L-ettiks ta’ Salvu Balzan
On timesofmalta.com, this morning:
Outgoing Malta Enterprise chairman Alan Camilleri believes there is a correlation between the refusal of his agency to advertise in Malta Today and stories the newspaper published against him.
Taking the witness stand, Mr Camilleri said reasons had been given to the newspaper for the failure to advertise but the editor Saviour Balzan was unhappy about it.
Malta Enterprise is the agency responsible for the promotion of foreign investment and industrial development in Malta.
Mr Camilleri was testifying in his libel suit against Mr Balzan over what he claims were slanderous and fabricated stories about a party allegedly held on New Year’s Eve at the agency’s offices.
He said the attacks on him had not started with this fictitious story about the party but had been going on for a period of time. They had started because Mr Balzan was unhappy about the refusal to advertise, even though he had been given the reasons for it. There was a correlation between the refusal and the attacks made on him, Mr Camilleri said.
The case continues.
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Did he manage to sell the house?
Totally unrelated to this article, I’m afraid, but do you know who Mario Debono is? According to Joseph Muscat he has a lot of power in the Nationalist party. I would really like to know.
[Daphne – Of course I know who Mario Debono is. Not through politics, though. He’s a contemporary of one of my sisters and also, he imports pharmaceuticals. He is one of those individuals the Labour Party likes to hassle, for no particular reason other than that he makes his contempt for them very clear. Individuals always have power in the Nationalist Party, accordingly to the Labour Party, when the Labour Party doesn’t like them. I am a case in point.]
Please, Daphne, can you tell us what’s going on about the Polish art collector who wants to leave his collection in Malta?
Thanks.
[Daphne – I always start off from the point that there is no such thing as a free lunch and that no one does anything for free. I am not privy to the requests for the deal and so cannot comment. Nor have I seen the collection and I am not one to take the owner’s word for it – for obvious reasons – or that of a curator of whom I have never heard even though I known most people in the field in Malta. I’m sorry I sound sceptical, but Malta has a long history of being taken in by Greeks bearing gifts.]
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120515/local/-Hurry-up-and-show-my-art-I-don-t-have-time-to-waste-.419814
Let’s hope the government accepts ASAP. They would be royal idiots if they let this opportunity slip through their hands.
[Daphne – And they would be royal idiots, too, if they allowed themselves to be pushed about with such patronising arrogance like the administrators of a third-world island in the 1950s. Nobody does anything for free, and that includes the gentleman in question. Malta has been the victim of far too many manipulators already, precisely because of its strange inferiority complex and its tendency to grab at ‘free goods’. I’ll reserve judgement on the collection until somebody other the owner and curator has actually seen it. It may be wholly genuine, but then again it might just be a tax dodge.]
I am baffled by so much lack of integrity in Malta.
Straight from the illiterate front. Tourism ‘will be killed with lack of info structure.’
sandro grech
Today, 19:41
dear Mr Gatt I am not much of a politician but we all know that Dr Sant was the only man to give a facelift to Bugibba . Tourism industry in Bugibba you killed with lack of info structure .
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120515/local/gatt-explains-road-building-problems.419929
I know Alan.
I know Saviour.
I know who I believe regarding this matter, as you probably do too, Daphne.
Balzan thinks the world revolves aroung him. Well, so do the people he employs.
Please, Daphne, please, your wits are good enough not to waste your time on SALVU L-OMIXXENTI. Why don’t we all try to relax in better ways, keeping as far as possible from allowing trivial minds to annoy us?
Ah, true to a minor degree but it is always wise to know what your enemies are up to and to ignore them may be interpreted as giving them credence.
Even the Maltese saying “L-iskiet risposta” can be modified according to circumstance to read, “Is-skiet risposta – ghal min ma jafx ititha”.
Daphne certainly knows when and how to respond to Saviour and his ilk.
Thanks for replying. And no you are not sounding sceptical; you are right.