Labour Party CEO James Piscopo to be new chairman of Transport Malta
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March 21, 2013 at 3:26pm
James Piscopo, CEO of the Malta Labour Party
James Piscopo, who for the last four years or so has been CEO of the Labour Party, having moved there from Air Malta which has kept his job open for him, is to be the new chairman of Transport Malta.
Piscopo was taken on a familiarisation tour of the Transport Malta office building today.
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Meritokrazija kien qal Franco
Correction: Ex-CEO
Meritocracy and Taghna Lkoll….they said one day….
taghna lkoll! taghna lkoll! taghna lkoll!
Erm, weren’t these posts supposed to be filled in full consultation with the public?
Sure. They consulted James Piscopo, being part of the public and he gladly accepted.
Exactly
I think, I had heard Karmenu Vella on Bondi+ state that chairpersons will be elected by the people using online methods.
I think they already forgot all their promises, not that I was very keen with this one in particular being implemented.
probably they are only using these online methods at the MLP house of glass and ONE TV
That’s interesting! Any hint where and when he said it?
It was in their manifesto.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130321/local/pl-s-ceo-resigns.462412
“The pound of flesh which I demand of him Is deerely bought, ’tis mine, and I will have it”
Shylock – Merchant of Venice
We will all be seeing the redefinition of the words according to the Mintoffian Dictionary.
Freedom of speech means that the PL can say whatever IT wants.
Malta Taghna ilkoll means Malta kollha tal-Laburisti.
Meritokrazija means Min mhux maghna kontra taghna.
So now to get a push in the queue, the ministers are having their offices at the major area of operation.
Dr. Farrugia at Mater Dei reception, Konrad Mizzi at Delimara Power Station – at this rate Joseph’s office will be at the gym.
An office in a cancer factory?
Wait… didn’t Joseph Muscat say that we have to vote on who takes up these positions?
When was this election?
Where was the ballot box hidden? Was it held on the 4th floor at an undisclosed date and time?
Taghna ukoll!
haha just check who the PA to the chairmain will be , kindly check his qualifications , woolaa meritocracy!
I cry. TM is one of those places which really requires an even more technical direction than anything else. I am crying. It has really gone to the dogs now.
Why? Hasn’t it been completely shit for the last few years already?
Yes, but there is still another bottom level to reach.
Taghna biss
WIll the job at AirMalta remain open and reserved for him during the next five years, as a precaution?
Pre election LP slogan: “I wish to live in a country where it’s not who you know, but what you know!” Obviously they weren’t referring to Malta. What a joke…and this barely a week in government
Could be “what you know about who you know” …
OK so in the first week PL is already delivering on meritocracy in senior civil service positions:
Proof 1. Head of Civil Service and PPS Dr Godwin Grima replaced by Mario Cutajar – ex GWU
Proof 2. Permanent Representative Marlene Bonnici who quickly moved up the ranks of civil service under a PN government (which presumably did not believe in meritocracy), was quickly retained by Joseph Muscat (another proof of meritocracy under PL !! )
Proof 3. Chairman Transport Malta replaced by ex CEO of Labour Party James Piscopo
U tghidu Labour doesn’t deliver? Malta taghna lkoll.
Next please?
You forgot JPO as chairman of MCST.
For them, it was the PN only who delivered.
Sure..the PN definitely delivered – to the few ‘hbieb tal-hbieb’!!!
I actually pity all those who voted PN but did not get something from under the table….as that would have been the only reason to vote for them in this election. I pity them for not knowing exactly what went on and who got paid what in the last 5 years :)
[Daphne – What an unbelievably stupid comment. People like you make me despair.]
Shame on you, Mark, for voting Labour, and for doing so – presumably – for what you “could get”. What a shit attitiude. Your reap what you sow, as they say. What are a few (thousand) extra Euros (and unfairly gained ones at that) when compared to the peace of mind we had under PN?
Daphne,
It’s people like you who should consider what stupid comments are written and not those who voted Labour. Enough was enough for everyone, and 35,107 votes + 1,500 (ex PN Majority) are not a casual swing, but for the size of Malta, it is a huge swing. Give time to the new government to deliver, he has 5 years to fulfil what your GonziPN did not in 9 years (I’m only counting Gonzi’s years – not to say 25 years of PN Administration).
[Daphne – ‘Enough was enough for everyone’. Because we were having such a rough ride, right? Even the BBC was somehow able to slip in a sarcastic remark about the economy having no relevance in the Maltese general election. That’s what happens when you raise generation after generation in magical thinking and squash all rational thought in favour of religious indoctrination and general mindlessness.]
Fundamental freedoms and basic economic security are all the grounding you need, Mark Mallia.
If you’re entrepreneurial, you won’t depend on government contracts.
If you’re not, you can still work in the private sector. But that’s only because the economic conditions for doing so are there. They weren’t created by magic.
No matter what Chris Cardona thinks, an economy has to be developed and managed.
Mela issa zgur ghal gol-hajt
I’m remembering that poster on meritocracy. Pure bull.
But why?
She got the post of Board member if the Justice Reform Commission. Mhux ghax nemmen fil-meritokrazija?
A government run by Super One and the residents of the glass house…
TVHemm magically pulled off the air…
The Broadcasting Authority “mistakenly” asked to resign…
The “not for public distribution” version of the ‘manifest’ is well underway.
Issa l-arriva minflok tasal tard, tiehdok gol-hajt.
Are we surprised? No all the hefty salaries that lejber was paying will now be burdened by the state, which means by you and me. Malta taghhom biss. Disgusting government stinking in filth and deceit
I wonder what his salary is going to be?
Gass mal-pjanca, dritt go hajt
He must have worked quite a lot for Joseph Muscat to get elected as Mexxej tal-PL during his working hours while he was still at AirMalta… meritocracy and duty to our national ailing airline at its best
An arriviste to lead TRANSPORT Malta? OK, maybe he hasn’t arrived yet.
Hadn’t Karmenu Vella explained that the PL would hold some sort of an on-line election for individuals to be ‘elected’ to these posts? Bdejna…….
VERU MALTA TAGHNA LKOLL.
Mark Portelli, Chairman of the WHOLE of Transport Malta, including Maritime, cost the tax payer a grand total of Eur7,000 per annum. James Piscopo is costing us Eur80,000. In Dr Muscat’s words. “Value for money”. Oops.
Ask Ramona Frendo – ghax hi temmen fil-meritokrazija. Isn’t that what she said on her Labour billboard? I think she meant ‘ipokrizija’.
To add insult to injury, some false reporting from none other then The Times. They don’t even bother to investigate. What incompetent losers.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130322/local/piscope-is-tm-s-new-ceo.462483
Transport Malta will not have a CEO responsible for the running of the authority and a chairman to act as the political interlocutor anymore. It will just have an executive chairman.
Also, if you study closely the ministerial portfolios, TM will be under three different ministers not just one by the looks of it. Only God knows why.