Il-Guyana: paint his nails, give him a skirt and some bangles, and he’ll pass muster anyway
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140902/local/ec-wants-malta-to-nominate-woman.534083
I’d say that if he could dye his hair red, get nail extensions and paint those red too, he could pass for Grace Borg.
Yes, but from where will he get an attractive pair of boobies?
Remember, the Commission expects no less than eighteen in all.
Why?
Does Grace Borg have an attractive pair of boobies? I wouldn’t know…
Ciccio nominates Grace Borg. Ejja, more nominations, please.
Kevin Ellul Bonici.
And don’t say you weren’t expecting that.
Aaaaahhh x’textix !
He will not, Grace Borg is thicker than him and by thicker I mean wider and by wider I mean fatter.
Cameron’s Britain will oppose Grace Borg. They cannot afford another outbreak of ilsien u dwiefer.
There must be a reason for this leak to the Times. Does anyone at the PM’s office want il-Guy out of the way?
Too bad Merilweez has been made President of the Folk. But there’s always Marlene Farrugia weighing down on the prime minister.
I expect that, after the John Dalli experience, the European Commission doesn’t want to be saddled with another Malta reject.
Oh, it’s not him, its his gender.
Seems to me that Dr Juncker is calling Joseph Muscat ‘s bluff that he has several high calibre persons to choose from. I am sure he can find one such female from his bevy of Facebook friends.
Isn’t it rather late to come out?
Some interesting news:
Prof Lino Bianco has been appointed on the Board of Directors of Wasteserv.
https://www.wasteservmalta.com/index_main.aspx?id=103
I am sure that Joseph Muscat will seize this opportunity to set an example and prove that he is leading the most feminist government in Malta’s history.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120919/local/Muscat-pledges-feminist-government.437491
The same thing happened at one point with the choice of Maltese judges for the European Court of Human Rights (not an EU institution, but still worth mentioning). A woman wasn’t chosen due to the lack of competence of the candidates who put forward their names for consideration.
Let’s see how “the most feminist government in Malta’s history” – which should, in theory, thus have a choice of able women to choose from – handles this situation.
As soon as he opens his mouth, Juncker will know that he’s got his ‘woman’.
The PM could have played a clever card: he could have decided to withdraw Karmenu Vella’s nomination and replace him with a woman in exchange for a better portfolio. But that would only have been smart had he done it last week; now, if he does switch nominees (he knows a thing or two about switching), it would appear that it had been done under pressure from Brussels. Of course, it would also have been an opportunity to put forward a better qualified candidate.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140903/opinion/Tag-na-Lkoll-lawlessness.534176
Why not Michelle Muscat?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-09-03/news/new-height-limitation-policy-mepa-is-being-proactive-ps-michael-falzon-says-6442254337/
“In Gozo’s case, it is only hotels in Marsalforn and Xlendi which can have an additional two storeys.”
A disaster in the making. Marsalforn and Xendi already have developments which are out of scale with the resorts. This will make it worse. What about residents living behind the hotel? Would it be fair to have their views blocked?
What guarantees are there in the new policy against the hotel building additional floors and then leaving them ‘gebel u saqaf’ ? It can and will happen just as so many buildings everywhere are left unfinished. This would increase eyesores.
What guarantee is there that the hotel owner would not seek to convert to residential after having acquired the additional floors? Look what happened at the Jerma.
Why should there be discrimination in favour of owners of hotel buildings against owners of other properties? The argument that the increase in floor height will improve the tourism product is a myth.
The Tourism Minister said he wanted better quality tourists. This is DEFINITELY not the way to achieve better quality.
Of course, this is a face-saving way of telling Dr Muscat that Karmenu Vella will not be accepted and that he should change his nomination before the grilling session, because we all know what is going to happen there, don’t we?
If this report is to be believed, there could be a contingency plan: http://euobserver.com/institutional/125430
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140903/opinion/opinion-taghna-lkoll-lawlessness.534176
Isn’t Martin Scicluna one of those people who encouraged us to vote Labour because we needed a change?
Seems as if he’s bugged of them already.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-09-03/news/malta-slips-six-places-in-global-competitiveness-index-6444318720/
Here is why we do not need to worry about the drop in foreign direct investment by 25% as announced by the National Statistics Office.
Zimbabwe economy: Investments plunging, says bank governor
BBC, 26 August 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28936300
“Foreign investment in Zimbabwe more than halved in the first six months of the year, the country’s central bank chief John Mangudya has said.”
So while Malta’s foreign investment dropped by 25%, in Zimbabwe it fell by over 50%.
Good. We need to double our effort to beat Zimbabwe.
And what did Zimbabwe do to compensate for the mess which the 90 year-old president Robert Mugabe has created? They did like Joseph Muscat, and went to China.
Robert Mugabe, the 90 year old president, is a long-time friend of China. In terms of Zimbabwe’s relations with China, Mugabe is their equivalent of Dom Mintoff, except that Mintoff died 2 years ago, so his orphan, Joseph Muscat, continued where Mintoff had left off with China. Muscat was lucky because AST, a fossil from Mintoff’s era, was still around to explain to him the ropes.
Nothing to do with the above, but I have an idea for an ideal gift that will please Dr, Chris Fearne no end – a Tamagotchi Baby, programmed to a breast feeding schedule.
Dr. Fearn can then experience – to some extent – the exigencies of breast feeding. He should carry the Tamagotchi Baby every minute of the day and night, and “breast feed” the baby as required.
Will he rise up to the occasion or will he “kill” the baby out of desperation?
We’re slipping straight into Karmenu’s “Golden years”: I like listening to the radio in the afternoon, and lately I started to follow Mario Laus on Radju Malta. I like oldies and Mario is a good DJ.
Today I was terribly disappointed when after the two o’clock news from the BBC, he started reading as usual the SMSs which he receives. I close an eye when we listeners cannot share the message between Mario and the message sender, and Mario replies ‘I agree with you on what you wrote…’; but today Mario did something which he couldn’t do in the eighties when I used to follow his programme (remember the signature tune? “All right you guys rise and shine…”).
He read a politically loaded message about the columns of clay of Mater Dei Hospital and commented “J’Alla ma jkollniex aktar minnhom.” I am sure that Enzo Guzman who is being replaced by Mr Laus wouldn’t have read that kind of message.
Mario, you owe your listeners an apology, which you should read out on your programme after two o’clock tomorrow, and we’ll let bygones be bygones. If you don’t, we’ll confirm that if you vote Labour you get this sort of unprofessionalism. Stay out of politics and stick to Sixties music.
Daphne
I am not too sure about how you feel about the real news behind this.
If i were of the fairer gender i think i may feel a trifle offended, indeed i would possibly have my knickers in a bit of a twist…
Why would any body need to IMPOSE a woman candidate. Are they not able to get the job (if they wanted it) on their own merits?
Surely our recent showing as regards MEPs demonstrates that our female capabilities are strong and no token by the EU is needed.
I wonder if you would agree.
Is this the diplomatic way, (from the EU Commission), to tell our Labour Government that Guy is not welcome/acceptable?
OMG.
James Debono and MaltaToday are excited because the UN Council for Human Rights wants SOCAR – which has 20% stake in Electrogas Consortium – to be accountable and transparent.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/43117/socar_should_be_more_accountable__un_body
How about James Debono and Malta Today asking for Gasol plc – a shell company which holds 30% and is project leader of the Electrogas Consortium – to be transparent? Gasol is majority controlled by Liberian Ethelbert J. L. Cooper who acts as “Strategic Advisor” to the board of Gasol – where he can control the direction of (his own) company with the directors acting as his puppets – and then he hides his ownership, control and financing schemes behind a company registered in the highly secretive jurisdiction of The Seychelles.
The Sunday Times of London described Ethelbert J. L. Cooper’s shell companies as “a go-between for the Chinese” who provide the funds for Mr. Cooper’s lucrative but corrupt deals in Africa which form part of China’s schemes of “infrastructure-for-resources.”
African media M&G reports from the 1990s – the period which Mr. Cooper does not disclose in his bio published by the website of the Harvard University’s Hutchins Centre – show that Mr. Cooper was a close aide of Emanuel Shaw II, a former Minister of Samuel Doe, and then a confidante and ambassador extraordinaire of Charles Taylor, both Liberian dictators. Charles Taylor was an African warlord with connections to drug cartels, who initiated the first Liberian civil war in 1989. He also involved himself in the civil war of Sierra Leone of 1991-2002, for which he was tried by a UN-backed court which found him guilty of all 11 charges brought against him which included charges of crimes against humanity, war crimes and other hineous acts against humanity. Charles Taylor, who is serving a 50 year jail term, was trained as a guerilla fighter in Ghaddafi’s Libya in the 1980s when Ghaddafi was regarded as a terrorist.
James Debono’s article about SOCAR and this website’s findings about Gasol plc and Mr. Ethelbert J.L. Cooper remind me of this article, written by Kurt Sansone:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131013/local/gas-bidder.490079
If there ever was a certificate of the incompetence of Konrad Mizzi, this statement is the one:
“He (Konrad Mizzi) described the winning consortium as “a world class” team and the bid was able to get bank finance for the project.”
This is a consortium which comprises at least two entities which are up to their neck in sleaze, and the Phenomenal Minister of Energy, Health, Ovaltine and Podologists calls the consortium “world class.”
The article adds also that “There will be a separate lease agreement with Enemalta on how much rent to pay for the public land the consortium will require to build the necessary infrastructure.”
The government of Malta is giving 30% of the Electrogas deal to Chinese communist interests hidden behind a Liberian friend and associate of former Liberian dictators and convicted criminal, warlord and drug dealer Charles Taylor, and this deal includes land at Marsaxlokk.
The deal also involves putting the Liberian, Mr. Ethelbert J.L.Cooper – who is deemed to be an associate of the hineous crimes which went on in Liberia in the 1990s-2000s and which resulted in the death of 200,000 Liberians – in charge of a 30% leading interest in an LNG tanker in the middle of the populated Marsaxlokk harbour with some 20,000-30,000 people living around the area.
Not to mention the fact that the deal with Electrogas involves:
1. Power purchase from a new 200MW powerstation – this is a deal in excess of Eur 100 million p.a. of electricity to be bought by Enemalta. A quick computation of the figure would be something like this:
200MW x 1000 (conversion to kW at 1MW = 1,000kW) x 24 hours per day (conversion to kWH) x 365 days x 0.096 cents per kWH (price declared by Konrad Mizzi) x 80% (efficiency factor – assuming that only about 80% of capacity can reach the network and be billed to Enemalta)
This amounts to Eur 126 million p.a.
2. Gas purchase for the existing BWSC plant. Now this is an interesting bit. BWSC is now owned by China, so really it should be China contracting for the gas. But let us say Enemalta buys the gas and sells it to BWSC. Here we are talking about another figure in excess of Eur 100 million of gas p.a. (BWSC plant capacity is slightly lower than 200MW).
Therefore, a commitment by Enemalta to a total of Eur 250 million p.a. of power and gas purchases for 18 years, equal to around Eur 5 billion, of which Eur 1.5 billion will be channelled through Mr. Cooper’s “dirty” cash shell companies piled up as one company behind the other through The Seychelles.
Definition of a dirty cash shell:
“A cash shell consists of a company name, a stock market listing, a director or two and a lump of cash in the bank. Sometimes divided into ‘clean’ or ‘dirty’, the former are purpose-built to buy suitable companies in certain sectors, while the latter are companies where a previous business was sold and there is nothing left apart from the remains of their bank balance and some possibly troublesome shareholders.”
growthbusinessDOTcoDOTuk
I wonder what the Church Commission, which this week spoke about the smart meters at Armier has to say about a deal involving land and billions of Euro with Ethelbert J.L. Cooper.
correction:
“This amounts to Eur 134 million p.a.”
The figure of Eur 126 million p.a. was a rough computation using 9 cents, not 9c6, per kWH.
Well done, Ciccio, for your researched and informative comments about the tacky Gasol saga and its implications for our equally tacky energy future!
BTW, is this the signal that our dear D will pick up where our favourite blog has left some weeks ago? Hopefully so, so as ‘Illum’s Il-Poodle “ma jibqax jimmissja r-remettar” ta’ li qal isib f’dal-blog. Sadattant jista’ jiggosta tip ta’ remettar iehor fuq diversi media lokali, kemm digitali kif ukoll mhumiex.
It’s a pleasure, Last Post. With Daphne’s permission, I plan to summarise the background of Mr. Cooper for publication on Daphne’s website – a sort of the real detailed bio of Ethelbert J.L.Cooper from credible internet sources, in case the website of the Hutchins Centre of the Harvard University may wish to upload it instead of their current ‘abbreviated’ version – and I must not forget to include his Singapore connection…
Too late mate. Wahhaltuna
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140903/opinion/opinion-taghna-lkoll-lawlessness.534176
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140904/local/agents-say-australia-hall-was-grossly-undervalued.534313
You were saying about getting away with murder?
This lot is the incarnation of everything holding this country back.
It is clear their idea of the average voter is one who’ll do the same, extending it to define the prototype as typical Maltese has to be the ultimate insult.
Their ideology is a perversion of political aspiration to State, no different to the Sicilian mafia’s cupola attempting to a state within the State.
Perhaps Gonzi’s real blame is that of reducing himself to decision maker without vindicating the moral questions.
Morality of the State that is. Letting them hound him and his ‘confessional’ politics remains the blot.
What is clear, is that the PN has a moral duty to win the next general election, an imperative to govern this place.
Good luck to you, Karm.
Fish and tunny nets seem to be Karmenu Vella’s destiny.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-09-04/news/karmenu-vella-to-be-given-fisheries-portfolio-6455525376/
No woman, no……
Who will have the great honour of replacing il-Guy in parliament? I can hardly wait for this new source of wisdom and political prowess.
It seems he is to have the Fisheries portofolio, so I think it will be appropriate to dress him up as a mermaid
Gormless.
It is becoming clear that it is unlikely that we will see a new 200MW gas plant in operation by Electrogas by 9 March 2015.
It is also highly unlikely that we will see the BWSC plant converted to gas from 9 March 2015, because the gas infrastructure itself is unlikely to be in place by that date.
At this point, it is important for the media, or the opposition, to ask questions of the government about how the government of Malta (in the legal form of Enemalta) – and hence we the public – will be protected from the extra costs associated with such failures.
If it is true that gas lowers the the cost per unit of electricity to Enemalta, or to any third party provider of electricity to Enemalta (e.g. Electrogas), then the costs of Enemalta should go down from 9 March 2015 if all gas plants are in place.
On the other hand, Enemalta will continue to suffer higher costs if those plants are not in place.
According to Joseph Muscat’s and Konrad Mizzi’s roadmap, on 9 March 2015 Enemalta should be having available to it 200MW of electricity from the Electrogas consortium at 9c6 per unit. At the moment, using Enemalta’s technology, the cost per unit of electricity to Enemalta is higher by 50% or more.
So what compensation has the government put in place in favour of Enemalta and against Electrogas in the contract which the government and The Times say has been signed (but which Enemalta says it is still in the process of finalising) in the event that by 9 March the gas infrastructure is not in place?
I think that the Auditor General should be involved in telling Parliament what clauses are contained in the contract, hoping they do not breach the national security, national interest and commercial sensitivity.
More questions about the gas plant.
The government has issued an expression of interest for the power purchase adn gas supply agreements, and this has been awarded to Electrogas, a company with Chinese interests hidden behind Gasol.
According to the Minister of Phenomenal Energy, 12-hour Blackouts and Eur 25 Compensation – Dr Konrad Mizzi – Enemalta will be buying electricity at 9c6 from Electrogas, which, perhaps one day, will build a new 200MW powerstation.
Meanwhile, Enemalta has sold its new BWSC plant to Communist China, which will be converting the plant to gas and will use the gas infrastructure to be built, one day, by Electrogas.
Therefore, the electricity to be produced by the BWSC and the Electrogas powerstations should practically have the same cost structures.
Can some journalist kindly ask, and obtain replies, for the following questions:
Has Enemalta signed a power supply agreement with the Chinese company which will own the BWSC plant?
How much is the electricity to be bought from China’s BWSC going to cost per unit to Enemalta? Is this also to be bought at 9c6, and if not, why not, and how much?
http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2014-09-07/news/cartoon-07-september-2014-6482165763/
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/09/07/arrangament-mil-labour-ghall-klijentelizmu/
They don’t know the limit where to stop.
X’faqar ta nies. L-ewwel il-labour . it-tieni il-labour umbaghad int.
Dan serju wiehed minn dawk illil jekk jkun fuq bord tal-ghazla l-ewwel criteria li jghazel huwa is size tas-sider tal-mara dik serjeta.
I am sorry to say it but things are not right. We thank God that we didn’t have a dictatorship because our mentality is prone to a dictatorship. It is unconceivable that certain facts are divulged in public and heads don’t roll and the police don’t take action. We will see what happens. the electorate has to give a signal some way or another.
Certain actions are really politically irresponsible.
The situation is this PN 10- Labour 0 and there is still 15 minutes left What shall we do shall we keep on scoring or else sit back and maybe let them score a couple of goals .
Irhila li jekk issaqsih domanda fuq l-energija u is-sahha dak bil-mohh li ghandhu hemm ha jmur m’hemmx x;tagheml imma naqra serjeta
Insomma these are my reflections and impressions
They said that they would not stand for it but they had to digest much things no LIBEL came against certain accusations. It’s true than
U mhux ovvja li kien qieghed jitkellem fuq xi haga ohra what the hell was he saying FENOMENALI.
i am sorry to say it but we have all the elements conducive to a dictatorship we have the political caste, the mentality and situation which lead to this state
kif inhuma mahruqin mahruqin xejn aktar hruq pero xota ahdar jibqa
Jekk il labour ma joqghodx ghal din il-kritka allura zbalja xoghol il-labour. Zbaljat xoghol
Although Daphne is on holiday, this one deserves a quick comment here.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140910/local/karmenu-vella-assigned-environment-fisheries-responsibilities-include-hunting.535155
Readers posting comments in the other Maltese ‘independent’ media are worrying because Karmenu Vella could now ruin what is left of Malta’s environment and that the same fate awaits the European environment.
The environment portfolio requires energy, and Karmenu Vella does not have much left of that, if he ever had any.
Jean Claude Juncker is a wise man. He has given Karmenu Vella a portfolio he will not be capable to manage. The environment? What the hack is that?
So I suspect that Karmenu Vella will not even make it past the European Parliament grilling. A few questions about his views on Spring hunting, hunting illegalities in Malta and bird trapping should be enough for a thumbs down.
On maritime affairs and fisheries, one can truly say that Vella has gone from the Tunny Net to netting tuna.
There is going to be a lot of hand gesturing during the European Parliament hearing of Karmenu Vella – especially as he tries to explain that he forgot what reply he had given to earlier questions.
I retract my earlier comment about Grace Borg and red. I suggest green nail extensions.
Hunting… with the Ebola crisis that risks mutating to go airborne… what a laugh that such a responsible Commissioner is in charge of controlling what gets done about migrating wildlife across Europe.
The pits.
Gasol – the company which is majority owned and controlled by Ethelbert J.L.Cooper, a serial Liberian entrepreneur, a front for Chinese money, and former associate of Emmanuel Shaw II of Liberia, and which will own 30% of Malta’s gas power infrastructure – has overhauled its website, deleting all material which could in any way be prejudicial to the company.
http://www.gasolplc.com/
Gone are all references to Afren plc, the company on whose strategy Gasol depends in West Africa. This necessitated a major surgery on the website, and the removal is clearly very deliberate.
Afren is currently in the eye of the storm after the discovery of evidence by an independent UK law firm that suggests that a number of directors – who have now been suspended – received unauthorised payments. Corporate governance at Afren has been under scrutiny for some time.
There has also been a North Korean style purge at the top of Gasol.
http://www.gasolplc.com/about-us/board-senior-management.aspx
Reference to Rilwanu Lukman, the company’s Chairman who died with the delisting of the company from the London AIM on 21 July, has been deleted. There is not even a single announcement about Dr. Lukman’s death.
Fasine Fofana and Cornelia Mayer have been removed. What happened to them: were they fed to the dogs or were they disposed of ‘in orbit’ aboard one of Pyong Yang’s failed satellite launches?
There is some information about the Malta LNG project, but Gasol makes no reference to important things such as project time frames, target delivery date or current status.
http://www.gasolplc.com/our-business/malta-lng-to-power-project.aspx
One certainty remains. Ethelbert J.L. Cooper, a Liberian who according to Wikileaks was Assistant Minister for Administration in Liberia in 1976, remains the Strategic Advisor of the Board, meaning that he continues to control the puppets who sit on the board.
http://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976MONROV03528_b.html
What a coincidence that Ebola has struck in that very part of the world.
Good to see that the Chinese were prompt in sending a sizeable medical team in.
Daphne, the headline on the times of malta online reads: We are after talent, not money. Does this mean that Muscat has finally realised that there is a lack of talent in his gross cabinet?
People are getting really confused.
““I would like to congratulate Ireland’s Phil Hogan on his nomination as Agricultural Commissioner designate and Karmenu Vella on her nomination for EU Fisheries and Environment Commissioner.”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=49&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEwQFjAIOCg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snp.org%2Fmedia-centre%2Fnews%2F2014%2Fsep%2Fsmall-eu-countries-nominated-key-eu-posts&ei=7P4RVOT7KMf4yQOzg4Bw&usg=AFQjCNHAvwHrjVE9lS7qusdNuTWQHNd_qQ&sig2=imwLBera1vb0SlkWyNj9Kg
Joey, wifee, two bambinos PLUS nanny now in New York, soon on the way to California, totally unscheduled, to stay at the best hotel in SF. Some passport conference.
Vera vera, Malta taghhom biss.
Nista nobsor ir-risposta li ta Conrad wara li inqata id-dawl.
it-tip ta Happy Go Lucky
!) toqghodx tinkwieta joe marret is-salvavita kont fil gallinar kelli x’naghmel ma statx nohroq qabel bilhaq kemm ircevejt paga ma deherlekx li taghna 200 euro nieqsa din id-darba
2) kellna lose contact fid-dawl tal-christmas tree insejna innehhuha.
Another possible answer is
Toqghodx tinkwieta Joe kollox jghaddi ftit sieghat u jaddi ukoll.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-09-12/news/leading-european-environmental-ngos-question-vellas-ec-nomination-6550093827/
how can I contact you, Daphne?
[Daphne – [email protected]]
The fan club of the late Mwammar Gheddafi are still going strong on the fb of the local Islamic centre’
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Malta-Arab-Islamic-Centre/145916725453121?sk=timeline
kellu jsib ruhu hemm dak l imbarazz
Daphne – please come back ! I’m suffering from severe withdrawal symptoms .
Daphne, Daphne, where art thou???
Enjoy your holiday or whatever. In the mean time do us a favour and remove that guy from on top of the page. Too much to bear, day in day out.
I hope you’re enjoying a well-deserved rest – however – next time you leave, could you pleeeease not leave us with a horrible picture to look at? I’ve been logging in once a day (at least) and just can’t stand seeing Guyana anymore!
All the best. Looking forward to your writings and those days when I just can’t keep up with your output.
We miss you Daphnecaruanagalizia.com! !!
http://wakeupscotland.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/ewan-morrison-yes-why-i-joined-yes-and-why-i-changed-to-no/
“Wake up Scotland” can easily be replaced by “Wake up Malta”, whilst the “yes” campaign can be replaced by the Malta Labour Party.
The similarities are uncanny.
Can someone tell me who signed this girl’s leave form! Two weeks without our Daphne is way too much. I recommend a stop leave notice… all in favour say ‘aye’.
WE CAN’T WAIT ANY MORE FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
WHAT’S WRONG? WE ARE GETTING WORRIED!
What happened no more news?
I hope you are well and we will soon start hearing from you.
Regards.
Joe
Intimidated into submission? Could be – I guess you have to hedge your risks from time to time. Or perhaps an iced bun in order to shut up, Bondi style? Naah… Taking time to prepare a Dick Dastardly plan for revenge and bring down this motley crew? Whatever the reason, it’s just not the same without your blog. Please be back, SOON.
Ejja Karmenu…ha jiehdu risposta!! Qed jghidu li ha taqa an-nejk l-EC. Tijhom risposta ha jaqaw an nejk huma :)
What a bunch of wannabeesssssss :)
Last blog received is dated 02.09.2014.
Next time you bugger off for three weeks, please leave a picture of a sunset or waterfall or anything but some old saddo.
Daphne, Daphne oh where art thou ??
Come back please!!! And when you do go away, please don’t leave us with Guyana…
Hi Daphne, Good Morning.
I read your Notebook page for quite some time and I enjoyed it immensely, even though I never commented on any article you published. But I assure you it was one of my favorite pages I visited every day. Now, since it is over three weeks since your last blog was published, I am wondering what happened to it (and to you)!?
I sincerely hope that all is well with you and I look forward to reading your page regularly once again soon.
Best Regards.
Dear Daphne,
What happened to your blog? I am really missing it.
Daphne – where are you? We’re bereft. Please come back soon.
Whatever happened to this blog?
Dear Daphne, I hope you and your family are well. Hopefully you are just having a long break from your blog and have not now. given up. We need you back. Best wishes.
A truly pathetic person!
Yes, Karmenu Vella really is, isn’t he?
WE MISSED YOUR BLOG, DAPHNE.
HALLEJTNA ILTIEMA, bla kliem u bla sliem!!
And so say all of us
Daphne, I missed your hard hitting journalism. Malta desperately needs you. You provide us with important news that the local newspapers are afraid to do.
Daphne, I see some movement on your website. I have been staring at Guyana for too long now. Was starting to think they had given you a poisoned iced bun.
please please tell us you’re back, having been checking your page hour on the hour and every single day !. We need you.
Never felt orphaned as much as last month.
Thank God you’re back! I was going bonkers here. What with Karmenu Vella’s grilling and closing of the hunting season and its aftermath. Honestly, it was too much to bear without your blog.
I seriously think I’m hopelessly addicted. A big thank you for your sterling journalism and your dedication in running this one -man show
Welcome back and although I missed your blog, it never ever crossed my mind that you decided to do a Lou Bondi !
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Whenever I read a “Taghna Lkoll” piece of news I always think “I wonder what Daphne will make of this” and I rush over to this site. I miss getting the real stories and not the Times of Malta rubbish. Please come back!
It had to be a storm to bring back this bubbling website into life!
At long last Daphne is back!
WELCOME BACK !! sorry if I am shouting, but it is so so good to have you back. I was having withdrawal symptoms.
Welcome back, Daphne. You were greatly missed. We felt completely lost without your blog.
Welcome back dear Daphne we were worried about you , God bless and thanks.