Will somebody be so kind as to ring Nicola Abela Garrett and ask her who’s the f**king w**ker now?
Nicola Abela Garrett: who’s looking like a f**king w**kner now?
Transport Minister Joe Mizzi – who went from making coffee and photocopies in a commercial office to running the country’s transport network – has just had it wrested out of him that the government will have to use public money to the tune of Eur23 million to subsidise the new bus operator’s service.
The Eur10 million that Arriva used to receive is “not enough”, he said.
Ah, now we know why he managed to find somebody to run the service when no reasonable operator would touch it, given what happened: that wasn’t a begging-bowl he and James Piscopo took with them on Ryanair to Madrid. It was a treasure-chest packed with Eur23 million worth of ‘persuasion’.
The only f**king w**kers I see in this story of tragic stupidity and extremely expensive political vandalism are the people who whipped up so much discord against the previous operator. Perhaps The Times, which was among them to the point where one of its reporters, Matthew Bonanno (since fired) actually planned the ‘f**king w**ker’ stunt with Nicola Abela Garrett, might like to ring that woman at whatever location she is right now, freeloading off a Labour government scholarship.
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I see you’ve updated your blog’s look. I like it. However will you keep the ‘older’ and ‘newer’ tabs, and will the posts be kept in chronological order on the home page? Or is the site still under construction?
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[Daphne – A day of teething problems until all is sorted, and yes, of course they will be in chronological order.]
I like the new presentation and the page numbers at the bottom. If I may make one suggestion, can you please make the commentary in the same type style as the readers’ comments or else increase it by another point.
I think she got some EU scholarship abroad,London, if I’m not mistaken.
One word for them all: ZIBEL.
Fcuking Wakner.
Held hostage on a bus somewhere. Last seen trying to reattach a steering wheel to its column.
Do the maths:
– the increase alone in the subsidy worked out by Joe Mizzi while in Madrid privately meeting with the new operator is an extra 31 Euros for everyman woman and child in Malta.
– the higher “affordable” price of tickets based on a 20 cent increase multiplied by 250 working days adds another 50 Euros to your daily working commuter’s burden.
Joe Mizzi is simply the best we could have hoped for.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141105/local/labour-candidate-is-against-l-istrina-cause-of-presidents-help-to-migrants.542708
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141105/local/valletta-street-art-by-celebrated-french-artist-is-painted-over.542785
Bunch of eunuchs is what they are. Castrated in spirit.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141104/blogs/institutionalism-1-art-0.542634
True Ramona, how about working this arid place into something else? There’s hundreds of us out there.
Looking at the pictures well, I would tend to believe that the post box was actually removed. Maybe some director wanted this particular post-box to adorn his office.
Or hopefully, the director thought it a good idea to take these to head office.
Yeah right.
Austin Gatt il-qammiel:
http://normanvella.blogspot.com/2014/11/austin-gatt-il-qammiel.html?m=1
Ezatt.
Mur ghid lil tat-Times jaghmlu paragun, b’tal-linja tarhom gejjin.
Mizzi is even worse than Manwel Mallia when it comes to cock ups.
It is emerging (from the zipper) that the king of cock ups is Owen Bonnici.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141105/local/busy-lija-roundabout-to-be-closed-for-roadworks.542755
Bullshit, it’s his dear Labour government which disrupted projects planned and cleared for EU funding for more than eighteen months.
And if his idea of project management is a free for all, contractors reduced to staging works in the most ridiculous way possible, see Msida, the man’s nuts.
Msida’s a nightmare for any project manager, but the way it turned out, scarifying absolutely everywhere, and not in stages, a hotch potch of tarmac, levels nowhere matched, denote prices cut to the bare minimum.
It’s clear the contractor was forced to provide the bare minimum in equipment and definitely without any allowance for re-mobilisation staged works would have required.
Joe MIzzi, coming to a roundabout near you.
If memory serves me right I think that recently he said that the subsidy will be less than that given to Arriva. It was another of those statements one takes with a pinch of salt especially if you are living in the real world.
Cannot imaging how an investor can make profit without a higher subsidy or increasing the ticket prices over and above increasing the number of routes.
Se nesprimi ruhi bil-Malti biex ninftiehem zgur: min hu l-aktar Malti… Austin Gatt li kien irnexxielu jballa’ kanna lill-Arriva jew Mizzi li ghamel minn kollox biex qalaghhielhom u wahhalha f’s*** Malta?
http://juventudgijon.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/ofertas-empleo-alsa-para-malta/
In the meantime, ALSA (Automóviles Luarca, S.A.) started offering various Malta-based employment opportunities through the placement agency of the University of Oviedo.
To put the above into context, Autobuses Urbanos de León S.A (i.e. Malta’s new bus operator) is a subsidiary of ALSA.
ALSA are looking to hire 2 industrial engineers to supervise the logistics and maintenance section of the daughter company to be set up / set up in Malta. They are also looking to hire 2 graduates in Industrial Relations and HR to support the functions of HR management.
Unlike Arriva’s subsidiary, the new bus operator is recruiting through a Spanish state agency and not through ETC. Will the same process be extended to less technical positions? Bus drivers, perhaps?
Hilarious. This one deserves a post.
Hafna konferenzi stampa li mhux veru.
Hiring foreign bus drivers would be the silver lining in all this. Fingers crossed there..
‘Manuel Delia, il-persuna li mexxa r-riforma fit-trasport pubbliku appella biex in-nies ma jibbazaw ir-reazzjonijiet taghhom ghas-servizz tal-Arriva fuq l-impressjonijiet ghaliex dan ma jaghmilx gid.’ – One News – Sep 23, 2011
Kindly replace the words ‘Manuel Delia’ with the words ‘Joe Mizzi’, increase subsidies by Eur13 million annually and introduce higher fares.
Has anyone bothered contacting Arriva to check whether they would have stayed on under these new conditions.
If Ms Garrett qualified for the scholarship on her own steam, why not? Otherwise she would make a fool of herself. As to our dear minister of transport I hope that our transport system will start on a good footing as from next January. I think that a year is enough. We have been suffering and waiting in earnest for the change.