I don’t think Muscat fully understands that he’s now the head of government, and what he says has implications beyond Super One, Facebook and the Marsa Club
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October 3, 2013 at 7:17pm
In Times of Malta today:
Science guru wants Muscat to apologise
One of the world’s leading biotechnology entrepreneurs, Sir Chris Evans, says he will be taking legal action against Malta Enterprise over “false” and “fabricated” claims about him.
Sir Chris, who until a few months ago was Malta’s special envoy for biotechnology, is also demanding a public apology from the Prime Minister.
It comes after the Prime Minister said in Parliament that Sir Chris had his €750,000 contract terminated because he had not attracted any work to Malta. Sir Chris denies he was paid as much and says he quit his post last year because it was not worth it.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131003/local/science-guru-wants-muscat-to-apologise.488738#.Uk2mTFNy2V4
How to put off investors.
That is all they know. Super 1 mentality.
Let’s not forget that the man who could at best be the head of the administrative committee of Burmarrad, under the St. Paul’s Local Council, is the Prime Minister of Malta.
This is bad enough, but the Shiv Nair thing is much bigger, for the same reasons.
Seriously, how can they be so completely and utterly f*cking stupid?
We have a substantial chunk of our economy linked to financial services, and another to online gaming. The last thing you want to do is invest in either arena in a country where the party in government consorts and consults with a man debarred for corrupting governments.
Are they insane? Do they want to kill the Financial Services and online gaming industries? Which will in turn take the IT industry with them!
Unbelievable amateurs. They’re just like those idiots who shoplift under the eyes of CCTV cameras and expect not to get caught.
Bloody idiots.
Good on him. As a side note, last time I went to the Marsa Club it was full of wannabe tal-pepe hamalli. What happened there?
I totally agree. However the article is also pretty damning of the previous government’s efforts. To quote:
‘I want to make it clear I was never sacked by anyone but decided to leave last year as it was becoming a waste of time…. It seems that some executives at Malta Enterprise were not really interested in the project and didn’t get what it entailed.”
Unfortunately I have heard other similar stories with regards to Malta Enterprise. So I am not surprised.
I find it ironic that the piece was written by Ivan Camilleri, seeing that it was his brother, Alan, who was chairman of Malta Enterprise when this sorry business was concluded.
Once again proof (if any was needed) that Gonzi was betrayed by his own people. The sad thing is he was warned, but refused to do anything about it.
Muscat is an absolute plonker. The problem is that as Prime Minister he is a dangerous one.
This is not the first time that the Prime Minister got it all wrong, to put it mildly. Coincidentally and conveniently such statements are made in Parliament.
The black listed and faceless Shiv Nair is OK for Joseph while this successful science guru whose face everyone recognises , Sir Chris Evans, has to resort to legal action against Malta Enterprise over “false” and “fabricated” claims about him.
We’re already sliding the slippery slope to failure of new investments.
They have no idea who Sir Professor Christopher Evans is. This is a link to his investment company:
http://www.excalibur-group.co.uk/about/
Unfortunately Malta Enterprise has never understood what life sciences industry is all about. It was and now even more, run by people that just want their own little empire.
I was at a number of meetings with Chris Evans and the Malta Enterprise people (some of them are now very close to the chairman) and know exactly how exasperated he used to become trying to make these thick-heads understand what life science is all about.
They thought, and still think, that it is just a matter of building a lab/office/facility, and top scientists and entrepreneurs would flock to Malta.
With this last act of ‘hdura’ and ‘lanzit,’ together with the total mess of the Malta Council of Science and Technology following the departure of Dr Nick Sammut, they can kiss goodbye to the biotech industry in Malta.
Can someone please, please tell this imbecile of a so-called PM that he cannot, repeat cannot, put Shiv Nair, Dalli, Sai Liang and Chris Evans in the same category.
In so doing he is making a fool of himself which is neither here nor there.
The real problem is that he is turning himself into a veritable embarrassment and liability, internationally, for our country.
Daphne, you have recently highlighted this line in the article linked below.
“The Government said the Chinese were planning to use Enemalta employees to service other power stations that China has in the Mediterranean.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130925/local/Energy-investment-was-initiative-from-Chinese.487570
Can some journalist ask the PM or Konrad Mizzi about the exact locations of the “other power stations that China has in the Mediterranean”?
Of course, the journalist would also need to ask what fuel technology those power stations are using, hoping that they are not “cancer factories.”
Why is it that all over the civilized world, socialist and liberal movements are synonymous with academia and the sciences while in Malta it’s the opposite?
Here the socialists are the redneck, blathering idiot Luddites who understand nothing outside of their cosy little corrupt circle and who are afraid, and hence contemptuous, of all they do not understand.
By right, the liberals and socialists should be allies. But no, not in screwed-up Malta. Here the liberals have to get cosy with the religious fanatic conservatives because the socialists have been twisted beyond all recognition by that despot who still exerts his influence from beyond the grave. No wonder they admire the DPRK so much.
And here I was with all these grandiose dreams of the R&D centre Malta could have become, while that bloody idiotic peasant of a prime minister pisses on all his best talent while fawning over criminals and anti-democratic despotic regimes because he thinks that the best future for our children is to get a lifetime “chopp” in a Chinese factory, assembling PV panels from parts made in China.
The religious fanatic conservatives never really understood R&D so it’s not as if a Labour government will bring about a catastrophe in academia. Indeed, most academics never understood R&D either. They’re just sitting back in their tenured chair, milking the system for all it’s worth.
Oh and by the way, you swallowed too much PN bullshit if you really thought Malta would become an R&D centre.
At least the noises and apparent good will were there. Of course the system would have to be pushed. Of course there was the need of somebody with vision.
But it would have been possible.
Now it’s all gone.
Correction: The salaries, the staff, the political appointments, the media events were there. But there was little else besides.
When Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi laud China’s purchase of 35% of Enemalta, and the assembling of PV panels from parts made in China and shipped to Malta, I remember those times when Dom Mintoff announced to the nation with great pomp that the Chinese government had agreed to build the Red China Dock which was supposed to compete with the Japanese shipbuilding industry, and a chocolate (Desserta) factory. Eventually both investments proved to be massive flops.
Who knows what will be the fate of the new Chinese investment? Would it meet the same fate of the Red China Dock and the Desserta Factory? I hope not because a failure in the energy sector would have a disastrous effect on the whole Maltese nation.
I hope it does. I hope we fucking starve. Because what this country needs is shock treatment.
I hope the Maltese economy collapses, I hope the Chinese enslave everyone, I hope they take our homes, cars, flatscreen TVs, Xboxes and iPads. I hope they rape our wives and daughters, and I hope they lead us all in chains to the paddy-fields so we can pick rice for our new overlords.
China is the real enemy of Europe. And those fools Norman Lowell and Kevin Ellul Bonici go on about the Jews.
I hope they’ll make me work extra hard in the paddy-fields because I’d love to raise two fingers to the switchers, pimps, scoundrels and especially the Mintoffians and tell them “I was right, and you were wrong”.
And I’d raise two fingers to my Chinese guards too. Then I can finally smile as I watch them place electrodes to my testicles.
Then I can go to hell and meet Mintoff.
You forgot to mention the Ta Qali Carpet Factory and the Kappar industry.
George, you mention but two of the so-called Malta-China investments, when in fact only Malta was investing as all costs had to be repaid to China.
To those add the decorative glass factory in Marsa (another flop), the rattan works in Ta’ Qali (also a flop) and the biggest of all the 1000-worker Spinning and Weaving, also at Ta’ Qali (the major flop) where all machinery brought from China was only fit for scrap and where the building served up to some time ago as a counting hall during successive elections.
Bubu, I have already tried to get in touch with you through Daphne to no avail. I believe Malta is too small for those of us interested in real R&D to act independently, but together we will be able to make a difference. Should you wish to “join forces,” I’m sure Daphne could put us in touch.
Depends on what you mean by “join forces”. Mine isn’t that large of a force.
From an enviromental, health and safety perspective, are the emissions from the manufacturing of PV panels carcinogenic?
[Daphne – They are not to be made in Malta, but only assembled here from parts made in China. Read into that what you will.]