Someone once asked Picasso why he was a communist.

He said listen son, when you are as rich as I am, you can be whatever you want.

Not if Toni Abela has anything to say about it!

The point of revising the minister’s code of ethics is to retroactively justify such behaviour. No doubt it will also cover the fact that Keith Allen Schembri still owns and runs considerable businesses.

Yes, it does. The objective is not to deprive sitting ministers of additional remuneration, but to ensure that they focus on their ministerial work.

Is this a case in which the Minister has transferred his office to Mater Dei to check on the hospital staff and breathe down their neck, but then he spends work hours doing his constituency work in Zebbug?

I can vouch for this. I am the owner. The Health Centre and our Pharmacy are two separate entities. We just share a building.

Contrary to what has been reported, since his appointment, Dr.Farrugia has not been seeing clients/patients in what used to be his clinic. He private practice has been taken over by two GPs’.