Read Norman Hamilton’s CV on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website: DJ and ‘Song for Europe’ chairman
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October 13, 2013 at 1:23am
You just have to read Norman Hamilton’s l-o-n-g and irrelevant CV on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. He even includes his chairmanship of the Malta Song for Europe contest and whatever it was he did with Tony Blackburn in 1996.
A whole patafjum to say ‘I worked in TV and radio for Labour for four decades’ – perfect as a high commissioner, then.
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http://www.foreign.gov.mt/default.aspx?MDIS=405
“He is the chairman and CEO of one of Malta’s leading tour operators, Hamilton Travel, a family business which he set up in 1992. ”
Errmmm… CEO of a travel company and high-commissioner? Is that allowed?
http://www.foreign.gov.mt/Default.aspx?MDIS=45
Why is this jackass being referred to as ‘designate’?
“our man in London” – what a sad, crass and tasteless country. At least I wasn’t born in Africa, but that’s about it.
I would say that the ‘BBC training in London’ (1968) made him the perfect candidate for HC, no?
They are shameless.
He forgot to mention that he spent a couple of years as a doorman in one of Soho’s nightclub/strip shows. I am sure that he will include this part in his illustrious CV when he presents his credentials to the queen.
That was Clive Waters.
Don’t know where the “high” came from. The stuff he played during those 40 years was pretty tame.
Good use of the software ‘Perfect portrait’, increase the glow and smooth the wrinkles, makes one look years younger!
Come on! He must have attached his school leaving certificate?!
Is it legal to use the government website to advertise his company? That is exactly what he is doing here,prestigious award for this, first to do that and so on.
Nothing new here, just a Maltese person trying to impress others with his CV.
In my line of work, I attend plenty of conferences with Maltese and foreign speakers. Sometimes the speakers’ CVs are attached to the conference programme to entice attendees and sign up for the conference.
Invariably, the foreign speakers’ (usually British, German or Italian) CVs are short but relevant. However, you always find a Maltese speaker or two who submits a neverending CV listing every paper or article he’s submitted and every recognition (however minor) he received.
It can get quite nauseous.
Impressive. FIDOF was set up in post-Tito communist Yugoslavia. Enough said. And WAFA? Well, take a look at this…
http://www.wafainternational.com/DisplayNewsItem.aspx?folderId=NF2009829627579
A CV more suited to somebody aiming to replace Pippo Baudo.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/budget2014/Deficit-down-by-70-million-in-first-eight-months-2013-20130927
I read his CV and two questions immediately came to mind.
First. How does one graduate from St Aloysius College? In 1960 not even sixth form existed. It started much later at this particular school. Bet the foreign office would not know this and would not bothered to check.
[Daphne – Something wrong with that date. He was born in 1941, so unless he was particularly dull and repeated year on year, he would have left that school at 16 in 1957. In 1960, he was 19.]
Secondly. He mentioned every band club and village pantomime he was involved in. He is best known as a radio DJ and TV presenter. He writes and boasts about this at length. And yet fails to mention the culmination of any DJ’s career especially in the 1960s. The fact that he was a DJ in Soho. Or was it something else?
Here he is talking about his high career as a diplomat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZobJZdCRVJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC2L6EQanM8
CV tal-bigilla. Lots of non-events and obscure idiotic awards. Clive Waters makes it to Piccadilly.
U kif ma jisthiex jaghmel reklam ghax xoghol privat tieghu fuq website tal-Gvern Malti?
Veru ma ghandhomx zejt f’wicchom dawn in-nies.
Tal-biki….it just lacks diplomacy. Perhaps he could have had a look at the biography of the British High Commissioner in Malta for some ideas of a diplomat’s CV.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/rob-luke
He’s put everything in there except the fact that he had a hopeless singing career under the stage name of Clive Waters.
WAFA is a provincial outfit sponsored by Hamilton Travel. Its website is entirely in Maltese – not a glamorous, global association, then.
Norman Hamilton li sar Clive Waters u li beda ikanta fuq il-latrina ta’ Ghar id-Dud wara il-privat tat-touch typing ghand is-Sur Cutugno. Bil-fors ghandu isir High Commissioner jekk jaf it-touch typing.
I saw him several times buying wine in bulk at our village store. I did not recognize him, in spite of seeing him on TV. I only realized who he is from his voice. He looked quite old and frail. I don’t know how he is going to have the needed energy to work as a High Commissioner.