You’re in government now, boys
The Casino di Venezia’s operating licence has been suspended because the company has no money and so hasn’t paid its licence dues. The jobs of its 67 employees are at risk.
Edward Zammit Lewis, the parliamentary secretary for competitiveness – and why is he the one dealing with this? – told the press: “This is a problem we inherited and it has been coming for years.”
For God’s sake, Zammit Lewis. This is not a problem you inherited. This is a problem you face. The financial troubles of a casino are not something your predecessors in government created for you to inherit.
You are now in the business of government. The days of blaming, criticising and carping at others are gone. You have a problem. It’s yours to deal with. So deal with it.
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As suspected, a new government of money-grubbing ‘no hopers’. Useless, incompetent, and dangerous.
The blame game will carry on for the next five years.
Alfred Sant and Alfred Mifsud also started with the rhetoric about the deficit, and that the budget cannot be implemented as proposed. Hofra, hofra, hofra.
The new government needs an excuse so as not to deliver the crazy pledges they promised before the election.
It is 1996 all over again and yet they are planning to launch the bidding for the new power station, which the country does not need.
In today’s managerial jargon, Edward Zammit Lewis has an opportunity.
He misinterpreted this as a political opportunity and started the blame game because he has no solution for the problem.
Let me see now:
Actavis : minus 69
Baxter : minus 30
Casino di Venezia: 67
Add to that the multiplier effect on the economy and you have the picture of three weeks of Labour in government.
Fifty unemployed people per week is not a joke.
Would they feed their families with a meeting with Chris Cardona?
And what about those who work in Dar Centrali, is it because Labour is in goverment?
You’re right, that’s another 24.
Read my lips: these ‘opportunities’ always come up, whoever is at the helm. So it’s not because this or that party is in government.
Instead you should demand that the government do whatever is necessary to save these jobs, not just moan and complain about what the other government left. More bad news and people will start to panic.
And I forgot to mention the De la Rue (Passports) ‘opportunity’ maybe that’s another 45.
We have competition:
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Forget-Malta-print-in-Kenya-De-La-Rue-20120411
Bdejna it-triq ghan nizla full speed u l-Gvern il-gdid jibqa cass.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130331/editorial/Labour-s-blue-eyed-boys-.463538
Next up.
Malta is building up a huge deficit due to the 2013 budget drawn up by the outgoing Nationalist government.
But, fear not. All will be well. Finance Minister Scicluna is still on a high after having actually sat at the same table and rubbed shoulders with all the other Eurozone Finance Ministers, and he was actually singled out for interview by No less than Bloomberg.
The “arani ma’ syndrome that pervades the Labour Party is alive and well. Never mind understanding what ministerial responsibility is all about, let alone being aware of the looming crisis and coming up with anything that might contain it.
It was extremely amusing to see him with Lagarde. If you know how Lagarde got her position there isn’t much more to add.
I can see it coming. Every problem which raises its head in the next five years will be dumped on the doorstep of the previous government; every solution found taken home and celebrated by the new one.
All it takes is to repeat the message till it sticks: we inherited this problem so don’t blame us if we fail to solve it; but if we do you must think we are great and thank us for the effort.
The problem is; they have no solutions, so no celebrations, only gloomy rhetoric.
Zammit Lewis, you can keep saying that the problem was inherited but it is yours to solve.
First minor problem they face and they start to whine.
Let’s see what you are worth now. I can tell you in advance – a big fat ZERO.
“This is a problem we inherited and it has been coming for years.”
What sort of an idiot, that is now in government, would approach a problem with this kind of philosophy?
Governing means “to manage a country” not to “take control” only. He should get off his backside and find out how to stop these jobs being lost as done by the previous government.
Unless no one goes to gamble there, how can a casino not make money?
They set the odds to their benefit like any casino.
Wasn’t their whole point of going to government to inherit problems and solve them? Not like they wanted to be in power just for the sake of being in power. Oh, wait…
You did your utmost to convince you are the best in the playground guys, now do not whinge – PLAY
Tony Zarb, GWU secretary, is quoted in to-day’s The Times as saying that a Maltese entrepraneur is interested in taking up the casino’s business complete with all its 67 employees.
In the same breath, however, he somehow manages to indicate that the enterprise should be offered following a call for interest – and not to the first guy who happens to come (or be pushed) along.
Fear not, super GWU already has the answer
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130403/local/investor-ready-to-absorb-casino-di-venezia-workers.464030
“The General Workers Union has informed the Government of a local investor who is ready to operate a casino in Malta and absorb the workers of Casino’ di Venezia which had its licence suspended by the Gaming Authority yesterday.”
What a coincidence. IF only such problems are solved within 24 hours
It has been stressed too strongly for my liking that “…. the Lotteries and Gaming Authority followed the law when it suspended the licence of Casino di Venezia for failing to adhere to stipulated conditions due to years of accumulated losses.”
BIZZILLA.
X’KUMBINAZZJONI.
I think Anglu Xuereb or ta’ Tumas would be in for it.
There should be a public call and let the best bidder buy the licence and employ the workers.
There should be full transparency as to what is going on here.
The casino licence is a controller public asset which is usually privatised through an ‘auction’ in a tender process.
For full transparency, the government must assure us that:
1. The Authority’s actions were justified in the circumstances, and there was no abuse of power.
2.There was no political interference with the acts of the Authority in this case.
3. The market value of the licence is paid by any new investor to the Casino di Venezia or to government.
…controlled public asset…
Thank God we have the likes of Tony Zarb and GWU to sort out problems for this PL Government. Why noy give them a place in the Cabinet, just like the good old days?
But they inherited an almost full employment rate. They don’t mention that.
Il-problemi taghna lkoll.