Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has put Labour billboard woman Lara Boffa on the state payroll with a job at the Malta Council for Science and Technology
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August 14, 2013 at 7:35pm
The prime minister has appointed Lara Boffa to the board of Enemalta, a position for which she is not fit for purpose, and now Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has given her a full-time job at the state council he chairs, as his shared personal assistant and PRO.
Small wonder, then, that the Malta Council for Science and Technology has not seen fit to issue a statement about the involvement of its chairman in a public brawl outside a bar at 5am.
From the MCST website:
Senior-management Personal Assistant, and Public Relations Officer
Lara Boffa
Email Boffa Lara at MCST
tel: +356 23602 174
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Lara, watch out or you might get a little prick – even if you’ll never notice it.
Oh, but those those premises have seen worse.
Lara Boffa’s grandfather was the last decent person to lead the Labour Party over 60 years ago. In fact he had to join forces with Borg Olivier to form a government in the turbulent 1950s.
In 1981, Boffa’s wife Genoveffa (Lara’s grandmother) addressed a PN meeting, warning Boffisti that another Labour term would be disastrous for Malta, and telling her husband’s political supporters to vote for Eddie Fenech Adami. She was completely right.
Some time ago Bijografiji featured a documentary about Pawlu Boffa. Lara refused to participate. I asked the producers about her absence and they told me that she was invited to take part several times but she refused.
Next appointment for Lara Boffa: unveiling the Duminku Mintoff monument in the ex-Misrah Helsien beneath the new Piano Parliament building. A final humiliation to her grandfather, Sir Paul Boffa, and all that he stood for.
Lara Boffa should read the historical facts about how Mintoff stabbed her grandfather in the back and then slandered him by suggesting he committed incest with his daughter, because they shared a hotel room (to save money) when on an official visit overseas.
She should be ashamed of being part of any organisation which celebrates the memory of the very man who caused her own grandfather so much pain and misery. That tells you all you need to know about her opportunism and lack of principles.
So yes, she is at home in the very party which spat her grandfather out because he had the integrity that she does not.
@ Alex: Your statement is untrue. I was not asked to be interviewed (video) nonetheless I supplied content. My dear (late) father was asked to be video-interviewed though had preferred not to participate due to health issues.
[Daphne – Please now tell us whether you were interviewed for the post of Pullicino Orlando’s + senior management’s personal assistant and MCST PRO, and whether you went through a competitive selection process to get the job. Please also explain how somebody who works as a PA and PRO has the qualifications to sit on the board of the state energy corporation. And when you are done with explaining that, please tell the readers of this website whether you are comfortable with the sheer hypocrisy of pretending to promote meritocracy on the Labour ticket and then accepting a reward, at the expense of the state coffers, for doing so. Your behaviour disgusts me. “Dear late father?” You are clearly your mother’s child: her performance at your side beneath the Labour tent was quite revolting. Clearly, principles and integrity are not genetic, but learned behaviour.]
Lara Boffa aren’t you sensible enough to realise that you’re selling any shred of dignity you might have, for a couple of appointments you’re not even fit for.
You obviously aren’t.
What are you asking for your next billboard appearance?
“My dear (late) father was asked to be video-interviewed though had preferred not to participate due to health issues.”
Is that level of English acceptable for a PRO of the Malta Council for Science and Technology?
Where is Maria l-Maws, the Minister of Education?
Another interesting lesson on how greed is so much more powerful than morals. Expect more lessons as the country continues to descend to the depths.
@Lara Boffa
You are a liar.
I just called the production manager of that show and he said that you were asked for an interview. They gave you an appointment and then you cancelled for no reason whatsoever.
@Alex
Maybe she refused simply because she knows nothing about her grandfather.
Maybe she refused because this is the sort of video presence she’s capable of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMRaN3NMAew
Hi Daphne…On what email can I send you a personal msg pls?
[Daphne – [email protected]]
Daphne – I encourage you to carry out better research before writing any further absurdities. Have a great evening.
[Daphne – That is not an acceptable answer, Ms Boffa. If you do not answer questions about the legitimacy of your employment at the MCST yourself, I am afraid that the question will have to be put formally to the Council you represent, and you shall then have to answer in the capacity of its PRO. If your boss Pullicino Orlando refuses to answer this legitimate question, it will have to be put in parliament, and the minister responsible for the Malta Council for Science and Technology will then have no choice but to answer it.]
I was waiting for that type of reply , Ms. Boffa please be so kind as to give us better and more precise information yourself.
Do your research Daphne. You’re meant to be a journalist. You could start off with ETC, otherwise proceed as you deem fit.
[Daphne – No, Ms Boffa, you are completely wrong. As PRO to a state council, you should know that a journalist goes to the source: if I want to know how and why you were recruited, my first points of call are 1. you, and 2. your employer. You are not obliged to reply in a personal capacity and indeed, you need your employer’s permission to do so. Your employer – because it is a state entity – is obliged to reply. On the basis of your handling of this matter, I must conclude that you are a deeply ignorant and arrogant woman, and most unfit for the two appointments you have been given by this government in return for services rendered. It is a form of moral prostitution. “I compromise my integrity and prostitute myself under your tent/on your billboards. You give me a job and a salary funded through the Treasury.” You are shameless, and an embarrassment to your family name.]
Daphne is right. These arrogant replies from the PRO of the MCST are disgusting.
ETC?
As if the ETC can give out personal information.
Try again, Lara. But try harder.
[Daphne – Don’t bother. As a campaigner for Labour, she’s accustomed to getting away with false arguments and fatuous reasoning, and her level of intelligence is incapable of rising above that anyway.]
All Labour goons have learnt just one thing: how to be arrogant when in government.
Well it seems that the wording on the billboard was prophetic at least for Ms. Boffa. She surely has changed her direction…but for the rest of us the only change I can see is for the worse. Time will tell.
What a disgraceful bunch of opportunists this country is producing. It gets worse every day.
Good luck to all of the poor souls who have any dignity left in their veins.
Ms Boffa, you do realise, don’t you, that the legitimate questions Daphne asked you involve a public post, which means that you are accountable to the public who pay your salary?
Hence your crisp sarcastic answer is definitely not acceptable.
Furthermore, being a regular reader of this site I can assure you that Ms Caruana Galizia does not report anything without thorough research, as I have never come across any report that was not accurate.
Well, you would consider the truth absurd, wouldn’t you?
Personal assistant? PRO? I mistakenly thought during the campaign that Lara Boffa was a sort of high-flying executive and entrepreneur who has had outstanding overseas experience. Again, personal assistant?
It is time to revisit all those billboards and check how many of them were a product of pure envy and cases of expectation beyond their talent/abilities.
Since these people could not compete and achieve in the private market, their only way up was to sleep with Labour, or prostitute themselves on a billboard or Super One.
There is no key difference between the two kinds of amoral behavior.
There is no need to revisit the billboards. That much should have been obvious from the start.
William Mangion and Frederick Testa are familiar faces because they’ve been around for so long. Audrey Harrison is not unknown if you’ve ever watched (bad) TV drama. Ramona Frendo is the classic mejda tal-qubbajt. Albert Gauci Cunningham’s digital fingerprints are all over the internet along with examples of his vulgar way of expressing himself. Lara Boffa’s face wasn’t as familiar as the others but once you got to know who she was you were meant to think ‘ah, so that’s alright, then – she’s Paul Boffa’s granddaughter, even though she never knew him’ without questioning her credentials.
Unbelievable. Taghna lkoll indeed.
Hokkli dari u nhokk tieghek…din hija l-bidla fid-direzzjoni.
Tista tghidilna xi kwalifiki ghandha Lara Boffa?
If I were Lara I would never accept any of these appointments after what Labour did to her grandfather and what her family went through. Not even if Muscat promised me he would cover me in gold.
But Lara seems not to care about what her family went through. She is a person without principles.
I am sure she knows much more than us what her family went through. I am not defending her as its pretty obvious which teat she gets her milk from but we should not be pointing out to her what is public knowledge about her family, when we are not privy to her family’s private dealings.
Lara Boffa shouldn’t have accepted those appointments for another reason: they are beyond her capabilities.
l-aqwa li thaxxen butha u x’imkien iehor.
That’s the meritocracy and Malta Taghna Lkoll for you. This is a government that rewards switchers, or rather idiots who voted Labour on the promise that they would get something in return.
Those who wanted hard evidence of their contribution appeared on a billboard. In every other civilised country, except for politicians, only models appear on political billboards – usually foreign ones.
After what Mintoff did to Paul Boffa, to his wife and daughter, any person carrying the Boffa name should be ashamed to throw his/her lot with those who follow in his footsteps and propose to erect a monument to him.
Lara’s grandparents must be turning in their grave.
[Daphne – I think the real problem, besides the quite obvous one that her IQ is on the low side (you can tell by the way she communicates, not just by her behaviour, and this is not something I would have remarked on had she not been presented to us as the very opposite of this) is that, because of the unusual generational difference, she never knew her Boffa grandparents and so could not have loved them. In the ordinary generational scheme of things, Paul Boffa would have been Lara’s GREAT-grandfather (and how many of us can lay claim to a relationship with a great-grandparent? my children can, but they are very unusual in that – I never knew any of my great-grandparents) and her father would have been her GRANDfather. Sir Paul and Lady Boffa are clearly just a couple of names on paper to their granddaughter, far removed in time and not real people at all. But even so, this does not excuse her behaviour. And that behaviour, I suspect, has less to do with lack of integrity/principles and more to do with low intelligence which leaves her literally incapable of understanding the issues involved.]
What is the MCST anyway? Is it an employment ground for Labour supporters or something? Doesn’t give me the impression a lot of science is coming out of there.
Malta Council for Science & Technology – it’s thanks to the Nationalist government and the EU that these people have got their jobs there. It’s funny how some of them voted against the EU.
Mela nhar is-Sibt ghall-pastizzi ma’ sidha Jeffrey.
Will Jeffrey’s new state-funded personal assistant be sharing her pastizz at 5am with him? Or will she be doing that with the Law Commissioner, another admirer? Of course, there are no guarantees that her boss will be any good just before day-break, when he has a bottleful of Earl Grey inside him. So I would take my chances with the Law Commissioner, if I were her.
I noted a whiff of arrogance in Lara Boffa – a sure sign that she knows she got the posts and the money at a higher price than she originally bargained for.
She is now back at the spot where she wants above all else to be respected.
very well stated and said.
My goodness, it always amazes me how at this day and age people choose popularity, money and power over dignity and respect.