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Libel indemnities - Auditor General says NO, again!
As readers will know, the Wales Audit Office, and the Auditor General have said NO! to libel indemnities numerous times. The first occasion being the 2014 Public Interest Report ruling the bankrolling...
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Rotten Boroughs Awards 2019 - Order of the Brown Nose!
Despite his timely and hurried retirement it is pleasing to see that Mark James once again graces the pages of Private Eye. The eagerly awaited Rotten Boroughs New Year Honours in the latest edition...
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Wellness scandal - Swansea University statement - sticking to its guns
Swansea University have released a little more detail and background to the sackings and disciplinary proceedings relating to the Wellness village/Kuwait scandal.As the police investigation into...
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Inappropriate comments and musical Chairs
The crass and insensitive remarks made by Labour Cllr Kevin Madge over an application for a care home to house three vulnerable children serves as a reminder of the calibre of some of our elected...
View ArticleHomelessness grant failure, and CRWG to discuss the unlawful libel clause
As this blog has reported over the years the council's management of grants has often left a lot to be desired. Back in 2015, internal audit exposed a catalogue of failure in delivering the Supporting...
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News in brief...and remote meetings underway - updated
The council finally managed to organise a remote Executive Board meeting which was held yesterday, and a full council meeting looks set for the 10th June. Despite the calibre of the attendees,...
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Century Wharf, an invoice, and Mark James, again...
Good piece over on Jac o'the North's latest blog post on former Carmarthenshire chief executive and Private Eye's Shit of the Year 2016, Mark James, do have a read.Jac provides a brief summary of some...
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Grillo site - the toxic saga
The notorious Grillo site at Burry Port cropped up again a few weeks ago in the form of a mysterious exempt item on the Executive Board agenda. The couple of hectares, by the harbour, was once the site...
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Flying the flag
Monday's Executive Board agenda (7th Sept) is resplendent with a new flag flying policy, the snappily titled 'Equality Promotion Calendar and Flag & Illumination Protocol'. Not perhaps the greatest...
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Emlyn's Hot Tub
Several people have contacted me after noticing Plaid Council Leader Emlyn Dole's purpose built holiday home, complete with hot tub advertised on Airbnb, etc. There's nothing like a quiet Welsh getaway...
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The slush fund - will it stay or will it go?
Just a brief mention that the thorny issue of unlawful libel indemnities is due to crop up again on Thursday, October 1st, or so I'm told by head of legal Linda Rees Jones. Ms Jones continues to carry...
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Century Wharf - a forged signature, and the cladding scandal
Since the Grenfell tragedy in 2017, cladding inspections have been required for all high rise residential buildings in the UK. The UK government provided cash to replace the flammable cladding in...
View ArticleThe slush fund to go...sort of
Previous post; The slush fund - will it stay or will it go?As I said in my previous post above, full council will discuss the future of the slush fund, (or unlawful libel indemnity clause to give it...
View ArticleThe libel indemnity clause has gone, sort of...and Thursday's meeting
Well, the libel indemnity clause, the slush fund, has gone, sort of. The item finally came up at Thursday's full council meeting and passed without murmur or comment from anyone. The Constitution will...
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Tangled webs
As we wait for news from the police and CPS over the council's Wellness scandal, we'll take a look at how some of the key players, some of whom were sacked or suspended for gross misconduct from...
View ArticleCouncil to give £100,000 to the evangelical bowling alley
Followers of this blog might recall a controversy several years ago when our council gifted £1.4m in land, lease and buildings, and a £270k loan to the Towy Community Church Ltd. The church opened a...
View ArticleNews in brief - School closure scrutiny slashed, and an Ombudsman report
With Scrutiny Committees slowly reappearing on the council calendar, Monday's meeting of the Education and Children Scrutiny Committee will, in fact, be discussing the reduction of scrutiny from...
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The Burn family - Nia Griffith MP petitions parliament
Llanelli MP Nia Griffith (Lab) has petitioned parliament to call for an independent review into the way Dyfed Powys Police handled the case of the Burn family back in 2010. The family have been seeking...
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The leaked £191,000 costs report - redacted, five years on
I've been quietly battling, since February, to get the Executive Board report, now nearly five years old, which recommended that the council pursue me for £191,000 in legal defence costs from the libel...
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Century Wharf - Mark James’ take-over bid
As a follow on post from 'Tangled webs', yet again we see that one of the police suspects, currently languishing under criminal investigation from the Wellness scandal, has lost no time in adding to...
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