Hope to pass Boracay Bill dims

Aklan Congressman Florencio Miraflores admits of losing hope for the passage of his controversial Boracay bill before he steps down in his last term as representative of the lone district.
Miraflores said that there's only a week left before Congress will close in time for the forthcoming midterm elections.
"Although it has already been approved in Congress, by then some members of the senate still do not agree of passing the bill into a law this present time," Miraflores said.
The House Bill 1109 known as "Establishing a Mechanism for the Sustainable Management and Use of the Island of Boracay" was yet passed in 2008.
"The said bill hopes to correct the flaw in the state ownership of Boracay. It is considered a road map to Boracay development by legitimizing land ownership and giving the landowners free patents to those alienable and disposable lands (in Boracay)," Miraflores said.
He added that the Boracay bill could have solved some of the environmental problems now currently faced by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
"I just hope that it would still be passed and will finally become a law by the next Congress," he added.