Taghna Lkoll update: the Fat Controller’s companion has been made chairman of the Data Protection Appeals Tribunal
Lynn Zahra
Dom Mintoff’s cabinet minister Joe Grima: his lady companion has just been appointed chairman of the Data Protection Appeals Tribunal
Lynn Zahra, who has lived for years with ex Labour cabinet minister (he was in the cabinets of both PM Dom Mintoff and PM KMB) Joe Grima and who has a daughter by him, has been appointed chairman of the Information and Data Protection Appeals Tribunal, for a three-year term.
The appointment was made by Minister Helena Dalli in terms of the Data Protection Act, and it was announced in the Government Gazette on 31 January.
Miss Zahra’s most recent involvement in a data protection episode was when she went to the Sliema police station to enquire about the possibility of having criminal action taken against me for calling her septuagenarian boyfriend fat, as in the Fat Controller (she clearly never read Thomas the Tank Engine to their daughter) and was recorded by somebody present telling the police officers that miskin, he’s not fat. He has “a condition”. “They only do this to us because we’re Labour,” she said.
No, actually, Miss Zahra. It’s because I remember your companion only too well in his earlier incarnation as one of Dom Mintoff’s most appalling cabinet ministers – if you can call them cabinet ministers, given that cabinet never met under Mintoff’s premiership.
The Fat Controller’s most recent episode? Writing an ‘open letter’ to Fr Alexander Lucie Smith on Facebook, telling him to “f*ck off” (without the asterisk) and suggesting that he and all priests are kiddy-fiddlers and more in the same vein. This was because Alexander Lucie Smith wrote a piece about Dom Mintoff for the Catholic Herald, following Mintoff’s death.
Because of this episode of oh-so-typical crass vulgarity, the Fat Controller had to give up his Super One TV show. The general election was just months away and the Labour Party was concerned about votes. Now, as we know, it wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about what people think – which is why Grima’s lady companion has been slotted into a chairmanship to make up for it, and of an appeals tribunal on data protection, no less.
This government is such a safe pair of hands.
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Well, everyone knows what this fat bastard was up to when he was not so fat, and what a bully he was. In just one of several incidents, he walked into the Broadcasting Authority offices and hit somebody. But that is not the point, because we never expected better of him.
About 15 years ago, when Lynn Zahra and Big Fat Joe had a boat on Manoel Island at the Baldacchino shipyard, Miss Zahra had a problem with the yard’s owners and I witnessed a shocking fight when for once the Fatty stood quiet while his companion fought and swore. She would have put a group of sailors to shame.
Now this character is appointed Chairman of the Data Protection Appeals Tribunal. U fiex wasalna. Scraping the bottom.
He can’t reach that far.
Perhaps now our new data protection chairman will investigate why Malta Resources Authority wireman’s licence holders were asked to provide a police conduct certificate.
[Daphne – Miss Zahra is not the data protection commissioner but chairman of the appeals tribunal. She does not investigate, but chairs the tribunal which hears appeals on data protection cases.]
What does the Malta Resources Authority need the police conduct certificate for? If a licensed electrician was found guilty in a criminal court case, would the electrician’s licence be withdrawn? I think that would be an extra punishment.
If a prisoner wants to study to become an electrician, would he or she be denied a licence?
We have appointed a minister to reduce and simplify bureaucracy. How is it that this escaped him?
Go get them Lynn and show them your mettle.
Condition? I recall someone who worked at his ministry back in the 1980s telling me that they nicknamed him “Il-Qazquz” (the piglet) because the first order he gave when he moved in was to have a small refrigerator stuffed with food delivered to his office.
When refusing to release information under the Freedom of Information Act, government has cited data protection concerns without specifying what those are. Ms Zahra is now well positioned to back up those facetious claims.