Qormi mayor put on state payroll at government’s CHOGM organisation office

Rosianne Cutajar, the Labour mayor of Qormi notorious for promoting herself as a ‘hostess’ in Catania, has left her job as a teacher of Italian in the private sector and has been put on the state payroll at the government’s CHOGM organisation office.

Cutajar opened a fashion boutique, called I AM, in Valletta’s St Lucy Street just after Labour was elected to government, but has now had to close it down because the anticipated surge in retail sales did not materialise.

Cutajar has been on the CHOGM government payroll for the last few months.

With absolutely no experience behind her except as a secondary-school teacher and boutique owner, she sits side by side with sacked Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit – who has retained his position on the CHOGM organisation committee – interviewing applicants for various positions.

The close friendship between the Qormi mayor and the (ex) Police Commissioner made the news when she barged a queue of cars that stretched all the way up the hill at Mgarr dock, Gozo, and headed straight to the front, trying to board. When the policeman at the gate tried to stop her, she rang the Police Commissioner, Peter Paul Zammit, demanded that his constable allow her to board, then passed her phone to the constable so that he could take instructions.