President’s wage bill up by half a million a year: here are some of the new jobs
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November 28, 2014 at 11:44am
These are some intra-government circulars:
– OPR No 2/2014 – Post of Senior Operative (GROUP IV) Plasterer and Painter in the Office of the President
– OPR No 3/2014 – Post of Senior Operative (GROUP IV) Tiling and Paving Works in the Office of the President
– OPR No.4/2014 – Post of Operative (Group III) Construction Works in the Office of the President
– OPR No.5/2014 – Post of Operative (Group III) Maintenance Works in the Office of the President
– OPR No.6/2014 – Post of Operative (Group III) Metal Works in the Office of the President
– OPR No.7/2014 – Post of General Hand (Group II) in the Office of the President
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Is Luciano Busuttil also a “General Hand”?
I don’t know where to post this, but it’s excellent and deserves max exposure.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-28/blogs-opinions/The-Hunger-Games-6736126494#.VHhO-L6BYyM.facebook
[Daphne – Let’s hear it for Old Dorotheans. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that some of the toughest chicks in Maltese public life were locked up in a freezing Mdina convent in no-nonsense Dickensian conditions, though a couple of them fell on the wrong side of the fence, like Marlene Mizzi of the Labour Party and Arlette Baldacchino of Imperium Europa.]
It deserves to be uploaded in its own right.
Quite!
Why didn’t she name the cabinet dork who went over to eye ball them?
Oy… I’m an Old Dorothean too, so less of the sexist remarks. Sliema though, so I’m not a tough chick.
[Daphne – It’s the convent bit wot did it, not Sliema where the toughest thing was singing Cat Stevens and Bob Dylan hits in the guise of hymns in between running around and yelling. Your cousin Simon D was my contemporary there, incidentally.]
Ann Fenech is an Old Dorothean too.
Il-Listrina, x’buzz dak!
She could have given all that to charity and stopped the Strina charade.
That’s 1000 weeks of 500 Euros worth of honoraria increase per week.
No fuss made now?
We HAVE been taken for a ride.
Only if you voted Labour, in which case serves you bloody well right.
http://www.tvm.com.mt/news/jonqos-bi-e3-miljuni-l-izbilanc-tal-gvern/
F’daqqa wahda l-istatistika tal-NSO
That’s a lot of money for just 6 people.
[Daphne – Those are just six of them.]
So Her Excellency intends to thoroughly vandalise the palaces.
Restoration directorate, brace yourselves.
Charlies running around with buckets of white cement and pots of gloss magnolia.
Dwejjaq.
Kollha bid digree ta’ restawr nahseb.
They are already at it. Wannabe restorers have been playing Bob the Builder on scaffolding in St Anthony Street, which has been cordoned off, blocking the through-road between Attard and Lija.
They work half-days, but the road is closed round the clock and there’s even a policeman in attendance.
She works from a very crowded office. When will it be finished?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-28/local-news/Wine-industry-up-in-arms-against-tax-on-wine-introduced-without-consultation-6736126509
Someone has to pay.
Why does the president need a permanent plasterer and tiler? Surely she can do her own make-up?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-28/local-news/Same-parliamentary-question-different-answers-on-ministry-customer-care-officers-6736126495
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAvz2DRgdgk
Stomp stomp stomp….
Now even La Barokka is on board, after the President appreciated her vocal chords on Xarabank.
Mhux ta’ b’xejn Il-Barokka kienet euphoric meta saret president Marie Louise Coleiro, għax kienet taf li ser tispiċċa on board magħha.
Coleiro Preca said that she doesn’t like ceremonies, but she sure as hell likes having a lot of servants, bidilli and retainers.
Who’s that?
I bet my head that most of them are ex-Maintenace Section from St. Vincent de Paule Hospital, since Justine of the plastic helicopter will be dismantling ALL maintenance and construction sections there.
Call me a snob, but let’s hope they get to lie around and do absolutely nothing.
Iharbtu mill-ahjar li jistghu il-palazz kien jonqos.
Where’s the baroque NGO and that foremost watercolorist when you need them?
Or a couple of switchers I know, purveyors of everything Caravaggio and Preti and who get lost driving themselves up to Zurrieq.
The powder on their nose, that’s what.
It seems the President does not wish to be dependent on a government department to carry out minor works at San Anton Palace.
If that is the case, her office should say so publicly and explain why the President requested additional funds from government.
I suspect she will be sorely disappointed. There will be people who will feel entitled to these posts and inevitably they will be the worst people for the job. More jobs ‘ghal dawk tal-qalba’ and, yet again, more money down the drain.
And then, Madame President urges people to donate money during L-istrina so that she can help poor families.
Oh the irony of it all.
Tthere are resident handymen, tailors, restorers, gardeners etc who did a wonderful job in restoring most parts of the 3 palaces.
Many who had been working at the palaces for decades were made to resign and now Taghna Lkollers will be employed.
And consider them as public service employees. Yes, after three years of contract they will become government employees with an indefinite contract. And there are more to come who are being employed without a call.
Labour keeps buying votes even when in government. And at what cost.
Not a cost to itself, which is why it’s chucking money all over the shop.
Two Sundays ago she participated at the Caritas trail plastered in makeup and surrounded by at least six people.
She simply perpetuates the myth that the role of the President is that of raising funds for charity and reminds me of those women who organize village bazaars to raise funds for the parish priest
I hope all this grumbling doesn’t fall on deaf ears come next elections – cos nowadays people are having memory loss more frequently !
What’s this, Malta Drydocks II?
How many times a year do the president’s residences require tiling, plastering and the rest? Who are we trying to fool here?
If I am not mistaken she has also beefed up the number of gardeners.
If they’re beefy gardeners it will give us something to look at other than ducks and terrapins.
Makes a change from the Macina backdrop.
Deficit up by 283 million euros.
Personal emoluments and contributions to government entities increased by 40+ million euros.
That’s not chump change.
So these workers are special? I thought that workers with the same skill are in the same salary scale, such as a nurse in St. Vincent de Paule Hospital has the same pay as a nurse at Mater Dei Hospital.
So from now on many would opt for a transfer to San Anton Palace to have a rise in pay or you have to be from the Taghna Lkoll family?
Metal works at the Office of the President ? In these days, the age of carbon steel, aluminium, carbon fibre ? Hope Evarist will not be taken up by this and suggest to us that MLP is having a made to measure chastity belt ? What do you think Varist ?