GUEST POST: Keith’s KASCO

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2019-09-06T10:05:45+02:00Fri, 6th Sep '19, 10:05|

This article is a follow up to this website's reporting in June 2018 regarding the notes to the financial statements of Kasco Holdings for the financial year ended 31 December 2016. Those accounts revealed a short-term loan of €2.6 million given during 2016 by the Group to a third party, which loan was unsecured and [...]

GUEST POST: Factionalism in Political Parties

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2019-09-06T09:36:04+02:00Fri, 6th Sep '19, 09:36|

  Preamble The Partit Nazzjonalista is currently committed and is encouraging all interested to be part of and contribute towards the drafting of a party reform in the light of long-term perspectives. What led to this present explorative piece is two recent statements put forward by an eminent scholar and well-read thinker and another by [...]

16 September: Vigil for Truth and Justice

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2019-09-17T08:53:32+02:00Fri, 6th Sep '19, 09:23|

  "The fight against corruption and the decimation of the rule of law must continue.” -- Daphne Caruana Galizia (2017) A vigil calling for truth and justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia is being held on 16 September at the Great Siege Square in Valletta at 7.30pm. Please join us.  

Patience

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2019-09-04T09:46:07+02:00Wed, 4th Sep '19, 09:46|

I feel I must apologise for being away from the blog for so long. There was a bit of that which was a break for holidays in the middle of August. But the present hiatus is for work. I hope you’ll agree it was worth the pause when it is done. So please bear with [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Running down the clock

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2019-09-01T15:18:29+02:00Sun, 1st Sep '19, 15:18|

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "There is a pattern here of running down the clock on manifestly transparent breaches of legal principles, buying time and postponing the inevitable. "The government does this because we have grown to accept anything that is thrown at us, however outrageous. We know we’re frogs in a [...]

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