I have compiled for you a photograph album of the Malta Freeport Corporation CEO, Elve Aaron
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August 29, 2013 at 7:40pm
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X’cuc hu Marin Hili hdejn dan ?
He is still wet behind the ears.
Looks like they’ve been waxed.
Impressive. His facial expression is so reassuring.
Looks sulky with his bottom lip thrust out – like a child which didn’t get its way. However good and intelligent he might be (let’s give him the benefit of the doubt), he certainly doesn’t have the experience and doesn’t appear to have the maturity required for his new post.
Qatagħha l-ħarqa?
The fake fireplace one tops the lot.
Meritocra…whatever!!
Meritokra…zitu!
Meritokrataz-zija.
Meritocazzata.
None of you got it right. It’s ‘meritocrassy’, and you lot deserve better for you’re just as crass.
He probably got a better deal than MP Silvio Schembri photo 8 and Jeffrey Pastizzi Orlando photo 15.
Was he ever employed?
He got a better deal than Silvio Parnis for sure.
Jesus Christ, you CAN polish a turd.
If you apply enough pressure, you might even end up with a diamond.
Where is Frankie (or whatever his name is) who used to speak about meritocracy before the election?
@luciano http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2405870/Council-orders-1-000-investigation-embarrassing-picture-mayor-checking-phone-Armed-Forces-Day-ceremony-posted-online.html
Was that his bedroom with the certificate on the wall?
Did this guy ever work in a real job? What’s with all those student organizations? Who’s actually taking him seriously?
He does. His wife does. His fellow Elves do. His political boss does. His party does.
That’s rather worrying, isn’t it?
I am to believe no call for applications was ever published fo such a post or was it? Was past experience in business management a requirement?
He looks like a newly hatched chick.
I cannot disagree more.
A newly-hatched chick looks far perkier and smarter than this
dumbo.
It’s a loveable little thing.
Another mother’s child running the show.
As you said Daphne, the post of CEO is not required at Malta Freeport Corporation. It did not even exist when the corporation actually ran the Freeport during the years of Marin Hili’s chairmanship.
Therefore logic tells me, that if a position was invented for decorative purposes and to please ‘tal-qalba’, one does not need be bright to fill this post. In fact a wannabe would fit just fine.
And how much is he being paid for that?
Definitely much more than whom Sant used to call a Baruni. Mr.Hili did it out of his love for the industry.
The man was and still is an icon in the maritime world. His salary, if I recollect correctly from what was published in the media back then, was circa Lm4000 pa. A nominal one which probably he never accepted.
Like you, I would like to know how much this guy will be getting for running a corporation which unlike before, is now comprised of a handful of clerks and driver/messengers, a chairman, a CEO, more directors and managers than clerks and around 70 security personnel; who are actually paid for by the Freeport Terminals Ltd.
Meritokrazija at its best.
Aaron Farrugia was one of the three appointed on the selection board for ranking the Master It! scholarship candidates. No doubt that his academic background (having a change of heart by reading for an LLD after a B.Commerce and a Masters in European Studies) was a huge determinant in his appointment to the board.
[Daphne – Oh, no doubt. Jahasra.]
Indeed, I can confirm this, having had some friends who had the pleasure of facing him for their scholarship interview.
Talk about a conflict of interest – sharing a lecture hall with your law classmates one day, and determining their fate regarding whether or not they will get a scholarship the next.
I told my friends to not hold their hopes up too high.
Far be it from me to turn two wrongs into a right, but the PN administration too had its fair share of notorious CEOs.
Ah, but Labour was elected on the meritocracy ticket.
Many Laburisti say he could be Muscat’s successor.
At least this one is wearing clothes.
Can Franco Debono make a television appearance explaining exactly what meritokrazija is?
Jidher tifel bravu!
Sour grapes haha…what do you expect after the trashing we gave you! Keep tuned more to come, in the meantime ice tea can help your indigestion haha
Tkunx idiota. L-inkompetenza taffetwa lil kulhadd, int inkluz. Jekk ma tiflhax, tmur ghand it-tabib, mhux ghand skarpan.
An elve called Wayne. Isn’t that cute?
I like Wayne the Elve, it rhymes. It’s better to be an elve then a fairy Whoami?, if you get my drift.
Mr Caruana what board have you made it to?
Let me tell you a little about sour grapes and indigestion.
I am as old as Mr Farrugia. I have excelled in my studies as much as he has.
I have consumed most of my post university and my post Masters years building a successful management business, employing persons, paying taxes and generally sweating blood.
Here comes Mr Farrugia, who has consumed that same time, pushing the PL party machine, attending seminars, lectures, PL party general meetings and answering phones on telethons, and tink tanking straight to CEO at Freeport at god knows whatever wage and whatever benefits.
Now surely you too must have received your iced bun, are earning a high end wage or have been blessed by receiving a quick shortcut like the one awarded to Mr Farrugia…but then certainly you are no one to know or speak anything about indigestion, chronic ulcer or hernias suffered for the achievement of any milestone that did not come as a reward for basically, licking party ass.
Wayne is this your facebook page? If yes, you did extremely well under a Nationalist government. In 2009 you bought a large expensive boat. You also bought your wife a BMW.
I wish you well.
I hope you can keep the same standard of living under this Labour government. But I have serious doubts about that.
With all the wrong decisions taken and with all the incompetent, unqualified people chosen for key posts, this country is undoubtedly going to the dogs.
We will all suffer, you included. Indigestion will be the order of the day and I suggest you stock up on the ice tea.
https://www.facebook.com/waynecrx/photos
Yes it’s me and I did it against all odds, I truly cannot understand why all this fuss about these appointments, it’s exactly the same as it was before, we just changed sides!
Inti mil-Fondazzjoni Idioti, Wayne?
Mr Caruana…you are right. It happens on both sides and I would agree..but then again you say against all odds you’ve worked hard for your reward in life.. but quote from your own words..
“Min jghid li ix xoghol huwa s salmura tal gisem ghandu jinkiteb mount carmel, jien ili gimgha d dar ma naghmel xejn, qatt ma hassejtni daqshekk sodisfatt lol!” …
Once again…those who work hard in this country get ziltch!!
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/this-is-for-labours-aaron-farrugia-whose-parents-lied-to-him-horribly-as-he-grew-up-and-who-couldnt-be-fagged-to-find-out-for-himself/
To be fair to Aaron he is an intelligent young man and an excellent political operative. He has a lot of experience in politics, policy and lobbying both at a local and at a European level having been active in student politics from his student days, moved into our equivalent of the big leagues pretty much immediately after uni, being one of the main contributors to the PL electoral manifestos, programme and campaign over the last 3 years and having been active on a number of EP, and European committee of regions committees.
He was a worthy adversary in our student politics days.
That is not to say that I believe that this qualifies him necessarily for the post of CEO of the MFC … BUT, credit where credit is due … he is an intelligent young man. What he will make of this position is yet to be seen … but this is far from being the worst appointment this government has made.
[Daphne – Aaron Farrugia is very, very average. He stands out because this is Malta. He is seen as ‘intelligent’ and ‘excellent’ not because of his own intrinsic qualities, but by comparison to a great wash of dross. The man can’t even write a decent sentence, for heaven’s sake. And if he were that brilliant he would have learned English by now. He was raised in Malta, not Brazil. The low standards here just set my teeth on edge.]
context is everything and not everyone is to be measured by the same yardstick … there are plenty of intelligent people whose command of language is not as great as it could be … including English. His Maltese at least is of good quality. A few spelling mistakes do not an idiot make. He’s good at what he does, by our standards and also by the standard of others. Having seen him at work he does a good job … I have had my issues with his drafting, his ideas and his ideologies in the past and I am sure I will continue to have them in the future … but I respect the effort he puts in, the quality of the work he has produced in the past and I hope for my sake and yours that he can up his work product further in his new role … whether his spelling needs a bit of work or not
One does not appoint a CEO in the hope that he can do a good job. One appoints a CEO in the CERTAINTY that he or she WILL do a good job.
But yet the appointment, does neither appear to be based on meritocracy, nor on a ‘Taghna Lkoll’ label. Two buzz words of the LP’s pre-election campaign.
So let us say he is an intelligent elve. Where does that leave us?
David, I do not know Mr. Farrugia from Adam, but if he is all that you said he is, why did Joseph have to invent a position that didn’t exist and that is probably not needed, to give him his reward? Couldn’t he have made something of himself on his own?
I would hardly class (Dr.) Aaron Farrugia as intelligent.
Just because one has three degrees behind their name does not mean that one is smart.
Being able to study in a limited amount of time and scrape through exams does not amount to a high level of intelligence, in my opinion.
I would know – after spending six years together in the law course, one tends to know, even if one is not good friends with everyone, whether that person has a relative degree of intelligence or otherwise.
If he were really intelligent he would have left Malta.
There.
I agree. Unfortunately.
Farrugia is cut from the same cloth as Muscat. Position and prestige matter more than substance.
He was hardly intelligent nor a worthy adversary at university years. He struggled desperately to keep up with his much more savvy Labour peers (those worthy souls received no iced bun, they just work their asses off and keep a low profile like normal people).
Aaron was that unfortunate nerdy guy, slightly dim-witted but arrogant all the same. Yet he knew how to curry favour.
Clearly and despite the statements about this young man’s “qualifications”, he is too young and inexperienced to handle his reward. Bragging about an order of merit from a remote corner of the world shows that he hasn’t learnt anything from his bachelors, masters and doctoral studies.
These ‘iced-bun’ appointments are deplorable.
Unfortunately, Muscat was correct in calling for meritocracy. These weird appointments happened all too frequently during PN administrations. Utter idiots and opportunists were promoted to some very important posts. Malta’s rife with these people and they make a fool out of people who have any sort of political ideals and desire for good governance.
In practice, however, Muscat has shown us that he is no better than a common used car salesman or an an evangelical preacher. He is telling us one thing and doing the opposite. He invokes meritocracy and yet he is cultivating and reinforcing a culture of opportunism.
In addition, the majority fails to see past the words and look at action instead. They do not identify the gross inconsistencies. Instead they rely on such abstract and meaningless phrases “our PM has good intentions” to justify actions such as these (if they actually do go that far).
And, how can Muscat not be otherwise? In his rise to power there was too much ground to be gained over the Nationalists not to act otherwise and to promise heaven on earth to those who would help out recover the former “glory” of Labour.
These appointments say much about Muscat (and the PN). They also speak volumes about the opportunistic character of most Maltese. Yet the two seem to go hand in hand. Muscat’s trickery, favouritism and mediocrity are not possible without Malta’s opportunism. At least, on the average the PN showed good governance. Now even that has been thrown to the dogs.
Come on, Daphne. He’s done enough bootlicking to deserve the job.
Looks like Konrad Mizzi’s Mutated Twin.
Meritocracy my ass.
At least his eyebrows are not plucked and Vaselined like those of so many of his Super One friends.
Still, with Ronnie Pellegrini as a board member and judicial and legal representative (does our Ronnie know what that means?) I think he should watch his back.
What about Alex Saliba?
…and he’s not thick as pig poo. But that does not make him intelligent at all.
I remember Aaron constantly tripping over himself, trying and failing to recite Alfred Sant’s anti-EU rhetoric in his own words. He tried to sound neutral and constantly failed to say anything meaningful.
He tries to sound intelligent, he tries to think, he tries to be brilliant – and the fact that he actually tries sets him apart from many of his contemporaries.
But he’s thick – not quite as thick as pig poo, but very thick nevertheless.
I expect that CMA-CGM (the actual operators of the Freeport) will be rubbing their hands in glee or banging their heads against the wall in frustration for the next five years.
PS I am acquainted with CMA-CGM too – and you don’t want some semi-literate tosser who doesn’t know anything about the Freeport, maritime transport, etc dealing with operators like them. They’re smart, know what they want, and know how to get it.
Ah, the electoral manifesto. I’d forgotten it was written by the Elve in Chief. I wonder what he thinks his buddy Joseph should do about Syria. Sorting out the Middle East was one of their electoral promises.
In the 17th photo, Aaron is seen with two others at a Forum Zghazagh Laburisti event, in what appears to be a press conference, with a slice of Graffitti banner in the background (nice).
The two jocksters next to him are none other than Lorenzo Vella (to his left) and Andre’ Borg (to his right), who ironically both work/ed in the European Commission/European Court of Justice.
First they oppose the EU and then they milk it to their own advantage, and now with all these iced buns being handed out they are all in line waiting to milk our resources instead.
I wouldn’t be surprised if by the end of the year they are given positions within our meritocratic government.
Maltiyz Moddellink.
Check the albums.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Glamorous-Entertainment/397839913661454
I was thinking about the billboards and chairmanships connection. My conclusion is that Joseph applied the FIFO rule also.
First to appear on the billboards was Franco Debono..remember? Franco was one of the first chairpersons who joined the Labour bandwagon or gravy train – call it what you like.
L-ahjar ritratt hu ta’ Aaron ma’ Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (Smith).