Manila Bay - jetzt weisser Sand wie auf Boracay

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Vizepräsidentin Leni Robredo hätte das Geld (349 Millionen Peso) lieber für Nahrungsmittel für die arme Bevölkerung ausgegeben.

“It’s insensitive that you’ll do it at the height of the pandemic when many people are hungry and suffering,” Robredo said.

Da kann man ihr nur zustimmen.

philstar - Manila Bay funds could have fed poor families – Robredo 

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Derweil beschweren sich Offizielle aus Cebu, weil es sich in Manila wohl nicht um weissen Sand handelt, sondern um zerkleinerte Dolomitsteine aus Cebu, die ohne zu fragen, bzw. ohne Genehmigung nach Manila gebracht worden sind.

“It feels like we were robbed because we didn’t know about this and there was no proper procedure,” said Cebu Provincial Board Member John Ismale Borgonia, chairman of the board’s Committee on Environment Conservation, which has been tasked to investigate the apparently unauthorized extraction of the minerals from the province.

Manila Bulletin - Cebu official feels like province was ‘robbed’ of resources to fill Manila Bay coastline