Comments on: Somebody please teach Laburisti the difference between facts, lies and opinion about both

By: Ganni Borg

Ganni Borg — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:29:04 +0000

In reply to Persil. If I was his mum , I would have shot the stork who left him in the cabbage patch.

By: Persil

Persil — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:17:29 +0000

Nestor’s paternal grandfather was Nestu Laiviera, so he was named after him as many families do.

They name their first son after his grandfather so that the family name lives on. If I were his mum I would call him by another name.

By: David

David — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:07:32 +0000

What is the 2.5 million euro contract about? Who were the parties to this contract? To my knowledge, this contract has never been published. Shouldn’t all contracts were the government or a state agency is a party be published or be subject to public scrutiny?

[Daphne – All tender awards (not CONTRACTS) are published in The Government Gazette, David. As a lawyer, you should know that. These are not contracts; they are tenders. The parties are Evolve Ltd and the government of Malta. I think it’s time you grew up and learned how to assess information properly instead of taking Labour rubbish at face value because you support that party.]

By: Aunt Hetty

Aunt Hetty — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:39:04 +0000

In reply to Makjavel. Skond iz-zokk, il- fergha.

By: Dickens

Dickens — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:36:34 +0000

In reply to Carmel Ciantar. He was with DI-VE.com at one time as well.

By: john smith

john smith — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:32:00 +0000

I for one do not believe for a minute that you spend all this time running this Maltese version of the Sun of website for nothing. Heck it seems to me that even the indipendent has now been contaminated by the same populist agenda that reminds me of that worse-than-bin-liner British paper famous for exposing tits and mud for news.

So with that bit off my chest, why dont we wait for the verdict and wish you and your jolly band of brothers good luck for the time being?

but of course then judges are all asses when you loose right?

[Daphne – That’s right, honey, I do it for nothing. Other people spend hours every week playing bridge or trying to knock a little ball into a hole at the Marsa Club and I do this.

P.S. your spelling is awful and reveals your origins and the source of that crippling chip you’ve got. Pointless using expressions like ‘jolly band of brothers’ when you then make the classic Maltese downmarket error of using ‘loose’ for ‘lose’ (because you pronounce the latter like the former). And you’re not going to impress anybody with ‘populist agenda’ when you think the newspaper is called ‘the indipendent’ (again, because of your pronunciation difficulties).

Cowards can never believe I would do this for free – because they wouldn’t. In any case, you need more than guts and stamina – you need to be literate. All of that rules you out, then – you couldn’t even if you wanted to.

And still you keep coming back for more.]

By: chico

chico — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:14:47 +0000

I ask, “Are there any reliable newspapers on this island?” As in not considering Agatha Barbara’s 60 year old missive to some navy chap as a ground-breaking revelation on par with the announcement of the outbreak of war?

[Daphne – The most disgraceful thing about that newspaper story, aside from the fact that it is an unseemly invasion of post-mortem privacy for a matter of little consequence (three letters to a sailor), is that the newspaper failed to put it in the context of the fact that Miss Barbara was a lesbian and the letters were those of a friend.]

By: curious

curious — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:03:59 +0000

Joe Mizzi counts the buses and twists the facts to suit his purpose.

“The sposkesperson insisted that the Minister had travelled to Spain to carry out the necessary technical verifications on fleet management, telematics, control room and coaches. “The Minister did not discuss the contract. He just went there to make sure that those who appied actually had the means necessary to qualify for the EOI. If a company tells us it has, say, a hundred buses, we have to make sure that they really do have a hundred buses.”

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-08-07/news/no-breach-of-public-transport-eoi-conditions-ministry-6124339201/

By: K

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:53:53 +0000

Is this the same man?

https://www.facebook.com/victor.laiviera?fref=ts

Massive picture there of all the protagonists of the golden age.

[Daphne – That’s him. I’d forgotten how old he is – old enough to be my father, but for some reason he has a son the same age as mine.]

By: timothy

timothy — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:28:03 +0000

Well, I guess he had to make up . . . naming your son Nestor doesn’t really seem to be a set-up for success now does it?

[Daphne – Nestor Laiviera is named after his antecedent, the Malta Labour Party stalwart and General Workers Union boss Nestu Laiviera: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090111/local/nestu-laiviera-remembered.240360 ]