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Duterte slams Boracay as ‘cesspool,’ threatens to shut down island

Discussion in 'News from The Philippines' started by Stellar, Feb 11, 2018.

  1. graham59
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    OMG... I'm a sex tourist ! 603785.gif
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  2. bigmac
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    We have one notable member here who has never visited the Philippines, yet he is married to a Filipino,

    i think you mean filipina !

    that might be me. never been--never likely to. met my wife--who was here in the UK as a student --through Plenty of Fish. shs going back later this month for a holiday. i need the break--shes wearing me out.:lol:
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    Exactly! Very well put, Jim. :)

    What about young 18-30s who go to Ibiza, Corfu or any of the other cheap(ish) resorts and meet and pair-up with members of the opposite sex (or same sex even), are they also sex tourists?

    Amen.
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    what the hell are you talking about. A 50,000 peso salary per month in the Philippines is massive. It's more in relative terms, compared to what everyone around you is earning, than a 5,000 pound sterling a month salary is in the UK.

    Markham's attitude is just like the attitudes of some whites in South Africa, where I also incidentally, also used to work. He has this imperialist attitude, as if he was a UK imperialist, in Singapore in days gone by. He wants to consider himself 'superior' to the natives. He doesn't mind marrying one of them that's OK. But he nevertheless thinks they're a lower form of life. I would never be like that.
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    Yes I meant 'Filipina' but we don't always have to exclusively use the two terms to distinguish gender, if you marry a Brit there aren't two gender based expressions in English :D
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    Er, no! "Filipino" is the correct generic term for anyone with Philippine nationality. "Filipina" is a made-up word with no legal standing; it's not used on any official form or documentation and only very occasionally have I seen it used in newspapers.
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    i'm obliged
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  8. oss
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    She was pissed off at me when I was sending 100,000 a month 14 years ago and 80,000 a month 10 years ago, she's still pissed off at me when I send 50,000 a month now, LOL :D

    My earnings have dropped and the modern exchange rate crucifies me, try explaining that to her :D
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    for once I agree with Markham. Using the term Filipina all the time, is not good and if you notice I seldom use it. I will usually refer to a Filipino woman or to Filipino women. Filipina, is a bit like Mademoiselle or Signorina in French and Italian. Atlhough it may not refer to an unmarrried woman. In practice it means a young woman under the age of about 20 or 25 max. 25 is already quite an old age in the Philippines, and you are already in the over 50% of all people, regardless whether you are married.
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    Php 50k is not a huge amount though it's hardly a subsistence wage. I know personally Filipinos who earn just as much and some even more. I was earning at least twice that amount, but paid in Sterling, when I first moved to the Philippines, so your wage is nothing special.

    Which am I: white South African or Singapore Planter? Make-up your mind!!

    How dare you? You don't know me and would never recognise me in the street nor do you know anything about my wife who is not a timid, submissive lady at all. She'd be the first to punch out your lights as payback for some of the things you say about her country and her countryfolk.

    But that's exactly what you are like: you treat young women as playthings and sexually abuse them for your sole personal gratification.
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    www.hawaii.edu/cps/filipino.html
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    Is that when the exchange rate is factored in? :D
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    Anyway, my Mrs says I'm not old... I just LOOK old . :p
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    I wouldn't trust that source completely, the terms Pinoy and Pinay are also seen as derogatory by some, yes an obscure argument and these days they are both well accepted terms but there is a historic argument as to whether the Americans abused the term through usage.

    I first came across the discussion about these terms well over a decade ago and have therefore been careful to be respectful when speaking in the Philippines.
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    140-strong standby force deployed to Boracay
    The police team will help local law enforcers secure the island as the 6-month Boracay closure to tourists draws near


    AKLAN, Philippines – A contingent from the Police Regional Office in Western Visayas was deployed to Boracay Island on Friday, April 6, after President Rodrigo Duterte approved the closure of the world-famous tourist destination for 6 months.

    Chief Superintendent Carlito Feliciano, deputy regional director for administration, said the 140-strong standby force will support the Metro Boracay Task Force, Boracay police sub-station, and Second Aklan Mobile Force Company to secure the island.


    “Pinaghahandaan natin ang security ng Boracay with maximum tolerance sa mga protesta dahil sa closure (We are preparing to secure Boracay with maximum tolerance for protests due to the closure),” Feliciano said.

    The battalion of extra officers trained on civil disturbance management from Camp Martin Delgado in Iloilo City augmented Boracay Island security forces following reports of possible protest rallies after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shutdown of the prime tourist destination to tourists starting April 26.

    Close to 500 police officers and Task Force Boracay-Philippine Army are regularly conducting beach security and foot patrols in the beaches and jetty ports on Boracay Island and mainland Malay.

    On April 4, Senior Superintendent Jesus Cambay Jr, PRO6 deputy regional director for operations, held a capability demonstration conference on security issues and concerns in Balabag with the security forces in the island.

    Jose Roberto Nunez, regional director of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Western Visayas, also tackled the contingency plan on the Boracay closure with the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC), stakeholders, and other government agencies in Boracay Island on April 3.

    Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Roel Firmo, formerly assigned with Investigative and Detective Management division in Iloilo City Police Office, replaced Chief Inspector Mark Evan Salvo as chief of police of Malay, Aklan.

    https://www.rappler.com/nation/199723-boracay-closure-security-full-force
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    That video is depressing, I would not want to be there with those numbers of people :(

    I liked it when it looked like this.

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    This was 2005 and what I would call busy.

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    One more from that time.

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    That sadly is what success looks like :(

    When I first went there my friends told me that I had missed its true beauty already and that was in 2005, they had visited in the 1990's, yes it was more dangerous but it was also unspoiled.

    I know that you have seen all the change over the years Boots, you've been in the country a long time and your experience goes back way before any of the rest of us here, what do you think about the tourist influx and what its doing to the environment there?

    I know that I am being to quite some extent selfish in wanting to preserve the past :(

    (I'm not talking specifically about Boracay but more generally about the Philippines)

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