Well said, D and Banquo.

This is one of the more insightful summings-up of Malta that I’ve read or heard in the past few years. Urban-cum-provincial mentality.

Ours must be times of transition. We are leaving the old, rural mentality and entering the new, urban mentality. And like all times of transition, there are elements of both worlds.

No. But they’re more likely to be in contact with the needy and the vulnerable. That’s what makes this incident so awful.

Do proof-readers exist anymore? It’s pretty obvious that they make use of a spell checker, such as the one on MS Word.

Not to mention ‘was recovering in hospital’ (= kienet rikoverata l-isptar), yet another transliteration. It’s no use telling us she was ‘recovering in hospital’ unless we’ve been told what she’s recovering from. The writer meant to say ‘was being treated in hospital’, surely.

But back to the story. Was this turd dismissed? Anyone got any idea?

Yes, but especially in Catholic Malta, where corruption is rife and “blacks” are looked down upon (and host-gobblers openly stating that they should go back where they came from “because we are Catholic and we don’t want them interfering in our religion”),