A couple enjoys a view of White Beach amid the coranavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Boracay Island, Aklan province, Philippines, November 29, 2021. Picture taken November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
FOR 23-year-old Samuel Garilao, the beaches on the popular island of Boracay have never been cleaner and the water never clearer.
Garilao is used to seeing the tiny but over-developed island crowded with tourists, and struggling with a waste problem so bad that President Rodrigo Duterte closed it in 2018, calling it a “sewer pool”.
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