I think it’s not a question of culture shock so much as the shock of full realisation that she married a weirdo.

I think that’s just the point.

No, you fall, you get up, dust yourself down and get ready for another fight.

You don’t go to party clubs and complain to the converted – no,no and no.

Simon Busuttil has to get his priorities right and show some balls.

Actually, I am still thinking about the timing of the MOU with China – announced hastily and by surprise on 11 September 2013 – just 9 days before the closing date for the submission of final bids on 20 September.

And I am wondering. By the time of the final submissions, the “Energy giants” and “Big names,” which had put their names in the hat in the original expression of interest, were aware of the deal reached by Joseph MOUscat with China.

Therefore, if that deal was of such strategic breakthrough to Enemalta as it is being presented – Joseph & CONrad are trying to convince us that Malta will become an energy hub and an exporter of energy – why did the “Energy giants” and the “Big names” withdraw and did not submit their offers for the gas plant?

Why were they not excited, what held them back? Are those global energy players so foolish to underestimate such a “strategic deal”?

With the information available on 20 September, why did those leading players walk away from the opportunity to deal with China – the world’s second largest economy – in its new strategic location in the Mediterranean?

Or is it a case that they had already lost, or been made to loose, their interest before the announcement of the deal with China, and was the deal announced only after they had declared, or it had become known, that they had lost their interest?

Was the deal announced in time to accomodate a final submission by any one or more of the final three bidders? This could be the case, for example, if the final bidders were asked to provide some bank commitment to credit, which commitment would not have been forthcoming from the banks unless Enemalta was put in a better financial position…

Where is the investigative independent media?

Ovvjament il-ministru f’ dan il-kaz ma jistax, allura jekk ried jaghti job lill-martu ma setax isibilha wiehed hawn Malta?

Ma tantx jinhabbu nahseb, iktar nahseb isseparaw bil-pulit minghajr karti, u peress li taghna lkoll, mela ahna ha nkunu qed inmantnu lil mara separata tal-ministru.

Yes, but does she really want that?

Spot on re the other bidders.

They’ll come back and say it’s not in Malta’s strategic interest having on board the only ones who can do it.

All the bull about looking at the offshore terminal option, when it was a known fact only Edison had the technology and portfolio. Problem seems to be the Qataris competing directly with China in the Med.

As for made in China, they’re losing it, manufacturing and technology require democracy and its benefits to flourish. Work is a value if it has to grow and values usually come in packages.

Everything else is false. Do we know that.

@ Gary
The qualifications quoted carry merits which are not to be ignored, and, I am sure, would have faced the challenge of a public call for the filling of the newly created post.

The fact that the post was not advertised, and that it went to the wife of a minister, still raises questions on the appropriateness of the procedure followed for the creation and filling of this post.

Ask Shiv Nair.