“Jahasra give them a chance msieken they’re still settling down u ejja it’s only until they find their feet”
Joseph Muscat has been prime minister for around five weeks, during which time he has been largely invisible and inaudible except for the obligatory constitutional ceremonies – presumably on the understanding that now he is safely installed at the Auberge de Castille, he has no further pressing need to communicate with us every day and we can all go hang ourselves while he strikes deals (in the national interest, of course) with his chief of staff Keith Schembri and a bunch of land reclamation and power station sharks.
Meanwhile, his largely sorry troupe of ministers has been making the news for quite the wrong reasons. Police, Army, Justice and Broadcasting Minister Manuel Mallia was completely unaware last Monday afternoon that an important delegation from the International Maritime Rescue Federation, led by its CEO, was expected at his office.
He left the building even as journalists began to arrive in response to an invitation from the army, leaving them baffled.
As the journalists stood at a loss in the Strait Street ministry doorway, together with the army top brass and the IMRF delegation and CEO, one of those types you get wandering along the street decided that since ‘issa l-power taghhom’, he would barge in confidently and insult the press, which is exactly what he did.
When they’d been hanging around in the entrance hall for 20 minutes already, the embarrassed army officials took it upon themselves to do what they could to minimise the already excruciating embarrassment and briefed the press as well as they could – still standing around in the ministry hallway because they weren’t allowed beyond the reception desk and not a single one of Manuel Mallia’s copious number of aides had the good manners, presence of mind or basic decency to invite them up to the boardroom and keep them distracted with coffee.
The Police, Army, Justice and Broadcasting Minister turned up an hour later, looking bewildered because apparently, not one of those aides had bothered to ring him and alert him to the situation in his hallway. Visibly cross and flustered, he led everyone up to his office, where he talked bollocks about ‘welcome to sunny Malta, island of sunshine, blah blah blah’ for a couple of minutes, then sent the press away with empty notebooks and no apology.
What unbelievable amateurism – doesn’t Manuel Mallia understand that this, and not turning up unexpectedly at the prisons on a Sunday night to surprise the warders, is his actual job as a cabinet minister?
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-04-15/news/former-one-tv-ceo-to-be-named-pbs-chairman-1397948417/
What was it Jane Marshall said during the taghna lkoll video? ‘Jiena nemmen f’Joseph ghax Joseph……’
TVM will become the insipid, apologetic channel it once was, carnations, cart wheels and cactus.
It is already in that state.
http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=L%2Dewwel+jitlobhom+jirri%26%23380%3Benjaw%2C+imbag%26%23295%3Bad+jirtira+t%2Dtalba&t=a&aid=99846385&cid=19
The coconut’s turning out to be a massive communications breakdown.
Has this been reported anywhere else from here?
[Daphne – http://www.independent.com.mt]
The skiving warders have not been suspended and above all now they have to see whether they were on time-in-lieu.
Couldn’t that have been checked before going out with the news that they were skiving?
And if they were on unauthorised absence why weren’t they suspended pending invesitgation? Why did he accept the director’s resignation before the outcome of the internal investigation?
Because he already has a replacement in mind.
2 not 1
Because they are Labour supporters so they can do whatever they want.
Manwel was late because he was busy checking the political allegiances of the absent prison warders.
That’s what you get when amateurs take the job.
Heqq, x’tistenna minn gvern laburist. Fi kliem Sant – bazwar l’hemm u bazwar l’hawn u nimxu.
Gvern tat-tbazwir.
L-“arroganza” tan-nazjonalisti ma felhuhiex u dejqithom. Mur obsor.
It should have been his chief of staff, Silvio Scerri, who was rapped, not the chief of the army.
Will Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia throw in the towel or carrying on trying to cope?
Will we now be witnessing the minister’s resignation for not being on the job, and especially, for not knowing he was expected to be there? Or is it only the small fry he catches off guard who are expected to resign?
Gvern ta’ amateurs, voluntiera, u bikkejja.
For all his posing, he is just as incompetent and a bumbling fool as the rest of them.