Tag: MCAST
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Francine Farrugia’s fraud could have been avoided if standard public accounting procedures were applied
Details are coming out from the Court case regarding Francine Farrugia’s €2.3 million fraud from MCAST. Previously, we pointed out that Francine Farrugia couldn’t not have executed her fraud if proper auditing and accounting procedures were in place: this means that Francine Farrugia’s fraud was also caused by management disasters. We were in fact right,…
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Ex-Judge Antonio Mizzi appointed by the Minister Clifton Grima to “investigate” €2.3 million in stolen funds from MCAST
In order to publicly and shamelessly cover-up himself and his own trusted officials, the Education Minister Clifton Grima appointed the ex-Labour Judge Antonio Mizzi to supposedly investigate MCAST’s and the bureuacratic failings that led to a financial manager steal up to €2.3 million funds. Clearly, what should be pointed out in this case is that,…
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MCAST: a total failure in basic management
The case of Francine Farrugia is not just the result of a complex fraud that enabled her to siphon off up to €2.3 million from MCAST into her own pockets: it is also a systematic failure caused by a management crisis stemming from the very top of the Ministry of Education and extending to the…
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Off to Tibet and Tanzania with Francine Farrugia
News headlines are currently filled with stories about Francine Farrugia who is being charged in Court for embezzling up to €2.3 million from MCAST where she worked as a financial manager. Apart from buying properties, jewelry and luxury items, during the time she was defrauding the government, she also took a series of holidays some…
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Incredible efficiency by the FCID as a Nationalist Party Councilor is arraigned to Court over fraud
The Police Financial Crimes Investigations Department have shown incredible efficiency in arraigning Francine Farrugia to Court over fraud and money-laundering, after she embezzled up to €2.4 million from the MCAST accounts department where she worked to purchase properties, luxury items, jewelry and foreign trips. Surely, the motivating factor must have been that she is a…
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Agreement between MCAST and MUT published in full: download it here
As is always the case, the Malta Union of Teachers is refusing to fully publish the latest collective agreement it signed with the government. Even its members are not given a copy, as they are only allowed to review it on the union’s premises. Instead the union distributes a presentation. We are publishing the collective…
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Exclusive: details of MUT-MCAST Collective Agreement
Yesterday, the Malta Union of Teachers announced that up to 92.3% of its members voted in favour of the agreed MUT-MCAST Collective Agreement. The agreement came to a close after the MUT declared industrial action and the MCAST administration declared an industrial dispute last year. The agreement is backdated from January 2022 since the last…
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Head of Malta Union of Teachers announces deal with the government over MCAST Collective Agreement
The President of the Malta Union of Teachers Marco Bonnici announced that the union and the government reached a deal over the MCAST collective agreement. The head of MCAST had previously declared an industrial dispute with the MUT leading to the union to declare industrial action. Industrial action was eventually postponed to enter into talks…
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The Union of Professional Educators decry lack of progress in MCAST talks
The Union of Professional Educators have decried the lack of progress in talks between the Malta Union of Teachers and the government over new financial conditions of the collective agreement. The MUT previously suspended industrial action to resume talks with the government over a new collective agreement, assuring MCAST lecturers that it would promptly announce…
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Lecturers lament lack of updates by the MUT about negotiations with the government
Members of the Malta Union of Teachers are protesting that they have not yet been updated about the ongoing negotiations between the union and the government regarding the MCAST collective agreement. Last month, the MUT announced that it was suspending industrial action for the month of February pending negotiations. However, despite the month coming to…
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MCAST Principal slaps MCAST lecturers with new working guidelines after lifting industrial action
MCAST Principal Stephen Vella has imposed new working guidelines on MCAST lecturers, potentially increasing their already heavy workload, just as the Malta Union of Teachers announced the lifting of industrial action to begin negotiations over salary increases. The industrial dispute was originally also provoked by the MCAST Principal who had told the MUT to take…
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MUT suspends industrial action but teachers still demand commitments for salary increases
Following the meeting by the Malta Union of Teachers with its delegates yesterday, the union has agreed to suspend industrial action at MCAST in order to proceed with discussions over salary increases. One of the conditions by the government to the union to discuss salary increases was the lifting of industrial action. However, now that…
