Detained opposition Senator Leila de Lima called on her colleagues at the Senate on Monday to launch an investigation into alleged land grabbing activities purportedly by commercial developers in Boracay Island, which has been undergoing rehabilitation in the past months. De Lima filed Senate Resolution No. 902, urging the Senate to make sure rehabilitation efforts would not disregard the rights of Boracay’s Indigenous Peoples (IPs) to their ancestral land. ADVERTISEMENT“There is need to establish the official policy and plan of action of the government over the determination of the rights of the indigenous peoples over the property in Boracay that they claim as part of their ancestral land,” she noted. Mr. Duterte later placed Boracay under land reform to address decades-old land ownership issues faced by residents, property owners, claimants, and investors.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 01, 2018 08:03 UTC