With the Duterte administration approval of the P25-billion Boracay Medium-Term Action Plan in a Cabinet meeting Monday night, Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon yesterday sought the creation of Boracay Development Authority.
Under Drilon’s proposed Senate Bill No. 17, the BDA will manage and develop Boracay Island.
“The approval of the Boracay Medium-Term Action Plan is a significant development in our desire to restore Boracay as the most beautiful island in Asia,” Drilon said.
He noted that the approval of the action plan all the more calls for the immediate creation of BDA, saying that it is important to have an agency that can take over the management, development, regulation, protection, and maintenance of the island, including its coastal and marine biodiversity.