The Labour media: from lousy to laughable

Published: May 20, 2012 at 1:38pm

Just look at this, how very pathetic – always bearing in mind that this is the news website staffed and run by the government-in-waiting.

Richard Cachia Caruana lives in Mdina (no ‘I’, Maltastar). Francis Zammit Dimech (or rather, his car) was seen entering Mdina this morning. Ergo, Francis Zammit Dimech and Richard Cachia Caruana had a secret meeting.

Because nobody else lives in Mdina and there are no coffee-shops, restaurants or events.

It was a very short meeting, because Zammit Dimech entered Mdina at 11.05am (the Labour Party appears to have a spy with a good watch) and Cachia Caruana was seen leaving Mdina at 11.15am.

Zammit Dimech wasn’t seen leaving, so wait for a story from Maltastar, later on today, suggesting that Cachia Caruana locked him up in a cellar to prevent him attending this week’s sittings of parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

If they carry on like this, they’re going to bore the pants off us all. Their target audience of ‘yunk peepil’ are switching off in droves already.

MALTASTAR

FZD AND RCC AT IMDINA ON SUNDAY MORNING

Sunday, 20 May 2012, 11:55

At 11.05 on Sunday morning car with the letters FZD on its number plate entered Imdina where Malta’s EU Permanent Representative Richard Cachia Caruana resides. The Chairman of the Foreign and European Affairs Committee (FEAC) is MP Francis Zammit Dimech who also has car with FZD on its number plate. At 11.15am Cachia Caruana was seen leaving Imdina.

The two have denied meeting at the Westin Hotel in St Julian’s before a meeting of the FEAC which is to question Cachia Caruana on his role in bypassing parliament when Malta’s membership of the Partnership for Peace was reactivated four years ago.




16 Comments Comment

  1. Mary mhux Mifsud says:

    This is harassment by a ‘bicca’ website. Is Evarist Bartolo still involved with Maltastar? Imagine what will happen when (I am starting to think ‘if’ actually) they are in charge of the police and the sikrit servis.

  2. Martin says:

    Wrong about “Imdina”. Strictly speaking, it should be “L-Imdina” in any language as the article is an integral part of the name (something like “the Hague”) but if it is dropped, the phonetic “i” is still required. Don’t make the same mistake you made with “irkotta”.

    [Daphne – You have made exactly the same mistake made by those who call it Istrina. It’s Strina. The ‘i’ comes from the use of the definite article and in fact, it should be in lower case and not upper case. L-iStrina. L-iskola. L-iMdina. Strina, skola, Mdina. In English: the Medina, but more usually Mdina. Irkotta is different. The noun actually is – if you’re not properly educated – irkotta, which is a corruption of rikotta. The ‘i’ does not come from the definite article.]

  3. Angus Black says:

    Not a word of several which came to mind reading the above would be printable here.

    They’ve been lobotomised.

  4. Stanley J A Clews says:

    Was FZD hidden in the luggage boot of RCC’s car leaving Mdina?

  5. mac says:

    Labour cannot sink any lower. What do they think of the Maltese people’s IQ level? If they continue like this, the only way now is down, not up.

  6. Minn jaf says:

    FZD mar ikecci lil-RCC mid-dar? Ma nahsibx.

    RCC inhasad meta ra lil FZD diehel l-Mdina, u telaq jigri l-barra? Ma nahsibx.

    Tal-MaltaStar ma ghandhomx biex jimlew il-pagni taghhom? Mid-dehra.

    Tal-MaltaStar ma jsarrfu xejn? Certament.

    • ciccio says:

      It was not clear if RCC left Mdina in a car.

      If he did, he may have tied up Francis Zammit Dimech, gagged him, shoved him in the car-boot and, unaware of Maria L-Maws’s secret agents at each gate to the city, drove off to some undisclosed location to deal with him.

      The plot thickens. More updates on Maltastar and Super One later.

  7. Mercury Rising says:

    F’hanut tat-te dalghodu zaghzugh liebes pulit kien qieghed jitkellem ma’ siehbu u qal, “Jien nivvota Labour ghax ghandi principji Laburisti.”

    Qabez xih min fuq mejda ohra u qal (lil-hanut kollu) “Mela ivvota lin-Nazzjonalisti, ghax huma iktar xellugin.”

    Though the exchange was particularly entertaining, I could not but feel bewildered at the idea of “principji” and Labour being used in the same sentence.

  8. Anthony Briffa says:

    As far as I know, only the residents can drive their cars in and out of Mdina.

    Can somebody correct me or confirm my understanding on this matter?

    If I am right, how could Dr. Zammit Dimech enter Mdina with his car with number plate FZD.

    [Daphne – You can get permission to drive in, if you are not a resident.]

    • Anthony Briffa says:

      I cannot imagine Dr. Zammit Dimech going to the trouble of requesting permission to enter Mdina for a 10-minute meeting with RCC and then nobody sees him leaving. This is absurd and in my opinion is another case of libel, given the circumstances.

  9. Lomax says:

    Frankly, this account proves quite the opposite: that the two didn’t meet.

    Seriously, if FZD was spotted entering Mdina at 11:05, he had to park and actually walk to RCC’s residence which would have taken at least five more minutes, given that parking within the city is not really a breeze.

    So the two would have supposedly met at 11:10. but wait, RCC was seen leaving Mdina at 11:15, so he must have left home earlier than 11.15.

    Conclusion: either the two had the shortest meeting in the history of short meetings or else they didn’t meet at all.

    Yet another conclusion to be drawn is that FZD is not even entitled to go to Mdina now. It is an out-of-bounds city for him. We’re sorry, Francis, no more coffees at Fontanella for you.

    Oh come on, for crying out loud. How low can they stoop?

  10. Sowerberry says:

    I was under the impression that FZD does not drive as he does not have a driver’s licence.

    Even so, would he use a car with a “personalised” number plate to go to a secret ten-minute meeting? Shades of the “meeting” at the Westin.

  11. Lomax says:

    Now that I think about it, I do not think that people’s number plates can be reported to readers at large. I do not know whether the DPA actually prohibits it (since whoever spotted FZD is not a data controller in the sense of the law) but certainly, I think it is really very unethical to give these details away.

    Daphne, you have not spoken about Joseph’s number-plate, even though you have spoken on his having a flashy car, have you? Is it only me, or is it really in extremely bad taste?

    [Daphne – I don’t have a problem with discussing number-plates, and I’m not quite sure that the number-plates of public persons are private.]

    • john says:

      If someone goes out of their way – spends money – to obtain personalised number plates, making a public display of their initials on their car, drawing attention to themselves whenever they journey, I think they are hardly in a position to complain about public comment.

      I find it a constant source of amusement and distraction, whilst in traffic, to conjure up names for the occupants of cars around me, based on their number plates.

  12. elephant says:

    “RCC bypassed Parliamenr”, they said. But RCC is NOT accountable to Parliament. He is accountable to the prime minister. That is the crux of the matter.

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