semirara island in Antique, citing its disastrous effects on the island’s tourism industry.

"If it pushes through, this will be worse than the coliform issue which paralyzed the operations of Boracay barely three years ago," Waling Waling Beach Hotel owner Orlando Sacay said.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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