Comments on: How did I miss this? Must read the Government Gazette more often. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:59:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1132232 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:59:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1132232 In reply to La Redoute.

Ha! Franco Debono had tried that at Café Jubilee when he was an MP, and was ejected from the establishment.

]]> By: Gabriel Cassar-Torregiani https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131918 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:24:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131918 In reply to Pete.

Not the original scene, but here is a reference to the episode:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101121/opinion/towelgate-revisited.337153

]]> By: mark galea https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131738 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:33:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131738 Daphne, perhaps this is of interest to your readers. The Maltese government is headed by experts who make their fellow partisans think they are superior beings, because they studied at Oxford. I refer to:

Lino Spiteri:
http://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lino_Spiteri

Edward Scicluna :
http://www.edwardscicluna.com/profile/

Richard Matrenza

Are they true Oxford??? This article explains:

http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/9th-august-1968/8/platers-19-oxford-diplomas

Plater College was never part of the constituent colleges of Oxford, in fact members are not eligible for alumni/associate status (read below). This means that if we are to show off and put post-nominals on public records please ensure that these are factual, hence Oxon should be eliminated.

https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=920

]]> By: Last Post https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131735 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:28:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131735 He’s so ridiculously POMPOUS.

The way we remember him here is how he took at least a quarter of an hour to explain (on radio, probably to his Labour blockheads during the KMB days) the significance and importance of a ZERO in simple mathematics.

As if that had anything to do with the political implications of KMB as Mintoff’s successor as head of government.

]]> By: john doe https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131695 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:52:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131695 I am impressed with the large number of people holding an “Oxford degree” and occupying high level positions.

http://www.gov.mt/en/Government/Government%20of%20Malta/Ministries%20and%20Entities/Pages/Finance-Portfolio.aspx

We must be a nation of really high achievers. We even invent our own post-nominals DSS, DPE (PPE?).

Brilliant.

]]> By: no comment https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131656 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:17:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131656 I dont like it when people use post-nominals to impress.

Daphne perhaps you should check what he means by DPE from Oxford. To my knowledge no such degree is offered. is he making it up?

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/gazette/documents/universitycalendar/style–current_for_2011.pdf

]]> By: A. Charles https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131613 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:47:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131613 In reply to La Redoute.

And the waiter replied “If you don’t know, I don’t know either.”

]]> By: etil https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131561 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:07:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131561 In reply to Dickens.

No – I think that guy’s surname is Cirillo ?

]]> By: John Higgins https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131529 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:43:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131529 You describe him so well Daphne. He was always a clown since his Lyceum schooldays.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/how-did-i-miss-this-must-read-the-government-gazette-more-often/#comment-1131503 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:31:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34509#comment-1131503 In reply to Pete.

There was definitely a scene about a leather wastepaper basket. Matrenza’s predecessor had bought it for the office. Matrenza gave one of those I’m-an-important-man-now interviews that Labour favours. The most pressing item on his agenda was the cost of a waste paper basket.

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