Miss Boffa gets her iced bun

Published: April 30, 2013 at 12:39am

Lara Boffa

Lara Boffa (see Labour billboard and rewind to several Labour tents in the election campaign) has got her iced bun. She’s been appointed to the Enemalta Corporation board.

And the other billboard stars?

Audrey Harrison got let down over the Police Commissioner business. Husband Neil didn’t get the job. So hang on in there for this MEPA officer to be whizz-banged through the ranks.

Finding an iced bun for that weirdo Albert Gauci Cunningham is going to be difficult. I’ll bet they’re still scratching their heads over that one.

Frederick Testa has been made head of drama at PBS, which effectively means a salary for choosing which soap operas to buy in from private production houses.




37 Comments Comment

  1. Joe Malti says:

    ha ha ha … saw this coming!

  2. Pups says:

    So from being a customer care representative and being a bore when talking during the electoral campaign, she gets to be a director on the board of the state energy corporation, at a time when the system is changing in ways that we are not quite sure about.

    Alison Zerafa, a teacher, has been appointed to the Transport Malta board.

    M’hemmx serjeta.

    • Qeghdin Sew says:

      Sitting on the help desk and assigning support tickets to the right team, more like.

    • Jozef says:

      Who’s Alison Zerafa?

      • winwood says:

        She is the sister of Lydia Abela,who is married to the President’s son, and currently a high official of P.L. X’tistenna? Ic- cejca jafu lil min ghandhom iqassmuha

      • Vince says:

        Alison Zerafa is a sister to Darlene Zerafa, private secretary to Presidebt Abela, and to Lydia Abela (nee Zerafa), the president’s daughter-in-law and a Labour Party official. Alison is also mayor of the Labour led Cospicua Local Council.

      • Last Post says:

        = Sister to Lydia (now Abela) wife of Robert, the president’s son;
        = new mayor (Labour) of Cospicua (Bormla);
        = member of an avid Labour family;
        = her other sister (? name) chairs the (president’s) Community Chest Fun(d) …
        = L-ahwa kollha saru nies bis-sahha ta’ politika edukattiva mwettqa mill-Partit Nazzjonalista fil-Gvern.

      • Jozef says:

        Why do I ask?

    • Last Post says:

      Pups, you say she was a customer care representative, but on the billboards she was presented to us (presented herself?) as a “Business Process Re-engineer”.

      Do you mean this BPR thing is a euphemism for a customer care representative (a mobile telephone operator?)?

      Could her appointment mean we’re about to see a re-engineering of the Arriva transport system?

      • Qeghdin Sew says:

        “Pups, you say she was a customer care representative, but on the billboards she was presented to us (presented herself?) as a ‘Business Process Re-engineer’.”

        That crossed my mind when I read this, this morning. They’ll say Enemalta could do with some BPR. Pity the corporation already has at least one experienced professional in its employ.

      • ciccio says:

        Last Post, the Business Process Re-Engineer is Lara Boffa, who now sits on the Enemalta Board.

        As a Business Process Re-Engineer, she must have given Joseph Muscat a solution to change (read: re-engineer) the role of a customer care officer to a directorship on the Board.

      • Last Post says:

        Ciccio, that reminds of ‘musical chairs’ with job descriptions and power-wielding opportunities for wannabes in re-engineered companies.

      • Jozef says:

        There is no such thing as a re-engineer.

      • Pups says:

        The BPR is what she wanted to be when she worked at customer care but then got the sack. Hence, her bitterness which led to having her promote PL during the campaign.

    • Ex-colleague says:

      Get your facts right little Pups. She held a managerial post. An ex-colleague.

  3. Qeghdin Sew says:

    Pardon my French and you can call me an uncouth, ineloquent troglodyte. But the only reaction I can muster is “X’iz-zobb?!”.

    Seriously, x’iz-zobb?!

    • Josette says:

      Don’t worry. In France they’d understand you :) Seriously, the Z… has become part of the French vocabulary.

  4. percita says:

    Who is next?
    Kenneth Zammit Tabona
    Kevin Drake
    Raymond Pitre
    William Mangion

    • Min Jaf says:

      The list is seemingly endless.

      New non-executive positions in non-existing boards carrying just a title and a remuneration must be set up.

      Most of the remaining reward-entitled individuals will thus be appointed to a newly set up board the purpose of which is to consult broadly on the best means of setting up the non-existing boards made up of non-executive positions to reward all those not yet suitably rewarded or who, by dint of family or other relationships with said rewardees, might consider themselves entitled to some form of public recognition at the expense of the taxpayer.

      Meantime, in the real world, the country and its economy will continue to go to the dogs.

    • winwood says:

      And that old fart Privitera

  5. The Sting says:

    Is Kenneth Zammit Tabona still standing in line? Tsk tsk.

  6. gil says:

    What is wrong with that? I have just been appointed Head of NASA.

  7. Toni says:

    As an ordinary citizen, I am still waiting to vote for board members as was promised.

  8. Alexander Ball says:

    How much per year is this worth please?

  9. Qeghdin Sew says:

    http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130430/local/social-solidarity-ministry-consultants-include-toni-abela-yana-mintoff.467718

    “PL candidate Yana Mintoff […] is providing consultancy on poverty.”

    Fuq it-tonn taż-żejt għaddejja, daqs dak faqar li qed tgħix fih mindu wirtet lil missierha.

  10. L.Gatt says:

    “Yana Mintoff,- providing consultancy on the policy on poverty.” What can one say?

  11. Indri says:

    You forgot Willie Mangion. He’ll soon be appointed chairman of Maltasong.

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