Nahseb qallha “Tini ismek ja q**** ghax intik xebha katina” bhal ma kienu jahmlu in-nies tal-Lorry. U halluna tridux, gejjin bit-Thug. Il-veru ma taghfux min-xiex ghaddejna.

This is Malta. If you or your family don’t know anyone who’s connected, then you can’t be successful. I hope this country is moving to more equal opportunities as all this is very sad and I believe the root of the amount of corruption that exists on this island. I’m sure ”Chavs” can be good gynaecologists and university’s rectors Daphne!

[Daphne – Chavs is a description of behaviour and attitude, Bernard, not of social background. So no, chavs can’t be good university rectors, though some women might be happy to go to a chav gynaecologist. And no, it’s not WHO you know but WHAT you know, starting with how to behave and how to make proper conversation, and all the other things that get you noticed and liked by the right people. Give a working-class girl or boy a set of social skills and they can go anywhere and do anything. But without those social skills, they’re screwed no matter how many university degrees they have. Who cares if you’ve a doctorate in economics, if you talk with food in your mouth and wave your knife in the air? If you can’t talk about anything with anyone, everywhere?]

That is Peter Xuereb and he is not a ministry official because MITA is not a ministry.

Peter Xuereb wasn’t accused of murder. He asked someone for her name. If she really had ‘gazz’, she could have told him where to put it. She didn’t.

Anthony, going by your logic, Raffaele Sollecito should have been acquitted on day one because he’s related to a respected medical professional. The (real) world doesn’t and shouldn’t work like that.

PS. Since when are Maltese Rhodes Scholars revered? ;)

When I suggested that you would never do that because you have a reputation to protect that he could only ever *dream* of — unlike him, who is too scared to show his identity, because his only game is to throw mud and hide his hand — he was too chicken to publish my comments.

What he omits to acknowledge is that his ‘heroes’ never denied what they did — clearly because they couldn’t, due to the sheer number of Facebook witnesses that saw their posts. If people choose to be stupid in front of the whole world, they shouldn’t be surprised if this gets noticed. Not everyone is as stupid as they are.

This chav and others like him will always dismiss any evidence which is inconvenient to them — because it is not the truth they are interested in, but their own fabrications.

Well, I guess the company he keeps — people such as Nicola Abela Garrett and Matt Bonanno — suits him. What a prat.

No, he was erroneously thought of as being university staff, not a student.
Then the university categorically denied he was not.

Afterwards MaltaToday said he is the chief officer at the Malta IT Agency (MITA) which falls under Austin Gatt’s portfolio.

Then the ministry for IT distanced itself by declaring “Xuereb is not a ministry official”.

Since it is generally held that MaltaToday is unreliable, I’d tend to believe the Ministry over MaltaToday’s reportage i.e. that Xuereb is not an official of the MITA.

That still leaves the question, if he’s not a ministry official with MITA (probably either there’s some other Peter Xuereb, or this particular Peter Xuereb got instantaneously fired like Matthew Bonanno) then who is he?

Anthony, there’s no need to dig any deeper. We got what you’re trying to say—he’s the black sheep of the family. Yes, unfortunately, every family has one. They must be so ashamed of him.

[Daphne – He isn’t, actually. I love the way you lot comment about people and their families, when you couldn’t possibly know them from Adam.]