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May 13, 2013 at 7:13pm
The Parliamentary Secretary for Culture
Posted by P Shaw:
Jose Herrera’s appointment as PS for Culture can be seen as a blessing in disguise.
Finally, we have an authoritive figure who will have the final say as to whether the Mqabba festival (or is it a nearby village?) should be called Il-Festa tal-Irkotta or Il-Festival tar-Rikotta.
His wisdom and intellect will be most welcome in this ongoing debate.
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Ma kienx il-mument li ohtu fethet halqa.
The festival mentioned is at Hal Kirkop.
Is the one clinging to Jose his new chief of staff or his communications co-ordinator?
Look, the NYT says Joseph can bungle all he wants because as far as bailouts are concerned “Malta should be off the screens for quite some time.”
The article has ‘Mintoff’s legacy’ written all over it but you won’t notice that for want of an unbiased mind, so we’ll just leave it at “kemm kien bravu Gonzi”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/business/global/2-islands-with-different-economic-climates.html
It definitely does not have “Muscat’s legacy” written on it – that’s for sure. In 2010, Muscat wanted Gonzi to follow the Cyprus model.
Why do you say ‘Mintoff’s legacy’? HSBC’s banking model has nothing to do with Mintoff, and HSBC is one of the few global banks to have avoided any government aid during the financial meltdown of 2008-2009.
Just as other Maltese banks, HSBC (Malta) falls under Maltese banking rules and capitalisation guidelines. We’re talking about the system, ciccio, not the banking model, whatever that means in this day and age.
We are safer not because of HSBC’s banking model, but because the Maltese banking system remains diligent and vigilant. Mintoff’s caution in this field has never been discarded – not by Dupuis, nor any finance minister that followed.
Soon, with the advent of the European Banking Union, there won’t be a difference at all.
Mintoff was avaricious, not cautious. He wasn’t a particularly well known supporter of free enterprise and private capital – except in his own case, of course.
La Redoute, keep your eyes on the ball: it is that same avarice that made him cautious.
The hell it did. He was avaricious and miserly. The two are complementary. Caution be damned.
Oh, and why are you citing NYT? I thought Mintoffjani had an inborn grudge against capitalists.
Don’t be petty, La Redoute. You sound like Jason Micallef on a good day – and I’m being very kind.
Miskin! Ja miskin. X’jigrilu bniedem ikkastrat, qas temmen.
Rather than Mintoff written all over it, I actually think I read Sant and KMB between the lines. Mur ixxejjer Kev.
Mela sewwa, il-hazin li kollu li gara fl-ahhar 25 sena (apparti it-tragedji tal-1996-1998) tort ta GonziPN, u it-tajjeb Mintoff.
Xi tkun int?
The IRKOTTA debate was fun, weren’t it?
Actually it’s Kirkop, and this year’s edition will be held exactly NEXT SUNDAY ;)
It’s Hal Kirkop, for the rekort.
Whilst at it he can also illuminate us on the potato versus potatoe spelling war.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130513/local/new-board-to-reform-st-vincent-de-paul-home-management.469487
Spot Dom Mintoff’s niece on the new board.
Dr Marcon Ali
Consie’s indiscretions have rubbed off badly on Jose apparently. Joseph Muscat just couldn’t afford an embarrassment in the home affairs ministry.
He didn’t even risk giving him Owen Bonnici’s job as PS for Justice under Manwel Mallia.
I think that the Worzel Gummage and village bicycle blogs you put up some three odd years ago really rubbed off, Daphne.
[Daphne – I doubt it. The prime minister is perfectly capable of having worked out all that for himself. After all, they were very close friends and he was a regular guest at her home at all hours.]
All in the family and the family is getting larger and larger.
How many more to go? I long to see the final number of new public service employees and their cost to the national coffers.
Seems they want to place everyone in a government job so when the going gets tough they would have their steady job and no one can boot them out.
I wouldn’t want to be in his zarbun. It’s too complicated. Call Nordai’s parents for a spell-check.
Two of a kind?