Comments on: Luciano Busuttil puts his friend on the state payroll as his full-time driver https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:59:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: 22 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3027981 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:59:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3027981 Dak ix-xuffier li ghandu Luciano huwa canvasser tieghu mill-Belt.

Plus hekk jahdem bhala parker hdejn ix-Xaghra tal-Furjana u meta jkun xoghol ma’ Luciano jitfaw lit-tifel tieghu bhala parker u miniex cert jekk it-tifel ghandu licenzja ta’ parker.

]]> By: Xejn Sew https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3027740 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:06:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3027740 In reply to P Bonnici.

Exactly.

Why do so many Maltese women go through so much effort to look like tarts? That’s not sexy, it’s slutty, which is another thing altogether.

I suppose lots of Maltese men think she looks hot, which speaks volumes about their absent sense of aesthetics.

]]> By: P Bonnici https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3027069 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:47:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3027069 In reply to vanni.

What a pose!

]]> By: etil https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3026860 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 15:09:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3026860 Is it my impression that this government and its supporters and hangers-on are trying to inflate their earnings to make the most of their time in power?

]]> By: Mila https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3026751 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 13:02:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3026751 I am always amazed how goal posts are constantly changing in this country and no one bats an eyelid.

Dr Busuttil said when questioned that Mr Borg was recruited on a position of trust basis …

Francis Borg was engaged without a public call and did not come from the public service.

Has everyone forgotten that in the midst of the Sheehan/Mallia saga, we had been told that the driver of the then Minister of the Interior was not personally chosen by him?

Is a driver a position of trust or is it not? Is it a position of trust for a chairman’s driver but not for a minister’s driver perhaps?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150208/local/full-time-driver-for-part-time-chairman.555180

]]> By: David Thake https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3026734 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:41:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3026734 I called Luciano during today’s program.

Here is the recording.

https://soundcloud.com/david-thake/david-thake-speaks-to-luciano-busittil-about-his-new-driver

]]> By: Foggy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3026657 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:45:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3026657 Is the Malta Sports Council paying for the driver despite the car allowance which is part of his salary or is he paying the driver out of his allowance?

Given that he has the job the latter might be acceptable. However if the former is the case the Council is simply robbing funds which should be going to the promotion of sport to pay another grasping Labour politician.

[Daphne – It is VERY CLEAR in The Sunday Times report that the Malta Sports Council is paying for the chauffeur. That is the whole point of the report.]

]]> By: M https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3026652 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:35:52 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3026652 Min jaf xi jfittex ‘hither and thither’ bhalissa.

]]> By: Mila https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3026633 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:11:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3026633 From an article in Times of Malta called ‘Labour MP adds €4,600 car allowance to list of political pay packets’:

The car allowance, in his role as chairman of the sports council, pushes his total earnings to €49,482 a year from political positions. This is more than €4,000 above a minster’s pay.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140521/local/labour-mp-adds-4600-car-allowance-to-list-of-political-pay-packets.519871

]]> By: Marija harbila l-Maws https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/luciano-busuttil-puts-his-friend-on-the-state-payroll-as-his-full-time-driver/#comment-3026621 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 10:56:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58692#comment-3026621 In reply to Marija harbila l-Maws.

Exactly my point. Which makes it even more obscene.

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