Here’s another one with a milestone schedule and a promise of resignation
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November 11, 2014 at 11:42am
Maybe in 20 months’ time he’ll be joining his mates Konrad and Joseph in telling us why it didn’t happen. Any lapdancing clubs in this “high-end development”, we’d be interested to know?
And who’s going to be living in all these ‘high-end’ flats, anyway? Kazakhs, Azeris and Ukrainians with Maltese passports? And we’re going to have a fresh rash of five-star hotels there as well as the ones on the high-end Costa Chetcuti on the other side.
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Funny, isn’t it?
One is tying his future to the White Rocks, and his boss has tied his future to a white elephant.
He just couldn’t stop interrupting Tonio Fenech yesterday.
Saviour insisted Fenech continue notwithstanding the minister’s tactics, basically drowning the argument.
Ramona Frendo had a collection of slumpy paperbacks and a list of the most stupid observations which she herself disclaimed ghax mhix esperta.
Reporter; programm li jridha ta’ Ballaro’, hlief li min jipprezentah ma jwassalx siegha bil-wieqfa.
Chris Cardona is no economics expert, but he’s a minister. Does fellow lawyer Ramona Frendo approve? Would she define this as a meritocratic appointment?
Yesterday I watched Reporter for a couple of minutes (I couldn’t take more spluttering than that) and I noticed that it is being filmed at Where’s Everybody’s studio in Qormi owned by, amongst others, WE Director, PBS Lawyer, Chris Cardona’s law firm and business partner, Mark Vassallo.
Lighting by Nexos, obviously.
Until a few weeks ago Reporter was filmed at the brand new PBS studios in its Creativity Hub.
Looks to me that there’s some ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ going on.
Who will be the first to investigate this evident conflict of interest. WE’s Xarabank or Salvu’s Malta Today?
Now that’s news.
There are only so many couple of minute periods in a life-span Alex. They’re precious minutes. Do not discard them lightly. Utilise them to your advantage or for your enjoyment. Do I like I did. Stop watching crap.
Chris Cardona qal li ghandu hafna ‘investuri’ ghal progetti. Bis-serjeta’.
Dan il-gvern anke s-sinjifikat ta’ ‘hafna’ biddel. Joe Mizzi ukoll qalilna li kien hemm hafna applikanti ghas-servizz tat-trasport pubbliku.
Chris Cardona doesn’t realise that only a minute percentage of all expressions of interest in investment ever materialises and of that only a smaller amount survives the first five years of operation. Repeating the success of Playmobil, ST and others is extremely remote.
X’hemm komuni bejn Chris Cardona, Michael Farrugia, Louis Grech, Konrad Mizzi, Owen Bonnici, Robert Musumeci, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando?
They are all men with hypercharged scrotums.
All Joey’s puppets on a string?
Whenever they unzip their flies, their brains tumble out.
They all suffer from ” how do I zip up my pants and keep my ding-a-ling at heel ” amnesia . They are also paragons of moral virtues and role models to their electorate .
They’ve all got girlfriend issues?
I think he’s quite safe on this one. Speculators and developers are two-a-penny, so the land should be grabbed up in no time.
Agreed. GRTU-Chairman-Hitter-Chetcuti will definitely be in the mix.
This should give an idea of who we’re dealing with.
Unused land is shabby he says, the mental strains of the term ‘wasteland’ remain.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141109/local/Land-for-three-hotels-is-shabby-developer.543189
It looks as though the Maltese government has lost all credibility with serious investors. The corrupt character, the way government tenders are being ‘adjudicated’, the Arriva story, the LNG tanker-power station debacle/lie/more-lies/and-even-more-lies, the dealings with China’s communist cronies, the hugging of convicted criminals, the Dalligate story, the gang-of-four-brothers in the oil scandal story, and so much more.
Do they think people are not taking note of all this, that it is restricted to people in Malta who are interested in Maltese politics?
No serious foreign investor would risk investing his millions here in Malta. Serious investors love making money in an honest manner in a reputable country run by reputable professionals and credible politicians.
Malta has lost all credibility now and it’s only corrupt investors who would plough their money into this place.
On the subject of promises, time lapses and accountability, isn’t it about time that a list is started with significant milestones which would also serve as a reminder of the passing months and years the public are kept wating for information or a resolution?
The list would include enquiry reports such as those which Manuel Mallia is still studying and has not yet made public, one of them being the dropped prosecution of the person who had attacked four policemen.
Another item on the list would Sai Mizzi’s contract and would serve to remind us each month that that information is still hidden from the public.
Another item would be the investigation from 2011 of Silvio Scerri and each month would mark another month with the public not knowing if he is a poor victim of a frame up or a sore looser/dangerous criminal.
The sheer number things left hanging has made it very convenient when the public’s attention seimply moves on to the next issue with no one seeming to keep tabs on the cumulative effect of all the rot.
And Joe Mizzi who knows where oil can be found.
Fil-baswa.
Has Chris Cardona already met with any of these ‘potential investors’? I have the oddest feeling that he might have done.
Paul Abela of the GRTU had vehemently opposed any project proposal under the PN as he claimed the right to develop the White Rocks area back in 1999 through Costa San Andrea.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130126/local/Bidder-not-surprised-that-White-Rocks-project-failed.454863
He always wanted the right of first refusal on this project. Is he insisting on it now?
He was right opposite Cardona yesterday, next to Tonio Fenech, Saviour chose not to ask the question.
Meantime, Chetcuti takes the South.
http://grtu.net/data/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1207
Watch the stretch from Wied Fulija to Lapsi, that will be the big one. Muscat promised an ‘incredible amount’ of private public partnerships this budget.
When Cardona came out with the resignation promise even Savvy Balzan could not stop himself from laughing and then immediately checked himself and returned to self preservation mode. It was a moment where reality broke through all the cotton fluff that has become our daily intake.
If I remember correctly, Minister Joe Mizzi also said he would resign if the PL did not find oil in Malta in the first year of government.
Am I right or did I imagine this?
Does bottled cooking on Lidl shelves count?
Yes correct ! So that makes it the PM, Konrad Mizzi, Joe Mizzi, Chris Cardona….any more?!
Manuel Mallia I think.
Sometimes I wonder what these developers think they are doing. Who are they developing for exactly? Gen Y is only just hitting 30, and their wages and savings are not going to be enough for a high end flat.
And who on earth can afford such flats anyway? If there really was the market for such homes, why on earth do the Laburisti go on about how no one can afford to eat meat.
And what of the supporters? How do they feel seeing politicians building house and flats, taking up more and more space, to build accommodation they will never be able to afford. Are they so simple that they think simply walking around such buildings will make them feel rich?
What nonsense! Malta needs affordable housing, not luxury flats for the rich who barely ever come to Malta anyway. Thank you Labour for marginalising the citizens of Malta but not providing them with affordable housing.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141111/local/no-further-government-architects-assessment-of-property-prices.543618
You were saying Edward? The intention here is to stoke speculation based on lies and ‘self certification’.
Everyone’s game, estate agents won’t subscribe to a realistic property schedule outlining values per sq.m, speculators won’t have it, contractors will accept any payment as long as it’s below the radar and banks can’t face the prospect of an avalanche of bad debts.
From a government which subscribed to every article praising Malta’s property market on The Sunday Times, hoping prices would never stop rising, to one which promised to bail out an industry turning on itself.
Just watch tax evasion skyrocket. They can’t even get themselves to come up with methods and means to mend the scars, just virgin land or perfectly intact areas.
As for your observation, the thing they did was to push state housing rent rates up. Bring them in line with the MDA’s stock. Promises must be kept.
It will come down.
Like dogs, our ministers are marking their territory. Chris Cardona is marking Bahar ic-Caghaq.
The hysterical Astrid Vella and her sidekick Claire Bonello have fallen silent. Not so much fun taking to the streets with megaphones and placards under Labour.
I hate watching the programme. Saviour seems to know it all. He puts a statement, then a question, and talks and talks.
I wonder how those invited to take part in the programme just do not stand up and leave. They are practically there just for their presence and to be used. Thank you very much, Saviour.