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Botswana must not be a flag of convenience for rogues

It is a troubling state of affairs when a nation that does not possess a single inch of coastline, let alone a functioning ship registry, suddenly finds itself listed as the flag state for seventeen ocean-going vessels.

‘A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle’.

- George William Curtis

Editor's Comment
Let the courts follow the money

“Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.”– B.R. AmbedkarThe amount of money at play threatens to test the integrity of the country’s financial system, giving more reason to why the courts must be fully given leeway to lean on the matter and reach a conclusion.Botswana has spent decades building her reputation as a stable and credible financial jurisdiction.The...

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