It was Manuel Mallia who gave the order to PBS, and not PBS that put the request to Manuel Mallia
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June 28, 2013 at 3:27pm
Times of Malta (how I loathe the way they did that Maltese thing of dispensing with the definite article where it belongs) today reports:’
When contacted, a spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister said PBS had requested the permanent secretary at the Home Affairs Ministry to revoke Mr Vella’s secondment as TVHemm would not run in summer.
This is untrue. See the original letter here.
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what is ‘immigartion’?
Was the date the 14th, or have I got the day wrong?
“Immigartion”?
OMG – Anton, is that how you spell immigration?
The OPM’s statement is absurd for another reason. Why would PBS ask for staff to be transferred out of their organisation?
Maybe Frank Portelli (PBS Board of Directors) can clarify this.
….yeah, and muck up any chance of selling his hospital in the process.
It is obvious that the letter was written in haste and nobody bother checking it.
Is it normal practice to write a letter of such import to the recipient in one sentence?
Should it not read “the Principal Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister” ?
I think it’s more Silvio Nexos Scerri rather than Manuel Mallia.
Would one end a formal letter with the salutation ‘Regards’ ?
Apart from the horrendous sentence structure and spelling mistakes, doesn’t this letter feel unfinished?
Shouldn’t it have continued “You are therefore requested to clear your stuff and sod off to wherever whatever. Thank you for your services and ta ta.” … or something along those lines?
As it is the letter technically has no point, nor does it instruct Norman Vella to do anything in particular. It feels like it was written in a couple of minutes on the way to the bathroom.