People cancelling donations due to top ups row
Fundraising Ireland, an umbrella organisation for professional fundraisers including a number of well-known Irish charities, said its members’ were reporting people cancelling their charitable...
View ArticleFunds down after revelations of top-up payments to CRC executives
Charities have reported a drop in donations which they have attributed to revelations that money raised through fundraising were used to top up payments to executives in the Central Remedial Clinic...
View ArticleHSE to investigate if charity money was used to top up salary at Central...
The Health Service Executive has been asked to investigate whether funding from a charitable organisation linked to the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) was used to fund unauthorised payments to senior...
View ArticleCharity donations not for ‘lavish salaries’ - Burton
Charitable donations should not be used to fund “lavish salaries”, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said. Speaking at the Labour Party National Conference in Killarney tonight, Ms Burton...
View ArticlePeople cancelling charitable donations due to top ups row
Fundraising Ireland, an umbrella organisation for professional fundraisers including a number of well-known Irish charities, said its members’ were reporting people cancelling their charitable...
View ArticleCharity donations should not be used for ‘lavish salaries’ - Burton
Charitable donations should not be used to fund “lavish salaries”, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said. Speaking at the Labour Party National Conference in Killarney tonight, Ms Burton...
View ArticleUsing charitable donations to fund salaries
Sir, – Organisations who sought charitable donations and then used these to “top up” the salaries of...
View ArticleBitcoin campaign donations have regulators scratching heads
WASHINGTON — On the website for Jim Fulner's U.S. Senate campaign, 34 letters and numbers appear in a string above the "Donate Now!" button. They are the code for his campaign's bitcoin wallet, where...
View ArticleEnder's Game
THE future must be won. With the overwhelming enormity, magnitude and severity of schemes, scams and scandals, it would appear that victory against greed, graft and corruption would be an unlikely...
View ArticleIndian cyclone weakens, authorities say no threat
Reuters November 28, 2013 - 13:38 By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A severe cyclone weakened before it made landfall on India's est coast on Thursday, and an...
View ArticleIs this a just system or daylight robbery?
Outa’s Wayne Duvenhage and Sanral Chief Executive Nazir Allie have opposing views on Gauteng’s controversial e-tolls. Place yourself in the shoes of people who have to use Gauteng’s freeways, writes...
View ArticleCanadian small/micro-cap roundup
Stock movers for the week of November 25, 2013: On Monday, Africa Hydrocarbons Inc. (TSX: V.NFK, Stock Forum) was up 55.6% to 14 cents. The stock is reacting to news of the oil and gas junior’s well...
View ArticleBolshoi Ballet Dancer Could Face Nine Years In Prison For Orchestrating Acid...
MOSCOW (AP) — A verdict in the case of the Bolshoi dancer accused of masterminding an acid attack on the ballet's director will be announced Dec. 3, Russian news agencies reported. The lawyers of...
View ArticleNo gold bars but higher salaries for London bankers with bonus cap
By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - In the 1990s, London-based investment banks rewarded top employees with gold bars, fine wine and oriental carpets to dent the impact of higher payroll taxes. Now,...
View ArticleDear Jeremy – your work issues solved
Problems at work? Need advice? Our agony uncle – and readers – have the answer • Need help? Email Jeremy at dear.jeremy@theguardian.com outlining your dilemma 'Tricked' into job interviews earmarked...
View ArticleInside the race to rescue HealthCare.gov, and Obama
WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Barack Obama’s chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away,...
View ArticleVirtuous veterans hard to find in British banking
By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - Calling all senior, experienced British bankers with a clean charge sheet and political nous. There might be a chairmanship role awaiting. With three of Britain's...
View ArticleInside the race to rescue a health site, and Obama
WASHINGTON – As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama’s chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a...
View ArticleNpower set to move 1,400 jobs to India
The announcement from npower is expected to affect a number of call centres across the UK. It is understood that frontline call centre operations will be outsourced to a third party in the UK, with...
View ArticleSelangor PKR assemblymen to give RM1,000 or 20 pct of salary to state...
BALIK PULAU: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today said he wanted the party's Selangor assemblymen to give a monthly contribution of RM1,000 or 20 percent of...
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