COMMENT | Bestinet’s lawyers have issued a press statement so polished it practically glows, and so should it, given how much public money has flowed through this operation.

We are told, with great solemnity, that before the Foreign Worker Centralised Management System (FWCMS), employers queued at 3am and documents were falsified.

Congratulations, Bestinet. You identified a problem. What you built as the solution, however, deserves far more scrutiny than a self-congratulatory press release written by your own legal team.

Let us talk about the so-called “zero cost to government”.

A privately funded system that nevertheless charges fees on..