Catholics will mark the start of Lent on February 18 with Ash Wednesday, beginning 40 days of prayer, fasting, and reflection in preparation for Easter.
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) raised P3.105 trillion in 2025, lower than its full-year target, in a year that ended with it pausing audit operations amid an uproar about harassment of businesses.
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This is timely and urgent. Government investment in the right direction if spent wisely down to the last centavo. Dahican Beach, one of the Philippines beautiful beach destinations, needs it badly for air access.
SEN. Bong Go welcomed the P700 million allocation on Tuesday, Jan. 13, for the Mati Airport project in Mati City, Davao Oriental, under the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) 2026 national budget, calling it a major boost to regional connectivity,... https://t.co/lCSYYA6RWK
The K-12 intent to produce job-ready grads has failed to achieve its purpose in many ways because K-12 instructors should have earned at least the minimum experience working in the private sector and in industry they intended to teach.
When the K to 12 education system was introduced, one of its strongest promises was simple yet transformative: senior high school graduates would be job-ready. Years later, that promise has been widely questioned, even by President Marcos Jr. himself. But recent commitments from key education agencies suggest that government is finally confronting the gaps—and taking concrete steps to ensure that K to 12 delivers a workforce prepared for real, available jobs.
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Dapat itigil na kasi yang mga unprogrammed appropriations total meron naman national expenditure programme eh di ilagay doon kung kinakailangan talaga. There sould be sanity in our national budget. Fiscal discipline is the only way to go forward!
A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court (SC) seeking to declare as unconstitutional the unprogrammed appropriations in Republic Act 12314 or the 2026 General Appropriations Act amounting to P243.4 billion.
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- Discovery World Corporation and Discovery Hospitality Corporation held a groundbreaking ceremony for Kip&Kin Siargao, a new hospitality concept in Siargao, Philippines, on January 10, 2025.
- Kip&Kin Siargao’s anticipated opening is in 2027.
- The hospitality group also plans to open another Kip&Kin in Vanilla Beach El Nido and San Vicente, Palawan.
$DWC (+0.83%): Discovery World Corporation is investing an additional P762.2 million to expand its resorts and township properties in Palawan, Davao, and Siargao, including new hotel developments, staff housing, and fresh capital for its subsidiaries.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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LISTED hotel and resort developer Boulevard Holdings, Inc.’s (BHI) consolidated sales rose 16.9% in December, driven by the strong performance of its luxury resort in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro.
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The cookie jar must be full enough for them to get a share of the loot. Because we can only afford 3/4 to fill, increasing the budget to fill it results in more borrowings. Thus, increasing our national debt burden.
BUSINESS GROUPS said the government has not gone far enough in curbing unprogrammed appropriations in the newly signed 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA), warning that these could undermine fiscal discipline and governance. https://t.co/ebndkobjpz
We can't achieve fiscal discipline without undoing corruption in the government. The insatiable appetite of our public offcials to get more cookies from the jar is what leads us to increase the national budget from the level we could only afford through taxes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington on Tuesday marked five years since a mob overran the US Capitol, with rioters pardoned by Donald Trump retracing their steps even as Democrats revive hearings to hold the president accountable.
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'A FAMILY OF FOUR WOULD NEED AT LEAST ₱1,500 JUST TO ENTER THE THEATER'
Jun Robles Lana, director of the 2025 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) entry “Call Me Mother,” lamented how the expensive movie tickets made the public turn away from watching movies, noting how a family of four needs “at least ₱1,500” to enter the cinema.
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Filipino boxer Eumir Marcial clinches a gold medal in the men's boxing-80kg at the 2025 Southeast Asian Games.
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