Rodrigo Duterte shuts Boracay,the country’s best-known holiday island, which gets two million tourist visits each yearThe Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a “cesspool” tainted by dumped sewage.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shutdown to start on 26 April, or his spokesman Harry Roque said on Twitter,without providing further detail.
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Source: guardian.co.uk