Marlet Badeo

...into hospitality industry.

[Manila Bulletin News @manilabulletin]

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.

Here are the important days to observe during this sacred season. #Lent2026

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

Yon lang masaklap. Pagkatapos mangutang, ibulsa ngayon bayad utang na! Saklap!

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

Debt service eats up biggest slice of budget pie https://t.co/f5lIMR5bec

[Ashley Jose @aeojose]

@bworldph Inside PAL’s A350-1000. @bworldph

[BusinessMirror @BusinessMirror]

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.

https://t.co/Fb13ZmQsU6₱3-105t-in-2025-lower-than-₱3-23-t-goal/

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

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.

[The Manila Times @TheManilaTimes]

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

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

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.

[Manila Bulletin News @manilabulletin]

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.
#MBOpinions

READ: https://t.co/tozrda89K4

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

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!

[BusinessMirror @BusinessMirror]

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.

https://t.co/FqkcK9FEOr

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

America is cost-cutting. International organizations going bankrupt. Work desks folding soon. Directors will be packing bags.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. will withdraw from 66 organizations, isolating the country from the wider world, the White House announced today.

[OutSmarting Markets @itradeph]

DWC 1.15

- 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.

[FirstMetroSec @firstmetrosec]

$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

3/5

[BusinessWorld @bworldph]

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.
https://t.co/r79qKnJ6r4

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

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.

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

Curbing corruption is just a part of what ails this country. The other is fiscal discipline. Problem is, it takes these two to tango.

[BusinessWorld @bworldph]

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

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

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.

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

The voting result in the U.S. tells you that the country is split right in the middle.

[The Manila Times @TheManilaTimes]

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.

READ: https://t.co/DMLxhGTr7i

[Robi Domingo @robertmarion]

Two years married… and now our greatest blessing is on the way. Happy 2nd anniversary! We’re ready to give you all our love ❤️

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

Call it greed for profit

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

'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.

READ MORE: https://t.co/KToIz7GRiv

[Marlet Badeo @marletbadeo]

Happy New Year Kiribati!

[INQUIRER Sports @inquirersports]

Team Philippines places sixth overall at SEA Games 2025 https://t.co/USe6nRcj66

[INQUIRER Sports @inquirersports]

Filipino boxer Eumir Marcial clinches a gold medal in the men's boxing-80kg at the 2025 Southeast Asian Games.

•⁠ Follow our SEA Games 2025 Medal Tally here: https://t.co/Wf98EMlJTk