National Archives beg private business for Eur25,000 while government spends Eur6 million on carnival float warehouses
The National Archives of Malta is looking for Eur25,000 to help arrest the deterioration of the records of Malta’s first maritime tribunal, the Consolato del Mare di Malta, which hold riches of historical detail.
A group of businessmen (declaration of interest: one of them is my cousin) has teamed up with the Chamber of Commerce to help raise this money and possibly more to start the conservation exercise.
It’s just so ironic that the appeal was published two days after the government announced that it plans to spend six million euros on a specially constructed depot where carnival fanatics can build their floats.
The National Archives (a government institution) has to go to private business for Eur25,000 to start the conservation of historically valuable documents while the government spends many hundreds of thousands of euros every year on pointless sinecures for its courtiers and court jesters. Absolutely shameful – and shameless.
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How much is Luciano Busuttil’s driver paid?
Eur25,000 could be used for personal driver salary.
It would cost much more to find a garage to store these records.
When have you ever known Labour to gravitate towards scholarship? Their choice of who to rub shoulders with, not their wannabe antics, says volumes.
What you talk about in this post is EXACTLY what one would expect of Labour.
Let us not forget that ‘the first lady’ (although she is not) Michelle Muscat has taken it upon herself to ask a person to represent the British people at the annual meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government in 2015.
Are these the antics of a government who knows what’s what?
One thinks that Labour was never informed that public funds are not there for them to make personal buddies and garner votes.
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Nottingham-born-writer-teaches-Lady-Malta-local/story-21152880-detail/story.html#ixzz3R9YbVGfY
The real scandal being that warehouses in Kordin are readily available, but that these result ‘too far away’.
Or maybe we can’t allow the fact how industrial areas are turning ghost towns, to become public knowledge.
Now that the proposal is our money, let’s have the small print; who gets to rent the space, under what conditions, which services and who pays running costs and bills.
Obviously commercially sensitive information so there.
Bastards.
Allocating funds for carnival flotsam and jetsam is more important that the preservation of historical documents in the National Archives. The priorities of semi-literate goons are different.
Why am I still being surprised at what this sham government is doing to further downgrade Malta.
You shouldn’t be surprised. Joseph is still only concerned with garnering votes. If he can do it by using taxpayers’ money so much the better.
Are people protesting?
Kenneth is.
Maybe instead they’d donate those pages which they can’t conserve to the float builders to use as papier-mâché.
It would be a win-win situation: make disappear the volumes which can’t be restored and help the carnival industry.
It would almost be similar to the exercise MEPA is planning to undertake by granting permits for illegal development in the Outside Development Zones, under the pretext that the case load is too large to handle, and in so doing, all illegalities will disappear presto.
Idea tajba. Wara kollox bil-Malti nghidu karta pesta u dawn id-dokumenti mahmugin pesti.
Gvern tal-qamel … fejn jidħol l-interess nazzjonali (mhux dak personali).
Wasn’t the protection of the National Archives the excuse for paying out some Eur4.2 million to bail out and pay off the Cafe Premier shareholders instead of just evicting them as they could have done?
[Daphne – National Library, but yes, you’re right.]