A couple of cabinet ministers are doing the same – but ssshhhh, we’re not allowed to say anything
And what to say of somebody who is not a cabinet minister, but who is chairman of a state council, and used his position to put his girlfriend on the payroll there?
We can say this, because it is a notorious fact: Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Lara Boffa. Meanwhile the Health and Energy Minister put Pullicino Orlando’s wife on the public payroll at a state corporation.
Tahwid ta’ barra minn hawn.
And as an update, the senior police officer who had a years-long secret affair with Magistrate Consuelo Herrera while they were both married to others has resigned from the force and last March was appointed ‘chief officer for investigations and enforcement’ at the Lotteries & Gaming Authority, which is in the portfolio of Parliamentary Secretary Jose Herrera, her brother.
Meanwhile, the contract for legal services at the Lotteries & Gaming Authority has been given to Labour Party campaigner Ramona ‘Jghodd Dak Li Taf U Mhux Min Taf’ Frendo.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/07/29/senate_debates_sanctions_against_tory_who_hired_girlfriend.html
I hear on the grapevine that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando may lead next year’s Pantomime “Ebenezer’s Ghosts” co-starring Marlene Farrugia as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Carmen Ciantar as the Ghost of Christmas Present and Lara Boffa as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (you should have picked another man, Lara).
Canada is Canada but “Malta Taghna Lkoll” isn’t what the Labour Party pretends it to be.
“Meritokrazija zero” qalet Ramona ‘Jghodd Dak Li Taf U Mhux Min Taf’ Frendo. Eżatt kif qalet Ramona.
Possibbli għadha fis-sakra tar-rebħa, li lanqas qed tara li hi stess qiegħda fejn qiegħda mhux għax jgħodd dak li taf (u mur ara kemm taf!) iżda għax jgħodd lil min taf.
Jew inkella… m’hix qed tarah l-isparpaljar tal-flus, ibda minnha u spiċċa f’dawk kollha tal-madwar?! M’iniex se noqgħod insemmi fejn qed isir l-isparpaljar bl-addoċċ, imbagħad m’hemmx flus għall-elezzjoni tal-kunsilli.
Bil-liġi tal-konsumatur l-ebda negozju ma jista’ jagħmel riklami qarrieqa għax jiġi mmultat. Tgħid x’multa irid jeħel il-moviment li vvutat għalih
Ramona tar-riklami qarrieqa kollha li bellgħalna qabel l-elezzjoni u f’dawn is-sena u nofs?
Tgħid il-poplu jintebaħ fil-ħin b’liema qerq u ingann imlielna moħħna ( ta’ min mela)..u jwaħħluh multa papali! Nistennew u naraw.
Taghmel kollox ghall-partit dik. Niftakar fit-tmeninijiet fl-Imnarja meta l-Gvern ta’ dawk iz-zminijiet keccew li-nies ghax ma dahlux ghax-xoghol fl-Imnarja u xi hadd qalilha “mhux sew dawn ghandhom il-familja” u hi qalet “huma ghandhom il-familja u ahna ghandna il-partit”. F’dak l-ambjent trabbiet Ramona Frendo.
Ha nispecifika, kienet ommha li qalet dawn il-kliem. Kienet involuta sew fill-Kumitat tal-Partit Laburista fiz-Zejtun. U dan fl-aghar zmien meta kulhadd kien jibza jidhol iz-Zejtun minhabba il-kriminali li invadew r-rahal grazzi ghal Wistin Abela.
Is there any code of this sort in Malta? No! Probably the government is busy drafting one.
U ajma b’daqshekk x’fiha? Compromising one’s integrity: there’s no such concept in Maltese?
‘Even though it violates the ethics guidelines’
What did Joseph Muscat say about our ethics guidelines book? ‘Qisu bibbja.’ Or something to that effect. You can’t expect our MPs to read it, now can you?
From what you state happens in Malta and in Canada, then it’s true in this case that tutto il mondo e’ paese.
[Daphne – Hardly so, David. Read the post again: the point isn’t that people in public positions put their girlfriends on the payroll but how it’s dealt with.]
David. When it comes to politicians at the trough, you may be right to say “tutto il mondo e paese.” But it stops there, because In Canada such actions are sanctioned, while in Malta they seem to have become public policy. That’s the difference,
Ramona Frendo used to work from Dr. Mallia’s Office in Msida. Was she the one who introduced Manuel to Joseph?