Comments on: The Azeri president’s daughter and the Maltese prime minister’s wife

By: Alf

Alf — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:36:29 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. See photo in fifth link above and tell me why they are admiring a monkey / baboon.

By: Not Sandy:P

Not Sandy:P — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:53:14 +0000

In reply to observer. The plane was in Malta overnight. It arrived on 17th February and left on the 18th. It is Azerbaijan government property.

By: Eric le Rouge

Eric le Rouge — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:06:32 +0000

In reply to observer. @Observer, refer to them as "Azerbaijani" not 'Azeri", lest they get offended.

By: Eric le Rouge

Eric le Rouge — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:05:22 +0000

In reply to La Redoute. Got a taste of what doing business in Aliyev's fiefdom is all about. Once bitten....

By: gigi

gigi — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:14:28 +0000

Hawn hi, illum jien gejt.

By: observer

observer — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:06:17 +0000

Whilst the Azeri pilot was seeing to his plane’s replenishing with jet fuel, his ‘esteemed’ passenger (and, presumably, a handful of comrades, security, etc) were replenishing their maws with bottlefuls of bubbly.

I presume the crowd of admirers who were called in to view the exhibition and while away the ‘esteemed’ passenger’s time (remember, always during the plane’s refueling, we are told) had their share too.

In Maltese we say ‘billu wahda grizmejhom sew’

Quite a ‘harmless’ occasion – giving, at least, a little publicity to Malta in the process.

But, and a big BUT, why on earth was the Maltese public informed simply that the Azerbaijan plane had ‘landed for refueling?’

Can’t our (apologies for the possessive adjective) government ever tell people the truth?

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:53:06 +0000

I am impressed by the collaboration, the contributions, the camaraderie of this blog.

In four lines, in a couple of seconds, more news reaches us than 24 hours of Super One Spinning manage to broadcast. More impressive is the excellent use of the international media, be it a newspaper, be it the internet. I must say, this is journalism in a class of its own. Inimitable.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:53:47 +0000

Wikileaks on the Aliyevs’ Mafia- style business operations.

By: Fed up

Fed up — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:17:47 +0000

BBC World service some three weeks ago carried a whole expose of this woman, her gangster like business methods, her millions and her dramatic falling out with her sibling. Her international business dealings are on the wane. Welcome to Malta.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:51:22 +0000

I thought it was an emergency landing for refuelling.

No, it wasn’t was it?

It was a lightening visit by the daughter of the undisputed king of international corruption. Toto Reina is a Pinocchio compared to him.

This lady’s father (and his father before him) is the epitome of all that is abhorrent in a human being.

She must have come to collect the family passports.

What talent.

Give us more of the same.

I wonder whether the consort pm had any idea of who she was associating herself with.