Hekk tahseb Hallelin li ghandhom guh kbir?

The Times Of Malta has the duty to ask the right questions for the sake of its faithful readers.

I read that paper and I’m not getting the answers or the information I want. I don’t even see an attempt to get the answers.

The newspaper may be independent, but are its journalists?

Jealous of whom, of what?

Why would anyone be jealous of a two-bit politician whose only idea of progress is to sell the Maltese identity for cash and to rub shoulders with dictators of Communist China whose regard for basic human rights is not even a blip on their radar?

Shiv Nair works outside the limelight. He’d have sent an intermediary. After Qatar, he must have learned his lesson.

Just a few examples will suffice – and they must include Tonio Fenech’s legendary clock for which he was vilified, hanged, drawn and quartered many times over.

Joseph Muscat and his wife accept a sponsorship by a clothing firm and the media silence is deafening.

Again Tonio Fenech accepts an invitation to fly to Spain in a private plane to watch a football match. And all hell breaks loose calling for his resignation because that is corruption.

Joseph Muscat accepts a free trip from Muammar Gaddafi on his private jet, and that’s fine – it’s taken as normal. Mrs Michelle Muscat accepts an invitation to fly to China, all expenses paid by the Chinese government and she takes the opportunity to give her little darlings a trip as well. And that is hailed as proving what a good family man Joseph Muscat is and how the Chinese respect his wife.

The third example must take the biscuit. John Dalli’s (drug-smuggling) brother – yes that one – gets a contract on some government project. And John Dalli suddenly becomes “HuBastjan”, corrupt, not fit to remain a minister or even a Member of Parliament.

The same John Dalli, having now changed sides to Labour, is a hero, is saved from prosecution and – this time without being backed by votes in an election – is made a consultant in the Health Ministry and promoted as a consultant to the Prime Minister and all is forgiven and forgotten.

The measuring and weighing equipment used by the MLP definitely needs scrapping to be replaced by more modern technology, definitely not “Made in China”.

U d-dejn nazzjonali dejjem jikber.

Daphne is correct. When one of my colleagues brought her fiancée to the USA with her the last time we went to a conference there, the whole delegation was annoyed.

Anyone bringing their partner on a work trip will be concentrating on the partner/having a good time and not the work.

The others are probably the wives and partners of the “important people” who were shown in the press.

I bet that Shiv Nair was also there.