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Beautiful.

Not in keeping with a baroque mannerist walled city.

And what, pray, are we to do with St.Paul’s, the Scot’s, Evans, the Camarata, the courts, the market, the gunposts, Vincenti, Ferreria, need I go on?

Do you even know what mannerism implies?

Ever been to a walled city? Bit of a contradiction in terms is it? Time to read Valletta as the city centre. Please.

Cairoesque gaping hole? Surely you meant Luxor.

If you can’t distinguish between ramparts designed to deflect cannon fire and Egyptian problems with loading so be it.

Piano restores the bastions and aligns the geometry and all you do is read off your ladybird.

The only real problem to be resolved is that ruddy burger joint protruding out in stages.

Unless you think that’s fine for tourists walking into the city. Even because we’re not allowed sightseeing.

I despair.

For the same reason that covered stadiums need vast air conditioning systems. And that the Manoel becomes unbearably hot from May to October. Giving rise to many a hot flush.

When I see a bad decision I will be the first to point it out. Five years ago we had Clyde Puli taking his familiy to China for the Olympics and the same Clyde Puli together with our Prime Minister presenting to us the White Rocks Project which was rather a still born White Elephant.

Ministers have to be good listeners to their advisors (Civil servants) and leave their personal opinions for themselves.

What qualifications did Anton Tabone have to run the Gozo Ministry? I tell you; “He always wore a suite, that’s all.”

On a global scale:” What were ex-Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan’s qualifications , or George W Bush’s to be made Presidents of the US of A?Popularity perhaps.

Carmelo Abela works as some glorified clerk with HSBC and he answers to someone who’s less qualified than he is. Where does that leave us?

GO preferred to leave Mizzi where he was because probably he was busy with his parliamentary work.I’ve seen this happening because I work in the private sector.

While at it I can tell you that GO had one of it’s executives who did bloody nothing except watch football in his office . he was the head of the Malta Football supporters. By your standards he should be prime minister if he got elected.

Like everybody else Minister Joe Mizzi will make gaffes and mistakes and we’ll be there watching over him.But he’s no stupid guy as you’re trying to depict him.

I bet my bottom dollar that the majority of parliamentarians are not able to start to understand his specialisation subject, let alone be a radio officer.

Personally I’m more afraid of DOCTOR Konrad Mizzi who is qualified in IT and posing to be a hands on expert on LNG power station projects.There’s the real danger, because other qualified ENEMALTA engineers will give him enough rope to hang himself(and us with him) if he crosses them.

We have in parliament university graduates who cheated to get their degrees, who cheated their clients and who were arrogant with people.

Don’t try depicting Mr Mizzi as someone stupid; he’s a hands on qualified person.

He’s the technical guy who designed the transmission of the then Super One radio without the need of expensive big antennas. One Radio’s reception is one of the best in Malta. One can listen to it from places like Marsalforn from where other stations have a poor signal.

So give the devil his due and let him learn the ropes. He’s an intelligent guy.

[Daphne – No he isn’t, Gahan. The state telecommunications company, where he was an employee, offloaded him onto a publicly listed company in which it had a shareholding as soon as it could. That was more than 12 years ago. He has been there ever since, and does little more than general dogsbody work. Had he been truly worth his salt he would have been headhunted or have moved on of his own volition. Aside from which, you cannot say that somebody has what it takes to run a government ministry because he’s a good radio technician. Nor should a government minister ‘learn the ropes’. The running of the Maltese state is not a training ground for people who want to cut their teeth on something meaty.]

It is clearly obvious that Piano was asked to build a much needed parliament which befits a democratic country in the for the 21st century, so that the Presidential Palace is vacated and we will have a proper showcase for our heritage from the knights period.So far so good.

Knowing Gonzi by his deeds,I guess that he wanted to ‘clean up’ the Valletta entrance and gave a free hand to Piano to do the job at a cost. My question at the time was “Can we have an explanation by Architect Piano why the theatre does not provide shelter for the audience and the performers?”

We got a reply in the media that a roof costs a lot of money because one has to create expensive supports to hold such a big roof.

To be sincere I understand that if a roof is fitted , then the whole concept of the design will fall to pieces, because then people like KZT will ask for the side walls and then the sound system has to be redesigned together with the lighting system and the chairs could have been less expensive and we will have the never ending saga started again.

So yes it all boils down to money, Gonzi never gave anyone an open cheque. He showed us that, from day one with the Mater Dei project.

Because they did not have the technology and knowhow to cover it.

Do you at least agree that Joe Mizzi is at the far end of the scale?

Why appoint a minister for that?