A nostalgic photograph of 10 mils – 20% more than Muscat’s two-cent rohs fenomenali (not allowing for inflation)
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May 1, 2014 at 7:51pm
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The mils themselves are more valuable than the rohs fenomenali.
The clowns in government should start labeling their press conferences in the same way they used to give a decorative name to each budget during the eighties.
Yesterday’s press conference could be labeled as “Il-press conference tat-tieni Anglu Gabriel”.
Il-press conference tal-fissazzjoni tat-2cents.
While it’s good news Baxter is adding 190 staff , a year ago it was announced that they are shedding 97. Why is it no reporter asks questions . It seems no one bothers to google before they attend a press conference .
When the ‘off with their heads’ scenario becomes a possibility, Googling is not desirable.
Is it at all pertinent to observe that Enemalta, unlike normal practice, has NOT issued a press release with the changes to the gas prices.
I am purposely not referring to fuel prices since these will be effective 1st July. But I am to believe that the new gas price of the 12kg cylinder is effective as from today. Or is it not? Hence no press release as is normal.
1st July?
How will we survive without the 2 cents till then?
I want it all and I want it now.
Let’s be fair to KMB – take inflation into account and you’ll find that his ‘rohs tat-tonn taz-zejt’ was a much better deal than Joseph’s.
Were those coins minted by Jo’s beloved “soldiers of steel” ?
He is too young to remember those rusty soldiers of the Mintoff era.
Or is that the name of a gay bar that he hangs out in ?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140501/local/its-time-for-the-soldiers-of-steel-to-prove-themselves-once-again-prime-minister.517255
This whole issue is a perfect example of a politician whose head is firmly stuck in his arse.
Gvern tal-habba gozz.
Yesterday I attended the celebration organised by the PN of the 10-year anniversary of Malta’s membership in EU in St George’s Square. The Square was not full, but there was a considerable good audience.
It was heartening to watch MPs mingling with the crowd.
Today there was a PN fundraising marathon, and €309,000 were raised.
Slow and steady wins the race.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/05/01/e309093-migbura-fil-maratona-gbir-ta-fondi/
€309,000 !
Now I can carcade if my favourite team wins the World Cup.
At St. Vincent de Paule Home for the Elderly, certain nurses are lobbying for Labour candidates with patients who have mild to moderate dementia. The flyers of PN candidates are immediately thrown away before being distributed, unlike the ones of PL candidates.
The patients are not allowed to watch Net TV but only Super One, and the only newspaper distributed is L-Orizzont.
Can someone investigate these and many other similar abuses, please?
That’s two mils too much.
2 euro cents = 8 mils Maltin.
That’s precisely tuppence, “żewġ soldi” or colloquially, “ġissoldi”.
Read the title, kev.
Ikkumpatih, miskin.
I know, ciccio. The title flipped the moment I clicked the send button. Unbelievable! Mhux ta’ b’xejn jghidulha sahhura.
I first read about the news that Jo had reduced the price of petrol on The Malta Independent online. At about 10.00am on 30 April, TMI published a headline stating that Jo had called a 10.15am press conference at the Auberge de Castille, and soon afterwards, they updated it saying something along the lines that “and the big news is a reduction in the price of petrol by 2 cents.”
My first thought was that Libya’s oil production and exports had returned to normal, and that the agreement signed some time last year by Jo with his Libyan counterpart, Ali Zeidan, had come into force. But there was no reference to Libya in the press conference coverage.
Did any of the journalists ask about the progress on fuel purchases at special prices from Libya?
Konrad Shame on Him Mizzi was very confident that Malta would be buying cheap fuels from Libya by the beginning of 2014.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-09-04/news/malta-may-purchase-oil-products-at-preferential-rates-from-next-year-2502000640/
“Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi said today that it’s highly probable that Malta can buy oil products from Libya at preferential rates as from the beginning of next year.”
This was Konrad Mizzi in September 2013.
Tell them the truth. How could Enemalta afford to reduce the price of fuel when it is bankrupt? Even if it is bankrolled by the Government, it is obliged to recover its fixed costs over a period of time?
Enemalta has huge debts which are not being repaid.
Living a big lie.
I know it is late in the day but the only comment to make on this eight mil price cut is “massive”
Ahh the mils coins – made out of the cheapest and thinnest sheet metal, you could literally bend it in your hands.
Enumilju actually.
I had a nice dream where the prime minister gave us all €7,000 allowance per annum for our car like he took for himself.
Arithmetic test problem for class 4 pupils:
Grandpa did not receive his free medicine because it is out of stock and he has to pay for it himself. It costs €9.50 per packet.
He uses petrol in his car on which he has started to save €0.02 per litre after the government indulged in a reckless orgy of largesse.
If grandpa’s car covers 8km per litre, how many kilometres must grandpa drive to save enough money to buy one packet of pills?
All together now:
“Aghtuna x-xoghol, aghtuna nieklu, aghtuna dak li ggielidna ghalih.”
Bla bla dee bla tum tum dee dum dum…
And then some European countries were considering removing their one and two cent coins from circulation because they were more expensive to produce than they are actually worth.