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So far Godfrey Leone Ganado has created 49 blog entries.

GUEST POST: On your electricity bill

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2020-04-05T09:51:05+02:00Sun, 5th Apr '20, 09:51|

Jacob Borg of the Times of Malta recently asked Minister of Finance Edward Scicluna, whether recent calls for a cut in electricity tariffs were possible with the fixed-term contract signed with Electrogas. The minister responded: “Enemalta is not just the government’s company, as you also have the Chinese now. It is not ours to say, [...]

GUEST POST: Bankrupt hospitals

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2020-04-02T10:10:13+02:00Thu, 2nd Apr '20, 10:10|

The following is an analysis by auditor Godfrey Leone Ganado of the last available audited accounts of Steward Malta Limited that operates the concession running St Luke's, Karin Grech and Gozo General Hospital. These accounts refer to the year ending 31 December 2017. At 31 December 2017, the company was still operating under the name [...]

GUEST POST: Comparing 2018 accounts for PL and PN

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2020-02-12T21:09:05+01:00Wed, 12th Feb '20, 19:44|

  The comparative analysis is based on the accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission in accordance with the Financing of the Political Parties Act, and the guidelines issued by the Electoral Commission. I do not intend to comment on every line item, but only on the most material ones. INCOME Comments During 2018, the PN [...]

GUEST POST: The MFSA’s annual report

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2019-09-20T11:02:08+02:00Fri, 20th Sep '19, 11:02|

The following is Godfrey Leone Ganado's review of the 2018 annual report of the Malta Financial Services Authority. The report can be downloaded here: MFSA-Annual-Report-2018 Chairman’s Foreward – page 7 In paragraph 2, the Chairman states ‘the Maltese financial services sector continues to be one of the fastest-growing in Europe. It also represents one of [...]

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: Comparing PL and PN accounts (2)

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2019-08-07T09:40:34+02:00Thu, 8th Aug '19, 09:35|

Continues from yesterday's piece by Godfrey Leone Ganado who looks at the financial statements filed by the Labour and Nationalist parties under electoral law … and pokes his fingers in the many holes. The comparative analysis is based on the accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission in accordance with the Financing of the Political Parties [...]

GUEST POST: Comparing PL and PN accounts (1)

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2019-08-07T10:57:57+02:00Wed, 7th Aug '19, 09:35|

Godfrey Leone Ganado looks at the financial statements filed by the Labour and Nationalist parties under electoral law ... and pokes his fingers in the many holes. The comparative analysis is based on the accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission in accordance with the Financing of the Political Parties Act, and the guidelines issued by [...]

GUEST SERIES: Owen Bonnici’s oath (2)

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2019-07-31T10:49:07+02:00Thu, 1st Aug '19, 10:43|

The first part of this series is here. 2. Dr Vincent Galea – Jigifieri din l-inkjesta allura jekk joghbok li waslet ghandek minghand Dr Pawlu Lia, qatt iddiskutejtha mal-Avukat Generali inti? Dr Owen Bonnici – Le jien ma ddiskutejtx l-inkjesta mal-Avukat Generali. Li tkellimt mieghu dwar l-issue tal-pubblikazzjoni ghaliex l-Avukat Generali infurmani immedjatament li huwa [...]

GUEST SERIES: Owen Bonnici’s oath (1)

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2019-07-31T10:44:55+02:00Wed, 31st Jul '19, 10:44|

This series by Godfrey Leone Ganado continues from the earlier series 'Joseph Muscat's oath' and looks into what Owen Bonnici testified in the proceedings brought by Leader of Opposition Adrian Delia against the Attorney General for not giving him a copy of the full report of the Egrant inquiry. As he had done with the [...]

GUEST SERIES: Joseph Muscat’s oath (3)

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2019-07-20T09:00:47+02:00Mon, 22nd Jul '19, 08:54|

Concludes the first part of this series on testimonies given by Joseph Muscat and Owen Bonnici in the case filed by Adrian Delia demanding a copy of the Egrant inquiry report. In this concluding section, Godfrey Leone Ganado takes another look at the published extract of the inquiry report and compares them with the statement [...]

GUEST SERIES: Joseph Muscat’s oath (2)

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2019-07-20T08:56:04+02:00Sun, 21st Jul '19, 08:45|

Continues from yesterday's first post in this series where Godfrey Leone Ganado is analysing extracts from the official transcript of the testimonies of Joseph Muscat and Owen Bonnici in the case filed by Adrian Delia requesting a copy of the Egrant report. The extracts are reproduced in the original Maltese and typing errors have not been corrected. [...]

GUEST SERIES: Joseph Muscat’s oath (1)

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2019-07-20T08:48:00+02:00Sat, 20th Jul '19, 08:47|

Godfrey Leone Ganado has prepared a series analysing the transcripts of Joseph Muscat's and Owen Bonnici's testimonies in court in the case filed by Adrian Delia asking he's given a copy of the Egrant inquiry report. The following is the first part. This series will carry extracts from the transcripts of the testimony given by [...]

GUEST POST: On Air Malta’s financial statements

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2019-04-25T18:52:15+02:00Wed, 24th Apr '19, 20:12|

This article reviews Air Malta’s statement of yesterday about their financial statements for 2018. You can read Malta Today's report of that statement here. Sale of landing rights to an associate company – Air Malta insisted that its strategy to transfer the airline’s landing rights to a government company is to give the State sole [...]

G Leone Ganado: The strange Gasol transfer (3)

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2018-11-23T12:47:06+01:00Fri, 23rd Nov '18, 12:47|

Post number 3 in Godfrey Leone Ganado's series on the background to the 17 Black scandal. This post is a brief follow-up to article 2, and it is based on a comment made to article 2 in Truth Be Told: “interesting article from Malta. So what happened to the Malta exist cash? Surely some of [...]

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