But the Prime Minister’s friend Phyllis Muscat was put on public service salary scale 1

Soldiers who were on duty round the clock during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting have been paid just an extra €110 for their efforts and have written to the Prime Minister in protest.

This casting of pennies in their direction must seem particularly offensive to them given that the Prime Minister put his close family friend Phyllis Muscat on public service salary scale 1 for the duration of her appointment as head of the CHOGM Organising Committee.