http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090405/local/sea-of-sewage-in-mellieha

Malta’s future isn’t looking too good, to be quite honest. Not that I blame the ever-increasing number of women in industry and their general rise to the upper levels of society. The collective Maltese inability to think long-term is the main problem, especially when it comes to government.

The above article shows a case in point. We have serious problems with sewage just as with pollution, with traffic management, with public transport with water production and with electricity production, not to mention dozens of smaller problems like paying well over the odds for almost anything one purchases in Malta, especially cars.

I can’t say whether Maltese women are concerned with these things from here in Vienna, but, for my children’s sake and for the sake of a pleasant retirement, I certainly hope so.

Be thankful your life doesn’t depend on writing because you’d be just passing away.

You sound more Victorian than the Victorians themselves.

This is where he must have got his inspiration from: http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/elephant_mouse.jpg

Maybe “Harold” is Anglu.

“And I happen to think that what I do for a living is far more respectable than trying to keep drug dealers, murderers and priests who rape the boys in their care out of prison.”

Yes, that’s one thing that really puzzles me about criminal lawyers in general: how they can sleep easy at night, knowing that their (usually lavish) lifestyle is – like it or not – funded by criminal activity (drug money, etc).

The only reason you stand out daphne is because you are
rude, and uneducated (no, you are not educated – whatever you may wish think). intelligent educated women do not have much time to spend writing scum about others. Your life depends on it.

You WISH you were in the leagues of Marlene Mizzi, Dr. Gianella Caruana Curran, Sara Grech…etc. But you just didn’t make it. Except as a political-ranter. You are not an educated person daphne…so don’t put yourself in our league.

ta-ra.
J.

[Daphne – Dream on, oblivious to the fact that Marlene and I like each other very much and get along just fine, and that if she were standing on the PN ticket I would vote for her, while Sara Grech is an old school-friend. As for the other person, there is no way on earth that I would want either her professional life, still less her disastrous personal life. The least you can say about me is that I always put my sons first and raised them myself. And I happen to think that what I do for a living is far more respectable than trying to keep drug dealers, murderers and priests who rape the boys in their care out of prison. But it takes all sorts to make a world.]

I know.

As to the participation rates of women in Malta I think that the statistics are very incorrect due to the black market. I’m sure you all know at least two women who work illegally. I myself know at least five. There is a very large number of women who work as maids, carers, hairdressers, nail technicians and other similar jobs and these are definitely not on the ETC register. I’m sure that if the government had to give some sort of benefit for employing home help for example we would suddenly have a considerable growth in our female working population. Anyway my point is that the local statistics need to be seen in this light and if the government needs to improve this statistic it needs to find a way of bringing these women out of the black economy and into the regular one.

With regards to changing mentalities I agree that there is a great difference between today and two decades ago. However I think that in saying that now women have the choice to work and to continue their career we should not denigrate women who choose to stay at home, to care for family members or to do anything else they deem fit. And this goes also for men. I know a couple of men who are now househusbands and I see nothing wrong in that, neither do I think that they are being shackled to the sink or something of the sort. I think women should have the same attitude to their peers.