How awful – Jason Micallef in charge of the ‘master plan’ for Valletta
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March 8, 2014 at 10:04pm
The ineptocracy is in full swing. Here’s the press release: 06.03.14 – Valletta masterplan launch EN
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To me it sounds as though this press release was issued as a way of forcing central government to commit to what Jason & Herrera want, which might actually differ from what central government wants.
Once issued, government can’t pull back, you know, exactly the same way Jason was appointed!
It seems that the government issues ‘expressions of interest’ in the hope of getting ideas what to do and how to work them out.
No concrete plans of what is to be done, in the press release.
Final Solution would be more apt.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-08/malaysia-airlines-beijing-flight-with-239-aboard-goes-missing.html
Why should two parliamentary secretaries and the principal permanent secretary be standing behind the V18 chairman?
Tutto sotto sopra. Shouldn’t the PS for Culture or the PS for Planning be running the show ?
“”As the search continues for a Malaysian Airlines plane that went missing on Friday two hours into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, oil slicks have been seen off Vietnam.
Officials are investigating the identities of four passengers after it emerged that two people boarded the Boeing 777-200 using stolen European passports.””
http://news.sky.com/story/1222942/malaysia-planes-four-suspect-passengers
Who knows whether, next time,, something similar will happen with BOUGHT Maltese passports?
And, imagine if we have absolutely no trace of them.
How absolutely true.
“In my book, however, to run a country on fear and fear alone will not work, not in the long term. People, key people, will focus more on keeping out of the leader’s way rather than on giving sterling work. Sooner or later, all activity will grind to a halt and everyone will look to the leader to lead. The followers will be vociferous in attacking presumed hostile persons, hoping to get Brownie points by that. But otherwise they will leave the business of managing the country, attaining goals and reaching targets to him and only as far as he allows them to do things.
This, of course, is a far cry from what parliamentary democracy is supposed to be about but this is Malta, a country of autocratic grand masters, ruthless governors, absolutist prime ministers who ran the country into the ground. We have been here already.”
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-03-09/opinions/an-exercise-in-superiority-4191027201/
It gets better by the minute. Weren’t we promised ‘a gvern gdid, gvern zghazugh u politika gdida’? Another Taghna Lkoll appointment.
Former Tourism Minister Joe Grima has been appointed special envoy of the prime minister to the United Nations World Trade Organisation. (Times of Malta)
Mobocracy even.
The great V.18 strategist, backed by today’s version of the three stooges, has been graciously pleased to address a bunch of sychophants (or simply a forced audience) to expound on the outstanding merits of labor’s plans to bring Strait Street to its former historic ‘glory’.
Interesting piece on TimesofMalta.com
“Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s official adviser on international affairs has close links to the regime of deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Dutchman Robert Van de Water is an adviser to former Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov, who resigned in January as protests sparked by the decision not to sign a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU continued to grow.
Mr Van de Water still lists himself as an adviser to Mr Azarov on his LinkedIn profile.
On February 2, anti-Yanukovych protesters demonstrated outside the house of Mr Azarov, who had fled to Austria.
In a meeting with Mr Yanukovych in September, Mr Van de Water was one of four people photographed in the Maltese delegation. The others were Dr Muscat, Foreign Minister George Vella and Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness Edward Zammit Lewis.
According to the government’s head of communications, Mr Van de Water’s advice to the ex-Ukrainian prime minister “was strictly limited to the realisation of the reforms requested by the European Union for the signing of the EU/Ukraine Association Agreement. Mr Van de Water ended his appointment as adviser to the Ukrainian government on November 29, 2013, after Ukraine failed to sign the agreement.”
Mr Van de Water does not receive remuneration for his services, although the Office of the Prime Minister reimburses “travel, accommodation and subsistence” expenses.
In January, a Ukrainian man living in the US e-mailed the Maltese government imploring it to reconsider its business relationship with the adviser, saying: “In the past, Mr Van de Water was a vocal supporter of Leonid Kuchma, then the president of Ukraine, whose authoritarian rule ended in 2004 in massive protests that became known as the Orange Revolution.”
Mr Van de Water is married to Ina Kirsch, who heads the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine. This Brussels-based organisation is described in the international media as being sympathetic to Mr Yanukovych and his political party, the Party of Regions.
According to the Daily Beast, he was the only speaker who was positive about the Yanukovych government at a symposium on Ukraine’s role in the US Congress organised by the US-Ukraine Foundation in December.
The Sunday Times of Malta was unable to contact Mr Van de Water and questions sent to his wife went unanswered.”
Talented young Maltese – run away! Don’t let the country drain you.
Master plan for Valletta and the environs: rickshaw transport instead of horse-pulled karozzini for animal lovers. Pastizzi, bigilla, hobz biz-zejt and imqaret vendors near Piano’s city gate. Soft drink dispensers at every crossroad.
The regeneration of Strait Street: turn it into China Town.
Ideas and proposals for the use of the old Valletta market (is-Suq): sheltered, VAT free, counterfeit products market.