Pagcor urged to cancel Boracay casino licences

An agency from the Philippines has requested that the state-owned corporation pull the licences from all casinos on the island.

Philippines,- The Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force (BIATF) has asked the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) to cancel all casino licences from the Boracay island. The letter comes after the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, revealed that no casinos will be allowed in the territory.

“In view of the pronouncement of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte that no casino shall be allowed in Boracay Island, and in the light of the mandate given to it through Executive Order [EO] No. 5, Series of  2018, the [BIATF] requests that any and all gaming franchise/s and/or provisional licence/s in Boracay Island shall be cancelled by your good office,” the letter reads. The official document directed to Pagcor Chairwoman Andrea D. Domingo also included casinos that operated there before the closure of the island on April 26.

If Pagcor denied to grant the request made by the BIATF, planned casinos such as the one from Galaxy Entertainment Group will be affected by the measure and will not be able to operate on the island.