Comments on: The Manuel Mallia office it send very good letter for to say you not get job

By: Makjavel

Makjavel — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:38:02 +0000

In reply to Spock. In the Labour Cabinet around a table in Kastilja.

By: Artemis

Artemis — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:38:16 +0000

I hate to disabuse everyone of the idea that English people speak better English than anyone else just because they are English.

I can assure you that a lot of English people cannot speak or spell their language correctly. It makes me wonder what they were doing during English lessons.

Heaven forbid if any of them had to sit a citizenship test. I’m sure they’d be put on the next boat to the back of beyond.

However, there are people in Malta who can speak and write excellent English (like Daphne). The above letter only demonstrates the quality of employee that government offices are willing (or obliged?) to accept. So why should we be surprised at that?

By: Alchemist

Alchemist — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:01:16 +0000

Holy Mother of God!

By: Wilson

Wilson — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:52:09 +0000

If Clause 5.1 is about qualifications. Mr. Kevin Borg definitely does not have 5.1 with regards to writing letters/responses in English. Does it mean, he also loses the job?

By: Cikku flieles

Cikku flieles — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:37:53 +0000

In reply to vanni. @ Vanni. I fully agree. I have had to do the same with friends from Denmark and Spain. The level of English of some of the 'host' families is much lower than that of the students. It is almost impossible to hear Maltese persons speak English without their hrowing in a couple of words or phrases in Maltese in the same sentence.

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:13:02 +0000

I am very unaware that lessons in Chinese have started, let alone the official practice of the language.

By: Spock

Spock — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:08:42 +0000

In reply to Nathalie. In the Labour skip

By: ciccio

ciccio — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:27:38 +0000

It seems that the Department of Correctional Services cannot even correct its own mistakes.

By: your most obedient servant

your most obedient servant — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:23:21 +0000

This assistant director does not even know how to write a letter. One closes a letter with the words “Yours faithfully” not “best regards” which is acceptable in an email but not in a formal letter.

Civil service standards, even those of senior officials, have plummeted.

This has become a country where the utterly mediocre are placed to judge those who are more knowledgeable than them.

The tragedy is that the ignorant do not know how ignorant they are and they consider themselves smart. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool. This is not something that began under the present administration — it flourished under the PN government too.

By: observer

observer — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:33:25 +0000

In reply to Nathalie. In the Labour skip, of course.