They won’t cooperate,” Mr. Duterte said in his speech at the celebration of the 145th founding anniversary and the second Kanlungan ng Lahi festival of Tarlac province. Last month, Mr. Duterte likened the world-famous tourist destination to a “pit of human waste.”“You know in Boracay there are three basic issues [in which the] government must intervene. You were responsible for the damage all these years … I will arrest you all,” Mr. Duterte said. Business owners and local officials said there was no need to declare a state of calamity in Boracay. She said dealing with the violations of environmental and building laws could be done even without a calamity declaration since business owners were cooperating with government agencies in correcting the violations.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 08, 2018 22:52 UTC