Comments on: The Malta Taghna Lkoll appointment to top them all

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:00:15 +0000

If this is the model of due diligence that will be adopted in the sale-of-citizenship scheme, then God help us all.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:56:56 +0000

In reply to P Shaw. Exactly.

By: Calculator

Calculator — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:51:54 +0000

In reply to Joe Fenech. Naħseb it-tnejn li huma qatt ma kienu hemm fil-verita', ħlief forsi fl-immaġinazzjoni ta' min ivvotalhom.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:49:28 +0000

In reply to Francis Saliba MD. Can you feel the tide of retribution shoring up?

By: Veronica

Veronica — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:40:05 +0000

I see. That explains the appointment on procedural grounds to an extent. As far as I know headship posts are normally only filled after a call for applications on the basis of very stringent criteria.

It would be interesting to know whether this is a direct appointment or not.

Whatever the case, to appoint a person with such a track-record to this sensitive or indeed any other senior post is a new low.

It is one thing when we are dealing with political appointments in secretariats but this is a permanent post in the Public Service. Shame, but unfortunately more of what we have come to expect.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:53:53 +0000

It is becoming a hallmark of Muscat’s “new” Labour Party to consort with international fraudsters and with local notorious rouge elements not by accident but as established modus operandi as if this anti-social behaviour were some “meritorious” qualification.

What bare-faced shameless arrogance..

By: Veronica

Veronica — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:49:06 +0000

And what has become of the Public Service Commission and Public Service engagement procedures?

If I am understanding the report correctly this individual is not currently a public officer and is now being appointed to a headship post in a Government department. On what basis has this been done?

[Daphne – As I recall, when the court had ordered the reinstatement of the three dismissed police officers into the police force, Commissioner Rizzo refused to have them back in the force on the grounds that they posed a risk. Portelli was reinstated in the civil service, David Gatt had since become a lawyer and is now facing trial on suspected involvement in a bank robbery, and I have no idea what became of the other one.]

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:40:06 +0000

Tilfu mhux ir-roadmap biss imma anke mohhhom.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:42:45 +0000

Who is Ivan Portelli? What is his relation to the Labour Party? Who is the ‘somebody high up in the government had cleared a path for Mr Portelli’?

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:40:08 +0000

In reply to Antoine Vella. I believe you're correct. Scandal and mediocrity are what we routinely expect from a Labour government.