18 JULY 2001
Editorial
The duck and the golden egg
Interview
A
seamless financial service
Barclays is perhaps the most renowned name in banking among the Maltese
and, following a long absence, it re-established its banking services
on the Islands just two years ago.
More recently,
Barclays set up an International Investments facility through which
it now sells its own funds. David Lindsay
speaks to Barclays Malta Group Representative and General Manager, Richard
Wallace, on its new investment arm and how it has provided
its Maltese clients with a seamless service.
Focus
Price Club quo vadis?
Both Leo Brincat and Vince Farrugia tend to agree that Government need
not intervene in the Price Club issue and they also give their views
on a foreign take-over.
Opinion
Safer
shipping and clean seas
Transport
and telecommunications minister Censu Galea argues that safer shipping
and cleaner seas is a “culture” he was speaking at a convention
held in Malta on Mediterranean Memorandum on port static control at the
Radisson
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Yesterday
at the National Audit’s
Office 4th anniversary conference. In the opening speech,
Finance minister John Dalli praised the Office as a strong state
audit institution perfectly capable of handling both its current
and future challenges.
Photo
Pippa Zammit Cutajar
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More then 1,500kg of VAT receipts
in lottery bid
No one at the Lotto Department bothers to count the large number of
VAT receipts participating in the regular monthly lottery, but the Director
of Public Lotto, Alfred Muscat revealed that the total weight of the
receipts has reached an access of 1,500kg a month. But inside sources
said this equalled 7 million receipts a month
Pork industry still finding its feet
Consumers, retailers, producers and food processors are still struggling
to cope with a pork industry that has been left in disarray following
a huge increase in demand triggered by the BSE crisis earlier in the
year
MLP exponents give conflicting views
on Price Club redundancies
The Price Club redundancies have sent the Labour Party reeling in two
opposite directions with finance spokesperson Leo Brincat cautioning
against government intervention while Karl Chricop, Marie Louise Coleiro
and Chris Agius chiding government for staying out of the issue
Stanley Leisure to return to UK
following abolition of betting tax
Less than a year since Stanley Leisure set up its Internet betting arm
in tax-friendly Malta, the company has announced that it will be repatriating
its Malta operations back to the UK by the end of the year
Seminar and workshop on assessment,
examination and certification of seafarers
Different methods and procedures for the assessment, examination and
certification of seafarers will be discussed during a five day seminar
and workshop which is being organized by the International Maritime
Organisation in collaboration with the Malta Maritime Authority. The
event, the sixth in a series of regional seminars organized worldwide
is being held at the Radisson SAS Bay Point Resort and was inaugurated
by the Hon. Censu Galea, Minister for Transport and Communications
Crown Works/Horn Works Action Plan
approved
The Planning Authority has approved an action plan for the Crown Works
and Horn Works area in Blata l-Bajda. The Plan includes two major proposals:
A park and ride scheme for Valletta and Floriana and a Carnival Centre.
The Plan has been presented to Government for its approval.
Trade license procedure revamped
A new draft law states that trade licences will no longer be issued
by police stations but rather from the relevant authority or department
responsible for the commercial activity in question.
Dalli applauds NAO, stresses that
further changes must be made
Speaking at the fourth anniversary of the National Audit Office yesterday,
Finance Minister John Dalli applauded the fact that the NAO is undergoing
the necessary changes needed for a modern state audit institution
Safer shipping and clean seas
Transport and telecommunications minister Censu Galea argues that safer
shipping and cleaner seas is a “culture” he was speaking at
a convention held in Malta on Mediterranean Memorandum on port static
control at the Radisson
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