Silvio and Deandra Schembri ride the gravy train
Silvio and Deandra Schembri at their wedding a couple of years ago, with the Labour leader.
Silvio and Deandra Schembri with Silvio’s parents and the Labour leader
Labour MP Silvio Schembri’s wife Deandra has been given a job as desk officer grade 1 at the Malta Financial Services Authority, with effect from two days ago, despite being in the last few weeks of pregnancy.
Or perhaps it’s because she’s in the last few weeks of pregnancy and has been accommodated by the government/Malta Financial Services Authority before she has the baby and not afterwards so that she can claim maternity leave a few weeks into her brand-new job.
Deandra and her husband, a first-time MP who unseated his uncle Charlie Mangion (now back in parliament in Marie Louise Coleiro’s vacated seat) have been much in the news over the last few days because of the way they’re calling appointments from a friendly government and its various outposts, despite both being in their 20s.
Silvio Schembri is government-appointed chairman of parliament’s Economic and Financial Affairs Committee, to which the governor of the Central Bank reports. He is government-appointed chairman of the Responsible Gaming Foundation, and a consultant in the Ministry for Competitiveness and Economic Growth. He is also a part-time lecturer at the university.
Deandra Schembri is a government-appointed member of the Police Board and government-appointed chairman of the Refugee Appeals Board. This week she was also put on the full-time payroll of the Malta Financial Services Authority, with a full-time job which she will retain even when Labour is voted out of government, because it is not a political appointment but a regular job.
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What was David Zammit saying again?
Inhaltu halli ngawdu dejjem.
This is similar to Miriam Dalli being paid by the government for one year until she is elected as an MEP.
Is anyone questioning her during the campaign visits or the press tours, whether she is still being paid by the government while campaigning. The same applies to her campaign manager and ex-Super One colleague David Gatt, who will probably be emplyed in her office in Brussels after the election.
Jo was less chubby back then.
Xi hlew jahasra. Kemm qed inhossni progressiv.
Saw the t**ser on Super 1 this morning, telling the viewers that he’s off to court to file libel suits against the PN for harassment. Unbelievable. They can dish it out but they can’t take it.
I would love to see that, because nothing works better than the Streisand Effect.
Something doesn’t add up – Let us assume that a person to fill in a role as Grade 1 desk officer was really needed, why would MFSA employ someone who. in a couple of weeks will no longer be able to go to work due to maternity leave?
I was always told that assumption is the mother of all f*** ups so rather than assuming, let us state the facts that yet again the Government is (as in the case of BOV) also tainting the independent financial services regulator with politics and jobs ‘ghan-nies tal- qalba’. Shame on you. The issue everyone seems to be missing here is that MFSA is an independent regulator and not a government entity. This clearly impinges on the stability and the public perception of MFSA.
On a separate note Silvio Schembri and his wife clearly have no self respect. These two should realise that people like them who are being given constantly appointments and consultancy roles by the government are only proving that they are not worthy of the professions they represent and have to rely on Big daddy Joseph to provide them with jobs on a silver platter. They will never have respect by fellow professionals since unfortunately they are making sure that they will be known as the couple who made a name for themselves only because they are in the trusted circle of Joseph Muscat.
nd members of my family can’t find one suitable job.
Strictly speaking, she’s not entitled to maternity leave unless she’s been in the job for at least a year.
We shouldn’t complain. We have two cents off every litre of petrol to play with from June to December – if we use petrol.
Yes, we can die a few cents richer when we set fire to ourselves in front of Castille.
For this is what we’ve come to. Just like Tibet.
His wedding attire sums the guy up.
He calls himself an economist – “A generally accepted interpretation in academia is that an economist is one who has attained a Ph.D. in economics, teaches economic science, and has published literature in a field of economics” source Wikipedia. Malta tal-bluffers ukoll.
I am married to Joseph too.
Dissident
It’s not a PhD that makes a top notch professional but professionalism, attitude, personality… Schembri lacks these and indeed any track record required for the positions he occupies.
Klikka was changed to a new Klikka and jobs for the NEW blue eyed boys.
So we are ‘as we were’. Where is the change? I also know for a fact (when Labour friends of mine were employed ..also high up) that the Nationalists were not half as bad as these in such matters.