Comments on: Driver in GM21 takes Stefan Buontempo’s son to football and waits for him

By: Grace

Grace — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:33:59 +0000

In reply to Mim. It is not the driver who picks the children up, it's the Minister himself! He's never busy at 2:20..

By: High Tea

High Tea — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:46:50 +0000

In reply to Sonya. The car sometimes carries Buontempo there himself. He stands among the other parents, mostly mothers, affecting nonchalance but evidently expecting to be noticed. He is noticed, for the wrong reasons.

By: Xewka

Xewka — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:15:26 +0000

In reply to Mim. Jesmond Mugliett was infamous for doing this when he was a minister, with his driver parking outside the Chiswick House School gates and then walking Mugliett's small daughter down the 20-metre ramp to the school door and carrying her bag, while Mugliett himself remained seated in the car.

By: Harry Worth

Harry Worth — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:50:06 +0000

In reply to bob-a-job. I doubt whether they have any of those.

By: Observer S

Observer S — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:25:35 +0000

Has anyone calculated how much an official car + driver costs the tax-payer per hour?

By: Mellieha

Mellieha — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:30:37 +0000

Lil Stefan halluh. Taqbdux mieghu miskin, li ma tmorrux TQAJMUH.

By: Mim

Mim — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 07:51:04 +0000

Is it a case of the driver being too lazy to change the plates or is it the exploitation of the ‘do you know who I am’ and ‘get out of my way because I have power’ syndrome?

Who is the gatekeeper as regards how perks paid for out of tax payers money are used? Can someone calculate what each hour of a driver with a car, aproximate fuel and wear and tear costs? Is it left to each individual minister, parliamentary secretary, CEO’s good sense and conscience not to abuse perks or are there rules/laws written somewhere?

These would have been good questions in the days when Malta was still a democracy, before the days when everyone was happy in North Korea.

By: grace

grace — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 03:22:00 +0000

The same car passes by Chiswick House School for the other child first. Busy dal ministru!

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:27:35 +0000

Important People, Baxxter. Here they are again.

What a dated sense of things.

Late arrivals to civilisation.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:12:17 +0000

GM21 is a regular outside the St. Martin’s College gates in Swatar – and it’s NEVER official business, unless one considers collecting a parliamentary secretary’s sons from school as being “official business”.