A couple of cheapskates
Manuel Mallia’s skivvies take water from public fountains in the capital city, and now I’ve taken a look at the newly published electoral roll and discovered that Jose Herrera lives on St Christopher Street, Valletta.
Except that he doesn’t. He lives at home elsewhere with his wife and children.
So why is his identity card registered on a Valletta address? Could it be – horrors – because he can’t afford to pay to park his car there (ghax Gonzi qatilna bil-guh) and has hit on a Cunning Plan to get the free parking to which residents of Valletta are entitled?
You know, the way lots of people who live in Sliema, Swieqi, Madliena, Hal Lija, H’ Attard and Hal Balzan switched their registered address to their Gozo holiday home so as not to have to pay the ferry fare which would, presumably, have bankrupted them.
Maaaa, x’qamel. If you can’t be good-looking, for God’s sake at least try having some style.
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Mintoffjani.
Otherwise he wouldn’t afford to keep a wife.
So what connection do you need to have to an address to have the ID registered there?
Can I use Castille as my address?
I believe that many people, who used to travel during the Mintoffian regime, had to fill a departure card and one of the questions asked was residence in Malta and abroad.
Many times I wrote Buckingham Palace as my London address and nobody queried this information.
To my knowledge if your car doesn’t remain parked in Valletta at night for a number of consecutive days you lose your Valletta Resident status. Might be interesting to see if this applies.
What if you work night shifts?
I doubt the car is the reason though.
The way the Controlled Vehicular Access system in Valletta works, if a vehicle registered to a resident does not stay within the zone for at least 15 nights in a month, the system will automatically reclassify it as a normal vehicle which is liable to pay the regular rate. So unless someone spots his grey BMW convertible frequently parked there at night, the possibility of him being registered there for that purpose is remote.
Actually, what he would need to do that is a garage. That would entitle him to a license disc with a “G”, which would allow him to park the car inside the garage and not pay CVA.
With the introduction of CVA, one would be exempted from paying the fee only if the vehicle sleeps inside the CVA area for, at least, 15 or 20 nights (not sure) per month. it used to be linked to the address in the old system.
He must have other reasons as the CVA monitors the nights slept in Valletta not the address… di plot tikins.
To be able to vote on that district?
The Bystander is the only one who got it right.
It’s the vote, stupid.
Baqalek zmien ghall-psychedelic coloured ties, Mallia. U dik it-tazza ilma minn fejn imlejtha ?
Does anyone know if the CVA regulation that a car of a Valletta resident has to spend a minimum of 15 nights in town, is actually enforced ?
Very simple really. He has another car registerd in his name….ghax qas ghandu biex jixtri karozza ohra u jtiha lil xi hadd joqghod idur biha.
Herrera lives in Sliema – I think Borg Olivier Street.
No.
Is it the case that the St. Christopher Street property is on lease as a residence?
If this is the case, then maybe he keeps that address registered to protect his interests against those of the landlord.
There you go, safe for business.
No, Herrera does not live in Sliema. He lives round the corner from my mum’s, in a house which used to belong to the late Anton Buttigieg.
Claudio Grech is registered in Valletta as well.
Maybe they know something we don’t.