An event like this would normally be subcontracted to a company who will already have a list of contacts in the particular field. they will therefore be able to guarantee a number of attendees.

They will clearly not cold-call people on the off-chance that they will fill seats with bums.

This ‘summit’, like all that Labour has been proposing over the last few months, will be a flop.

As far as i am aware, protocol dictates that you do not invite the Opposition to an office opening event. If anything they get a separate invitation to visit the office on a separate occasion… but again I stand to be corrected.

[Daphne – Private companies are not subject to protocol but to basic good manners, and so can ask whoever they like to their parties, the only requirement being that there is no person whose presence compromises anyone else or embarrasses them – e.g. a convicted criminal.]

Additionally, couldn’t they have organised it in-house? Are they so lacking in skills, networks and the basic know-how that this entails or so untrusting of those who do have the skills and experience?

All this is so messy and unprofessional, compounded on the basic tenet that it is simply not the way to hold such a gathering. Who on earth is advising them?

Bizzejjed, qed ngharaf lil ziti f’dak ir-ritratt!

The typical Maltese is a ‘facciol’. Just a few days ago we had the opening of the new premises of a company whose boss was in the front line in the Nationalist Party’s election campaign. He invited a Joseph and Co. for the occasion but not one from the opposition.

I presume that it is for this simple reason that Signor Rizzo is turning on other companies inviting them to attend.

Membri mill-ministeru ghall-Ghawdex qed icemplu lill-iskejjel kollha primarja, 14 biex jiehdu sehem u ta’ dan jiehdu 1000 ewro.

Bil-patt li joqoghdu ghal dak li jghidilihom il-kumitat fosthom li fil-karnival tas-Sibt it-tfal iridu jiehdu sehem filghodu u filghaxija fir-Rabat. Qeghdin joffru li jhallsu lil min ser jghallem id-danza u lill min ser ihit il-kostumi.

Il-kostumi jridu jkunu maghmulin minn materjal riciklat u t-tehma trid tkun Ghawdex.

A turncoat? Or a reminder of when Malta really was Taghna Lkoll?