Suspicious tenders for water supply equipment

Autor: Vlatko Stojanovski In the last ten years, the water equipment company „Tehnoskop“ has concluded over 200 public procurement contracts with a total value of over one billion denars (or approximately 17.5 million euros), mostly with public communal enterprises аnd especially with the communal enterprise from Skopje. According to the official data provided from appropriate institutions, they are organized in an association of providers of communal services – ADKOM,...

RASHIDI AND MINOV HAVE INCREASED THEIR PROPERTY, FIVE MPS WITH NEW CARS

MP Pancho Minov on his current property worth 45,198 Euros has added “unspecified property” worth 23,600 Euros. Surija Rashidi has complemented his current property list worth 21,984 Euros with five new lands worth 159,614 Euros. Xhevat Ademi has reported his children’s property, that is, they are declared as “Co-owner of TD IC New Drive LLC”. Authors: Bjanka Stankovikj and Angela Rajchevska Within a period of three months MPs Surija...

SOME COMPANIES SEW, OTHERS TAKE THE CASH

                  Маичките за „Линк Медиа Плус“ ги шиела компанијата „Супер хит,“ ремените ги произвела фирмата „Југомлаз-1 ДООЕЛ. Од МВР за оваа набавка велат дека била од крајна итност, затоа не распишале тендер. Но, за неполна година МВР склучило три бизниси со оваа компанија „тешки“ 195.000. DOCUMENTATION TABELARY PRINCIPLE OF LINK MEDIA   writes: Aleksandra Filipovska     The company “Link Media...

The last nail in Macedonian Railways hammered 50 years ago

Goran Lefkov Empty trains, shortage of wagons, few locomotives, disastrously bad railroads. Although the safest, most comfortable and cheapest, our railway traffic is about to fall apart. Only the harsh reality – bad railway infrastructure, abolition of the already existing lines and absence of investments for normal functioning of this traffic remained from the empty political propaganda that in the past prompted the hope that the journey by modern...

Municipalities in debts without criteria, mayors lack control in spending money

Goran Lefkov   Macedonian municipalities owe 100 million Euros only for unpaid invoices. Some of these costs have been made in cafes, for asphalting streets before elections, and a good part for temporary employment. Municipalities with most debts are: Ohrid with16 million Euros, Tetovo 15, Karposh 8, Bitola 5, Struga 4 million and Kumanovo 3,7 million Euros. Most stuck in mayoral debts are the citizens of Ohrid. The accounts...

PUBLIC ENTERPRISES: ENORMOUS PROFIT, SPENDING ON REWARDS AND SERVING OF THE PARTY

The survey conducted within the project “Monitoring the principles of public administration in preserving the values ​​of good governance” showed that for three years the public enterprises founded by the municipalities, had given rewards to the employees in the amount of 150,000 Euros Ace Kocevski, mayor of Veles:”Public enterprises serve to care for meritorious party staff” The services of the administration in Novaci 11 times more expensive than the...

Overstaffed and ineffective administration while the reforms are being announced

Only 15% of the municipalities are securing the documents from other institutions The minister Damjan Manchevski announced reducing of administration workers. Some of them will be transferred to the private sector Professor Borche Davitkovski: We want to reduce the administration, and on the other hand for the people not to be fired   Goran Lefkov   Citizens are often forced to wander from institution to institution for an ordinary...

The municipalities do not reveal how they spend public money

Most transparent municipalities are: Shtip, Bitola, Kavadarci, Veles and Ohrid   Goran Lefkov     Most of the municipalities in Macedonia are not so interested to inform their citizens how they spend public money. The research of the Center for Change Management, within the framework of the project “Monitoring the principles of public administration in preserving the values ​​of good governance”, showed that the transparency index in all municipalities...