Comments on: “Deo came with me because this is not a government of ministers”

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:25:08 +0000

Need I remind everyone that “Doktorr Deo” became a household name on Xarabank?

The fount of all evil doesn’t even begin to describe it.

By: wigi

wigi — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 00:09:20 +0000

Isn’t Dr Deo the Muscats’ family doctor?

Was not all the Muscat family in China too?

By: Xewkamaltija

Xewkamaltija — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:30:49 +0000

How can an authority function when it has a complement of 24 workers, 7 of which have the rank of director in the civil service, 4 middle management and 6 clerks, 2 messengers and 4 field officers?

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:20:38 +0000

In reply to Xewkamaltija. What are their names?

By: Xewkamaltija

Xewkamaltija — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:36:16 +0000

Dear Daphne,

Dr Debattista, was appointed chairman of the Occupational Health and Safety Authority about a year ago. For some years now, it has been in need of more field officers, but he has thought it more important to appoint a personal assistant, on the authority’s payroll, who has never shown his face there, and also a messenger/clerk whose working day amounts to just two hours on the premises. The rest of the day, he just vanishes and cannot be found.

Both of them were handpicked with no interviews or advertised vacancies.

By: Josette

Josette — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:35:32 +0000

In reply to Neil. I don't think so. I think that there is more trouble internally than we know and using the Franco Debono comparison would have been an implicit admission that there is "internal negativity" within PL.

By: John

John — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:06:25 +0000

Maybe he is a nice guy

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:02:36 +0000

In reply to anthony. You overestimate the man who said last year that nothing's happening in Kiev. He said the same thing this week about Libya.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:54:31 +0000

Didn’t somebody here mention the possible involvement of Deo Debattista in some institute of traditional Chinese medicine at the general hospital, or maybe in the country generally?

The subject of traditional Chinese medicine was mentioned in the “ground-breaking” MOU signed in Tienanmen Square in the presence of Saviour ‘Peking Duck’ Balzan and other ‘selected’ Maltese media.

By: it-Tezi ta' Mario

it-Tezi ta' Mario — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:38:29 +0000

Carmelo Abela was in Muscat’s delegation last year. I’m told he accompanied the prime minister to an international meeting in Dalian while Kurt Farrugia was shut out.