ITS executive director goes out on gardening leave

Newsbook has the latest on Henry Mifsud, the hopelessly-unfit-for-purpose executive director of the Institute of Tourism Studies, who Edward Zammit Lewis appointed to the post when he succeeded Karmenu Vella as tourism minister last year.

Apparently Mifsud was involved in a massive argument yesterday at the Ministry of Tourism (we don’t get to know who with) and immediately went out on ‘long sick leave’.

Unless he collapsed there and then and a doctor called to the Ministry of Tourism made an on-the-spot diagnosis, using the equipment in his medical bag, of something serious and long-term that would prevent him going to work (for example, psycho-social problems like John Dalli’s), this can mean only one thing.

Henry Mifsud has been put on gardening leave.