Comments on: GUEST POST: Why the Malta Council for Science and Technology, and Malta, are the ultimate losers in all this https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:11:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1208579 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:11:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1208579 In reply to La Redoute.

STILL you don’t get it.

I’m saying it’s the man who appointed him who should have been criticised, i.e. the Prime Minister at the time. Same goes for many other dubious appointments made by the previous administration.

But it can’t be helped now. Let’s hope Simon Busuttil will be a wiser and better prime minister when his time comes.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1208557 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:02:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1208557 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Oh, he was criticised all right. That’s partly why he threw so many tantrums even after he was given his bag of sweets.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1208354 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:12:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1208354 I’ve half a mind to write a self-invited guest post in reply.

Where was the author when a dentist was appointed MCST chairman? Where was everybody?

Some of you had your eyes so full of Gonzi-dust that you couldn’t bring yourself to criticise any decision made under the previous government.

]]> By: Lina Caruana https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1206482 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:08:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1206482 I recall the Minister of Education’s presence Hon. Evarist Bartolo with MUT officials at an MUT conference at the Diplomat Hotel. I was still hard-working and active in education then. What did he think of meritocracy then?

]]> By: joe https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1205825 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 23:18:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1205825 i hope that everyone remembers the promises of Joseph Muscat that he was preaching everyday before the elections.

Think wisely, has he delivered any?

]]> By: Gahan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1205167 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:19:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1205167 PROs in Malta are there to defend there bosses who have a siege mentality.

You send a simple query in Maltese to a government department’s customer (s)care desk and instead of getting a simple straightforward reply to a simple question, you get a hundred excuses and questions written in poor English by a PRO who didn’t even bother to read two simple sentences carefully.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1204947 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:50:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1204947 In reply to albona.

Got to an optician. And anyhow, in this contest it wasn’t intended as a compliment.

]]> By: Not Sandy:P https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1204552 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:04:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1204552 A member of the national council of science and technology in a post-colonial country where English is one of the official languages and the social and political system is not meritocratic:

http://dst.gov.in/scientific-programme/s-t_ncstc-bio-off.htm

http://www.iscos.org/national-award-dr-manoj-patairiya.htm

Dr. Manoj Patairiya (b. 1961) did his M.Sc. in Zoology (Environmental Biology) and M.Sc. (Tech.) and Ph.D. in Science & Technology Communication. He also did Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism & Mass Communication and M.B.A. in Human Resource Development. At present, Dr. Patairiya is serving as Director (Scientist ‘F’), at National Council for Science & Technology Communication

Conversation between Dr Manoj Patairiya and Malta’s MCST chairman and PRO would be riveting.

]]> By: Not Sandy:P https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1204509 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:47:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1204509 In reply to ciccio.

If you were Lara Boffa, you wouldn’t understand a word of it.

]]> By: Not Sandy:P https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/guest-post-why-the-malta-council-for-science-and-technology-and-malta-are-the-ultimate-losers-in-all-this/#comment-1204492 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:39:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36625#comment-1204492 Did Lara Boffa pass the Sarah Palin test?

Name one newspaper or magazine you read regularly…

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YC79WhGdBXM

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