Comments on: Roderick Galdes – using his car and driver as a state-paid chauffeur service for his bank employee wife https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edwardborg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1722367 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:03:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1722367 In reply to QormiMan.

The HSBC Bank in question is the main branch, not the head office.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1719129 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 02:23:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1719129 Mela Malta mhux taghha ukoll?

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1719025 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:40:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1719025 In reply to anthony.

Yes fine, doesn’t mean breaking the leg at the knees of anyone in the vicinity. Which he did.

]]> By: anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1718417 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:27:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1718417 In reply to Jozef.

I hold no brief to defend Owen Bonnici but a car with its handbrake on can be moved by a couple of strong men.

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1718066 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:13:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1718066 In reply to Jozef.

It doesn’t take much actually. 10 Mph is more than enough, 25 can easily push it over a centre strip, more so if a largish car hits a much smaller stationary one.

]]> By: M. Cassar https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1717918 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:18:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1717918 Perhaps we should call a spade a spade and admit that the car, chauffeur, fuel, maintanence etc are paid for by our taxes.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1717720 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:01:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1717720 In reply to Jozef.

‘…Il-Ministeru ta’ Owen Bonnici qal li fil-post tal-inċident waslet il-Pulizija, li għamlet rapport bħalma jsir f’kull inċident ieħor. Dikjarazzjoni li tqanqal dubji għaliex baqgħet ma nħarget l-ebda stqarrija tal-Pulizija u min ħa din id-deċiżjoni. Il-każ ma ġiex rappurtat lanqas fuq il-paġna tal-Facebook tal-Korp tal-Pulizija. Dan hu t-tieni każ li fih, għal xi raġuni, il-Pulizija ħbiet dettalji dwar inċidenti serji tat-traffiku.

F’inċident ieħor, li seħħ il-Ħadd filgħaxija fi Triq il-Beżbiżija fil-Mosta, tifla ta’ tmien snin spiċċat fil-periklu li titlef ħajjitha. Madankollu, kemm fl-istqarrija mibghuta lill-media kif ukoll fuq il-post fil-Paġna tal-Korp fuq Facebook, il-Pulizija qalet biss li seħħet ħabta bejn vettura tat-tip Toyota Corolla u Ford Focus, misjuqa minn żagħżugħ ta’ 23 sena mis-Swieqi.

Iżda l-istqarrija ma qalitx li l-Ford Focus involuta fil-ħabta, u li ħalliet lit-tifla fil-periklu li titlef ħajjitha, hi vettura tal-Korp tal-Pulizija u s-sewwieq jidher li kien Pulizija tar-Rapid Intervention Unit…..’

Something similar happened in Gozo the weekend of the 31st March, another hit and run and the policeman involved heard gloating he won’t obey any instructions issued from Floriana. He was supposed to report to Floriana following the accident but is still in Gozo.

Shades of SMU.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1717703 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:55:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1717703 In reply to Jozef.

http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=Il%2DGvern+u+l%2DPulizija+ja%26%23295%3Bbu+g%26%23295%3Bal+%26%23295%3Bamest+ijiem+in%26%23267%3Bident+tat%2Dtraffiku+li+fih+kien+involut+Owen+Bonnici&t=a&aid=99855556&cid=19

]]> By: gaetano pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1716700 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:05:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1716700 Incidentally, now we know which road maps they were referring to during their election campaign. Newly recruited drivers had to have road maps that led to gyms, football pitches, banks, supermarkets and other exigencies of the service.

]]> By: QormiMan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/roderick-galdes-using-his-car-and-driver-as-a-state-paid-chauffeur-service-for-his-bank-employee-wife/#comment-1716081 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:53:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45810#comment-1716081 And she lives nearly across the road in St Benedict Street to be exact.

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