Carrying on with his state-paid personal assistant, and now, a contract for his bodyguard-cum-driver
The chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, who thinks it perfectly acceptable that the chairman should conduct a full-blown relationship with his personal assistant because Malta is still backward in these matters and the mores of the 1970s apply, not those of the 21st century, has now gone one further.
There’s a sign up in the Malta Council for Science and Technology car park, saying ‘This area is protected by Executive Security’. Executive Security is the bouncer and security company owned, at least on paper, by Stephen Ciangura’s mother. Elderly Maltese women of a certain background are so very enterprising these days; they’re interested in so much more than Vileda mops and Mastro Lindo.
Ciangura himself works for the company, which is how he ended up in a brawl in which somebody’s jaw was broken, while he was providing bouncer services at the nightclub Gianpula, which is owned by Saviour Balzan’s fellow 50-50 shareholder in Malta Today.
But Ciangura, who is mysteriously STILL a soldier with the Armed Forces of Malta (he is a bombardier) is also the chairman of the Malta Council of Science and Technology’s bodyguard and driver. We all remember the scenes outside the Nationalist Party headquarters, when he was prevented from entering the building with his charge, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. More recently, this blog has published pictures of him sitting outside Pavi supermarket in the driving-seat of Pullicino Orlando’s car, waiting for Pullicino Orlando to do the grocery shopping.
As a footnote, Pullicino Orlando went to the Kuwait National Day reception last Thursday evening accompanied by his personal assistant Lara Boffa, with whom he wandered about hand in hand. He would have been invited by the Kuwaiti embassy in his official role as chairman of the MCST. How did he introduce Miss Boffa, I wonder – as his personal assistant? Most of the fellow guests would have assumed that she was the woman he married 18 months ago, after his major hullabaloo about bringing in a divorce law for this express purpose.
Damn shame Miss Nicola Abela Garrett wasn’t around to pop out from behind the bar, vodka in hand, and yell ‘What a f**king w**ker.’ Because you know, he really is one. Malta is full of them, but we need a carnival float with Pullicino Orlando as the king of them all.
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Miss Boffa’s contract with MCST is a package, you know.
Is it a large package then? Chortle, chortle.
Yes. His package.
Shameless brazenness, but this seems to be an asset if one wants to belong to the “Malta taghna lkoll” clique.
Is there any chance that the MCST car park can be turned into an open air discotheque?
The bouncing and security services seem to be already in place.
And with a tenant like Jaffrey, one never knows…
What is your email address, please?
[Daphne – [email protected]]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152146797616390&set=a.75162976389.76408.544431389&type=1&relevant_count=1
Kiteb: L-ewwel darba l-ground u mhux nara l-Hamrun.
U c-chairman tal-Kunsill Malti Ghal Sport, ghal giehna.
Fuq tlieta toqod il- borma. Franco is bracing himself.
What?! A newspaper editor/journalist owning a nightclub?
[Daphne – Newspaper proprietor, not editor or journalist.]
Didn’t know that. But doesn’t he also write articles / conduct interviews – he’s not simply ‘behind the scenes’.
How nice! Is this being paid out of Malta’s much-vaunted research budget?
Meanwhile, has the government and its Chief Communications Coconut issued any statement about the developments in the Ukraine, and about Mr. Yanukovych’s “postponed” visit to Malta?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131206/local/ukraines-yanukovich-postpones-malta-trip-over-domestic-turmoil-statement.497869
Mr. Yanukovych was one of the few dictators visited personally by prime minister Joseph Muscat since he took office in March 2013. The delegations from both sides pictured here in Kiev:
http://292fc373eb1b8428f75b-7f75e5eb51943043279413a54aaa858a.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/e50ceb3b632478ffd1a10db4c27705a11149666646-1378297677-5227274d-620×348.jpg
The Ukrainian Parliament has today voted to have Mr. Yanukovych tried at the International Criminal Court.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26333587
Mr. Yanukovych is the one pictured on the left here:
http://www.gov.mt/en/Government/Press%20Releases/Press%20Photos/PublishingImages/2013/September/04/OPM_04092013_01.jpg
Reminds me that after a visit to the Ukraine recently, Maltese foreign affairs minister George Vella said that the situation in Kiev was extremely calm, there were no signs of a revolution, and that he only saw a few young people demonstrating peacefully.
Can Opposition MPs raise a Parliamentary Question to the government on whether Mr. Yanukovych or members of his family were among the applicants for, or those granted, a Maltese EU passport?
Mrs.JPO Mark3 in the making?
Make it 2.2. The 2.1 version is out there again with the boys.