ILOILO CITY—Thousands of residents and workers on Boracay Island have scrambled to get barangay identification cards, just a little over two weeks before the six-month closure takes effect on April 26. They are afraid they won’t be allowed to stay on the island,” said Rowen Aguirre, municipal executive assistant for Boracay affairs. The closure will affect at least 73,522 residents including 17,328 registered employees and 9,365 unregistered workers. The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) would monitor the enforcement of the closure of Boracay Island to ensure that the rights of residents and those going to the island are protected. Aguirre said residents and workers who would be unemployed during the closure had started leaving the island and returning to their hometowns and provinces.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 10, 2018 07:52 UTC