Elderly father and multi-millionaire Manuel Mallia buys his young children’s clothes off a Catania market stall
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February 15, 2015 at 10:31am
A reader has sent me this photograph which he took last week at the Catania market. Codruta Christian, mother of Manuel Mallia’s children, rummages about on a stall selling clothes for small children, armed with a suitcase on wheels in which to put them, while the former Police Minister, who declared millions in assets when obliged to do so in parliament (including half a million in hard cash at home), stands by.
IL-QAMEL TAGHNA LKOLL.
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Tghid ghalhekk niezel ir-retail trade Malta?
Mank iqallahom lira lil tal-hwienet, Leli tal-Gzira.
Were they there along with Sheehan, the Micallefs and bella compagnia?
[Daphne – That lot went up the day before yesterday. This photograph was taken some days before that.]
Kemm hi bil-ghaqal il-mara. Tixtri bl-irhas biex tiffranka.
How can such people get off Maslow’s bottom rung and imagine enjoying anything of beauty, space and grandeur?
There you have the real reason why he belongs to a party where it is quite acceptable to garner votes by promising to ruin places and spaces.
One can have money yet still be attracted and at home only with the cheap.
U tal-monti jixxenqu biex ibieghu, u Maneul Mallia, li joqghod il-belt Valletta, imur is-suq ta’ Catania biex jiffranka.
This goes to show that sticking a market in the face of people entering Valletta will do nothing to improve sales.
Every Ebenezer Scrooge knows that.
Was he so thrifty with the taxpayers’ money when he was a Minister? Why not buy from the Maltese hawkers – you know, support your locals.
Ghax ma marx idawwar ftit l-ekonomija Maltija li bhalissa zgur tinsab stagnata – dehlin f’Marzu u l-hwienet jokorbu u bis-sale.
Dear Manuel, what you see and need from the markets of Catania, you may easily obtain from your Valletta Ordnance Street market. The only difference there could be is that in Catania you get them 50 cents cheaper.
Imbasta bl-islogan: ‘Malta nippremjaw il-bzulija’, u imbaghad Manweli mar jixtri mis-suq ta’ Catania.
Iva hallilhom ewro gid lill-Maltin hutek li ivvutawlek.
Li ma tisthix.
Qed nispicca inhenn ghal min ivvutalkom.
Ma tantx ser ikollu boghod biex imur jixtri mill-Monti tal-Belt.
I cannot but admire a man (and a woman) who takes care of the pennies. In this case we know that the pounds have already taken care of themselves
Ghalih ser jaghmluh il-monti f`Ordnance Street ghax vicin id-dar u jkun jista jibghat is-seftura.
Miskin.
Issa johodhom mieghu.
How cheap and stingy can anyone get?
He takes care of the pennies while his mattress takes care of the pounds.
Mhux kulhadd jiffranka? Ghalfejn tixtri mil-Lidl meta l-flus li tonfqu jmorru pajjiz iehor?
Ghax ma tixtrux minn supermarket Malti?
Il-Lidl ghamel turnover multi-miljunarju, imma l-pajjiz x’ha?
Ihaddem lill-haddiema Maltin u jhallas bil-karawett.
Ms Cristian reminds me of my Albanian friend who married a rich Italian husband and still she buys her jeans and tops from the market.
Her parents are both doctors but their income is very low. That is the way she was brought up, more or less in misery.
She cannot change her habits even though her financial situation has changed.
Do the Maltese still visit Catania for shopping? I thought it was something which belonged to the past.
I didn’t know that the Maltese still shop at the market in Catania.
I don’t know about you, but I’m anxious to hear who those other bank accounts belong to.
Perhaps some other former government ministers involved in selling off parts of Malta’s assets? A few names comes to mind.
And is there going to be an investigation on how these exorbitant amounts of money were made/earned?
I’ve been told by some that people in politics dedicate their lives to the nation and even lose money and destroy their professional career in order to go into politics. Yeah right, and I’m the queen of Sheba.
[Daphne – That level of cynicism is quite unnecessary. Simply put, if nobody chose a career in politics, we would have no government and no democracy. It is pointless speculating about whose the bank accounts are. For a start, this applies only to a single bank – HSBC – and there are very many others in Switzerland. Secondly, casting aspersions on everyone is wrong. Thirdly, you have no right to know who owns the bank accounts unless they are public appointees, government officials or elected members of government/politicians. What all others own, and whether or not they have paid tax on it, is absolutely nobody else’s business, though exceptions are sometimes made for crime, and that is enshrined in our law, too. Does anybody pry into your financial affairs? Well, then.]