Here is the president of the Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers, at last Sunday’s Labour Party convention
This is a photograph, tweeted by the prime minister’s aide, Glenn Bedingfield, in which the president of the Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers (Kamra tal-Periti) is seated directly in front of the prime minister at the Labour Party’s annual general meeting last Sunday. That’s the meeting at which Ian Castaldi Paris gave his ‘Joseph is my daddy’ speech.
The chamber president’s name is Chris Mintoff, and his grandfather was Dom Mintoff’s brother. So don’t expect the architects’ chamber to come out fighting tough against the location of the market in the thick of the Renzo Piano project.
No wonder they’re cooperating by helping choose the design of the stall.
Some people don’t even seem to understand when their position is compromised and go out of their way to compromise it further.
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Chris Mintoff was a fixture on Miriam Dalli’s pre-election programme on One TV.
Blimey! ….what a dour, unsmiling bunch of people…
That’s what power does to you.
That’s being kind . They’re just plain ugly . My late father would have said ‘ ucuh ta’ gidmejmuni’.
This explains it all.
This shows exactly why the Chamber of Architects has publicly made a great fool of itself in the Monti debacle.
I did not have a clue about who this Chris Mintoff was.
Now, thanks to Daphne, I know.
Now, I can very well understand how all those very well-meaning members of the Chamber have been taken for a ride.
It is the lunga manus of the MLP that has entrapped them.
Architects and Civil Engineers reflect and act accordingly.
Ignore my advice to your detriment.
I could be a grandfather to most of you and for me this is deja vu.
You are being used and utilized.
Malta Ottimista.
Malta hanina…hobza u
What should be a source of worry is that professionals, graduates of our university, aid and abet this culture of nepotism and political bias by electing, as their professional representatives, persons who brazenly show their political bias.