Pertinent comment of the day
Posted by It-Tezi ta’ Mario:
Nair is on the same World Bank debarment list as the Chinese Company that is doing Muscat a favour – his assessment, not mine – by running a feasibility study for a bridge between Malta and Gozo.
Muscat had said that investigating China Communications Construction Company wasn’t necessary, and that the blacklisting doesn’t matter, because the company’s ultimate owner is China. The claim is incorrect, and not only because it is illogical.
What are the odds that Nair was the one who had introduced the company to Muscat? At least one of his friends at two of his companies are on the same list. Pradeep Menon is permanently debarred. So are two of Nair’s companies – Amani B. P. Limited, later renamed Lonestar Supplies and Logistics (PVT) Limited, and Consultants for International Development.
If Muscat had ever bothered to look at that World Bank list, or had someone do it for him, they might have noticed that Nair was there too.
Maybe he did, and thought he’d get away with it.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/immigrants-buy-visas-in-latvia-as-europe-locks-out-the-poor-a-926543.html
A well written article…..some food for thought on Lejber’s plans to sell Maltese passports.
[Daphne – Of course it’s a well written article. It’s in Der Spiegel, for God’s sake. It goes without saying. If you mean you like the content, then say that. Sorry to sound harsh, but honestly.]
I hate it when the Maltese leave a tip just because they don’t get food poisoning.
I like the content and Baxxter’s comment :)
Systematic tipping just encourages mediocrity in Maltese restaurants.
It spills over to other stuff too. Like government. Like rejoicing in exultation just because this time round, Labour isn’t going round blowing people up or putting their chopped corpses down wells.
yet….
Whatever happened to the feasibility study commissioned by the previous government in connection with the Malta-Gozo tunnel?
Seems like he applied for a judge on WardaKanta and his CV got mislaid in the wrong tray.
Well the EU should introduce legislation with regards to Schengen. These passports would not be so attractive without Schengen. The EU may not be able to regulate the issuing of national passports but it can certainly determine the applicability of Schengen. Difficult I know but the bureaucrats in Brussels are certainly paid enough to put their thinking hats on and attempt to curb this abuse.
And, as we’re going in that direction, the ECB will have also sat up.