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We are at war against bureaucracy
– Edwin Vassallo
- reiterates he will reconsider his position if he doesn’t
deliver
By
Kurt Sansone
There is no mistaking the tone of Edwin Vassallo’s voice.
He is an angry parliamentary secretary wanting to streamline bureaucracy
for small businesses but he faces a mentality problem that gives
little priority to efficiency. READ
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Protection logic - GRTU and Chamber
defend pharmacy threshold
By
Matthew Vella
The champions of the free market are up in arms following
the proposed lowering of thresholds in the distribution of pharmacies
per number of inhabitants, proposed to be lowered from 3,000 inhabitants
per pharmacy to 1,600. .READ
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Government
enterprises chairmanships reshuffled
By
David Lindsay
Government yesterday announced sweeping changes to the chairmanships
of a handful of its corporations, apparently spurred by the decision
taken by Joseph F.X. Zahra to resign from his chairmanship of
national telecoms carrier Maltacom so as to retain his much longer
standing chairmanship of Bank of Valletta. READ
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INTERVIEW
An unfaltering entrepreneurial
spirit
Times may change, business may change –
but the one constant in the world of business is the spirit
of the entrepreneur. Here Angelo Xuereb speaks to DAVID
LINDSAY about a number of projects past, present and future
and gives his views on a range of subjects from the construction
and tourism industries to the hurdles the entrepreneurial
spirit is continuously facing
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OPINION
Turning disadvantages of
old into competitive platforms
MP Michael Frendo, Head of the Maltese delegation
attending the recent World Summit on Information Society in
Geneva, addresses the Summit and outlines Malta’s Information
and Communication Technology strategy. Following are extracts
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NEWS
Malta not in firing line of Germany’s
proposed EU budget cap
GWU Drydocks secretary resigns
Malta Institute of Taxation reacts
to Budget 2004
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