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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

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

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

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. businessmirror.com.ph/2026/01/15/bir…₱3-105t-in-2025-lower-than-₱3-23-t-goal/

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 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.

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!

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

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.

$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

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. zurl.co/2IZHs

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.

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.

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

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

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

Call it greed for profit

Happy New Year Kiribati!

Team Philippines places sixth overall at SEA Games 2025 s.inqnews.net/ike97bh

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: inqnews.net/SEAGames2025Me…