Comments on: The clue to the purpose and status of permanent secretaries is in their name https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:11:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Baggio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-923086 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:11:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-923086 In reply to Sasha.

That’s what they should have done. PSs are not part of Minister’s Secretariat or political appointees like Chairmen and Board members. Anyone who hasn’t tendered his resignation and is dismissed has grounds for unfair dismissal.

Back to the 80s it seems.

]]> By: Francis Saliba MD https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-923035 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:23:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-923035 Reminds me of the “bad” old days that we were promised had gone for ever but that are evidently again sadly upon us and with a vengeance!

In a court case I had instituted against the then acting Commissioner of Police for perjury, in Mintoff’s time, my key witness was warned by the AG lawyer not to repeat in open court the damning truthful evidence that he had given before the Public Service Commission or else disciplinary action would be taken against him. The flabbergasted witness asked “Disciplinary action for what?” to which the incredible answer was “Never mind! We will find something!”

Evidently the not-so-permanent Permanent Secretaries were threatened with a similar Mafia style “offer that they couldn’t refuse”!

That is how “Malta Taghna Lkoll” is working out in practice in the first two weeks after the general election.

]]> By: Baggio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-921931 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:04:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-921931 In reply to Min Jaf.

By requesting the parliamentary secretaries’ resignations, they are requesting total submission from the civil service. It’s not all about being a yes man. Shades of Mintoffian tactics in castrating the civil service.

]]> By: Sasha https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-920470 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:33:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-920470 I doubt that some Permanent Secretaries handed in their resignation. I believe they didn’t and were removed anyway, but they aren’t speaking out. This is even more concerning.

]]> By: Baggio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-920374 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:49:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-920374 It is the norm in such appointments, Permanent Secretaries,.CEOs, Chairmen etc to also publish a short bio and CV of the appointee.

Am I missing something?

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-920035 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:38:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-920035 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

How right you are, Bubu, how right you are. That has always been the Maltese way. Too slow to react, if at all. What a shitty lickspittle country. And we wanted EU membership?

]]> By: Infurmat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-919768 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:00:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-919768 In reply to A.Attard.

Mr Attard, if the Constitution does not contemplate that permanent secretaries should hand in their resignation after a change in administration than to me it is illegal for them to have been asked to do so. Is this why, according to media reports, the request to them was made verbally?

According to media reports, I also understand that not all permanent secretaries chose to resign but it seems that those who did not ask to resign got kicked out anyway. Is this legal? Don’t think so…….it looks to me to be a very dangerous precedent indeed this perm secs issue.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-919467 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:41:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-919467 In reply to infurmat.

We need to know the involvement of the President of the Republic in this.

Did he or did he not ask for the removal of the Permanent Secretaries in accordance with the Constitution?

Did Mario Cutajar presume a right which belongs to the President and acted in a role of the President of the Republic?

Did Mario Cutajar act as the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Public Service Commission in one person when demanding the resignation and in removing the Permanent Secretaries?

Is this a serious violation of the Constitution of Malta at the very top of the government where leadership by example is necessary?

]]> By: A.Attard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-919454 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:35:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-919454 In reply to infurmat.

The permanent secretaries resigned because they were asked to do so, but in the end they chose to resign so there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional there.

The permanent secretaries could have chosen not to resign but they were made of straw.

Except for three all the resignations were accepted, those three must be experts in the art of brown-nosing.

]]> By: infurmat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/the-clue-to-the-purpose-and-status-of-permanent-secretaries-is-in-their-name/#comment-919428 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:26:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=30651#comment-919428 Corrections: INFURMAT change ‘parliamentary’ to ‘permanent secretary’ in first sentence and ‘parliamentary’ to ‘permanent’ in second sentence.

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