The Adoption Board
Some of you have expressed a wish to know more about the parameters for appointment to the Adoption Board, its terms of reference, and what it actually does.
Below, you will find a link to the relevant part of the law.
I would say that besides Justine Scerri Herrera, whose appointment is not in conformity with the law (which speaks of “professionals in various fields” and one person who was adopted or has adopted), questions should also be raised about the board’s chairman, Ivan Grech Mintoff, whose behaviour on the internet leaves a great deal to be desired.
There are more questions to be asked about the appointment to this board of one Connie Griffiths Bianchi who, unless there are two persons of this unusual name, works in the secretariat of the very minister who appointed the board, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca. She is in charge of the minister’s ‘customer care’. The conflict of interest here is so blatant that I really don’t think it needs to be spelled out.
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http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=lom&itemid=8961&l=1
People won t care until they see the effects of this. Ten they will start using the word hindsight.
Was the young women in question adopted herself ?
From the adoption statute:
(2) The Minister shall endeavour to have a person over the age of eighteen years who is adopted and a person who is or was an adoptive parent as part of the Adoption Board, and such persons may be appointed at any time during the term of office of the Adoption Board.
Michael Buhagiar has Johann Buttigieg as his ‘widna’ in MEPA, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca has Connie Griffiths Bianchi as her ‘widna’ on the Adoption Board. A pattern is emerging. Thr Soviet, Red China, and North Korean culture is alive and well within Joseph Muscat’s Labour Party. He is doing Duminku Mintoff proud.
A 22 year old has no place on that board, appointing her determines a compromised government unable to function logically and properly.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep a rational approach with these people. Not that it was ever easy, blokka bajda/blokka silg comes to mind.
Muscat set the pattern with his flippant retorts, the degree of blatant lying unprecedented.
We’re back to arguing ‘is-sewwa maghruf’. I understand the PN’s busy getting itself sorted, but do we need a vocal, persistent opposition.
Let Kurt get all het up with his ‘politika pozittiva’ and ‘poplu li warrab’.
Sometimes the message makes the medium, if it’s strong and of its time.
So it`s another cock-up by Coleiro Preca (who positions herself as the champion of the poor who are a figment of her imagination).
d) making recommendations to the court and, or to the central authority regarding a prospective adoptive parent;
The daughter sits on the board and her mother gives judgements in court.
Joseph ma jara xejn hazin.
As a parent of two teenagers I have no interest in adopting children, but I was wondering, if a client has a problem during the adoption process, does one appeal to the board or to the ministry’s customer care? Only in Malta taht il-Labour.
What about Cherylanne Aquilina? She is not much older than Justyne.
Will property law knowledge come in handy to decide whether a couple is eligible to adopt?
And yet the conflict of interest needs to be spelled out and the Opposition should start being an opposition even – especially – on such matters.