@Dee – 42 years, not six months.

The only excuse I have is my age, barely sixteen in 1987.

I wasn’t aware of the Ta’ Giorni ‘suicides’, and that serves to change my perspective. The 80s, lately subjected to some very sly revisionist propaganda, I can now read in a much wider perspective.

The piece made me remember my uncle’s anecdotes. Having served in Alexandria in WWII, he fell in love with Libya and decided to remain there.

He came back when his friends advised him it was no longer safe for foreigners because of the revolution.

Little did he know it would follow him to Malta. He was wary of the Nationalists, but shared their respect human dignity.

I want to know who’s been on Gaddafi’s payroll, to what extent his cash permeated Maltese politics, whether those who redirected his agenda(s) were on it. And this doesn’t exclude Labour.

You will find Russians, Eritreans, Bulgarians, Ethiopians, French, Slovaks, Serbs and sometimes a Maltese girl or rather a 50 year old woman who has been doing the job for years.
House maids/seftura in Malta are Maltese and in villas one will find Filipino maids and nurses/carers.

Don’t be so naive , this is an ongoing game played by all governments, good or bad. The icing on the cake is diplomatic immunity.

While reading this article I got a feeling that Malta could have gone down a similar road. Mintoff took a ‘wajs?’ decision to remove himself from power pre ’87.

@ Daphne

So what’s the bottom line here?

@Ms DCG, I beg to differ re Libyan girls sent to Malta to get a convent education in the sixties. Relatives of mine attending convent schools in the sixties had Libyan schoolmates in class together with girls from foreign families (American, Yugoslav etc) working in Libya.

[Daphne – You might be thinking of the 1970s.]

There were also, as you rightly point out, convent schools in Libya itself , which schools were later on closed down when Gheddafi seized power. Ooops, I missed out the bit about Libyan girls working as maids NOW.

@LaRedoute;
If that is the case, then how come the scribblers in Salvu Balzan’s stables will not write a Pulitzer-winning article about it?

Or are they more interested in writing fairy tales?

My blood boils at the possibility of Malta being used as a base to help prop up the Gaddafi regime these last six months.

We have had a University for some 500 years. The Lyceum was considered a very good secondary school, and there many private and Church schools.