Raymond Vella & Co Ltd has taken the bulk of government and state lighting work since March 2013

Raymond Vella & Co Ltd set up its lighting division around October 2012, a few months before the general election. What it calls ‘RVC Lighting’ is not a registered company but just a name. In fact, it won the tender for the exterior lighting of the Auberge de Castille under the name of Raymond Vella & Co Ltd and not ‘RVC Lighting’.

It was obviously set up in preparation for the change of government, and this is borne out by events. Since March 2013, Raymond Vella & Co Ltd/RVC Lighting have taken the bulk of government and state lighting work, and also that of events which are materially linked to the government or the state in one way or another – like last year’s Joseph Calleja concert and events for the Community Chest Fund.

I have more to tell you – but that will go into a separate post, not to complicate matters here.

Raymond Vella & Co Ltd were also involved in the stage lighting for the Labour Party’s campaign mass meetings. Photographs uploaded on Nigel Vella’s Facebook page – Nigel Vella is a director and shareholder of Raymond Vella & Co Ltd and specifically responsible for its lighting operation – and on the Facebook page for ‘RVC Lighting’ give some idea of the company’s involvement with and dependency on the Labour Party and Labour government.

So far they have uploaded no photographs of the disastrous and widely slated lighting at the Auberge de Castille – no doubt because even those who are not too embarrassed about using cronyism to get government work are upset when that work is received with shock and derision.