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.

Hiring foreign bus drivers would be the silver lining in all this. Fingers crossed there..

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.

Hilarious. This one deserves a post.

Hafna konferenzi stampa li mhux veru.

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?

It is emerging (from the zipper) that the king of cock ups is Owen Bonnici.

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.

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.