Daphne : If I`m not mistaken that man is Dennis Busuttil and at the moment he have an insurance agency at St. Joseph High str Hamrun.

Perhaps it is also time for the PN to stop using victims of violence for their own political propaganda? That indeed is shabby!

[Daphne – Get a grip, Joseph Carmel. Here we’re talking about a prime minister telling one of his ministers to be careful, because another minister might call in somebody to have him shot. Lovely. You’re really desperate if you’re even trying to justify that kind of situation. Malta under Mintoff was great, you say – meanwhile, I didn’t see you popping back from Australia to actually live here.]

mhux isaqsi l siehbek Efa xsar minhu ? dak kien habib sew tijaw sahansitra tah mahfra presidenzjali!

Oh, by the way, getting a lot of stick at work because I compared Mintoffs funeral to De Mille’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth”. (complete with the forthcoming trainwreck).

I had been coming here to Malta intermittently since 1978 and married in 79.

At the time I remember seeing him on some tacky game shows on XandirMalta (for some unknown reason with my memory bank I recall he doled out a crate of Dr. Pepper} and, subsequently, according to my ex RAF friends who were based at Luqa he was employed at BFBS Radio or Rediffusion.

Although he’s not a politician as such and on checking through your index there were very few references to him apart from the occasional possibly dodgy freebie cruises.

What’s his connection with this shabby crew? Sorry to be slightly off topic. It’s just that for somebody that used to broadcast to the British Forces and that possibly, I assume, had British connections, it seems somewhat surreal.

[Daphne – Norman Hamilton hosts a show on the Labour Party’s televison station. He also owns a travel agency which specialises in cruises. But he remains best known for his connections to the Labour Party or, as you put it, “this shabby crew”.]

Jew it-tghajjir li taqla’ ghax ommok ma tibghatekx skola dakinhar tal-Imnarja.

Kien dak il-mument deciziv li biddilt l-iskola, u dan l-episodju baqa’ trawmatiku ghalija.

Hsibt li hlist u li se nitghallem bla xkiel, imma dak il-baghal ta’ KMB, ghalqilna l-iskola, u kien ikolli nitghallem bil-mohbi.

Is-soddisfazzjon li hassejt x’hin il-marmalja sikkitniha b’rebha elettorali fl-1987, ma ninsih qatt, kemm qbizt, avolja kont ‘kannol bla krema’. Ghalhekk ma ninsih qatt dak iz-zmien, biex meta nkun bil-vot f’idejja nahseb fih u fil-gejjieni ta’ uliedi.

On the 21s September 1975 there were battle scenes in Valletta. MLP supporters and policemen wielding truncheons attacked a peaceful PN demonstration commemorating the 11th anniversary of Malta’s Independence. Dr Albert Borg Olivier de Puget, a PN MP and Dr Joe Cachia, a PN candidate were hit, the latter needing 6 stitches. The police also attacked a certain Mr Baldacchino from Qormi and a Mr Incorovaja, a chiropodist whilst well-known labour supporters, including a certain Pappalardo, tried to set fire to the jeep at the front of the demonstration. Dr Guido Demarco was also hit by police truncheons. Dennis Busuttil was 17 at the time. He was hit on the head by an iron rod and ended up in hospital in danger of losing his life. In fact, he was operated upon for the removal of a piece of bone from his brain.