Comments on: And you thought the Health Minister is normal and ‘one of us’

By: Spa

Spa — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:14:00 +0000

U ghamluh konsulent lil dan il-Ministru.

By: Spa

Spa — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:13:00 +0000

Hemm ghadha l-kilba.

By: U Le!

U Le! — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 17:44:00 +0000

1984 was the year my dad was locked out of his place of work because he did not want to renounce to his trade union rights.

By: observer

observer — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:25:00 +0000

In reply to speedbird.

I’m afraid you are wrong, my dear speedbird. The post of permanent secretary, although provided for in the Constitution, was first introduced by the Nationalist government of 1992.

Those appointed to the post were very senior civil servants – career officers, not people subsumed into the civil service from positions of trust – each with decades of efficient and capable service to their credit.

I happened to know all of them – some for decades – and can vouch for the integrity and competence of each.

Frederick Fearne was not one of them. The permanent secretary at the Education Ministry at that time was Alfred Fiorini Lowell. Mr Fearne was appointed later on.

By: speedbird

speedbird — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 21:41:00 +0000

You got your facts wrong. Frederick Fearne WAS permanent secretary BEFORE the 1987 election. Ask Dr Ugo Mifsud Bonnici of the obstacles made to him when he was appointed Education Minister in 1987. I lived through those years.

By: c calafato

c calafato — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 21:30:00 +0000

He was already director when Ugo Mifsud Bonnici was Minister of Education.

By: Pandora

Pandora — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 20:30:00 +0000

I was in primary school in the 1980s and still remember the fear and tension of those years as well as the “quality” of life of those times. Lately, I came across these episodes of Evidenza where I learnt more horrible details:

What shocks me most is that a good number of people mentioned in these cases are in government (or work for the government) today. The younger generations have no idea but those who remember these times have no excuse.

http://youtu.be/P9oDGrwOnR0

By: J Sammut

J Sammut — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:46:00 +0000

Saħħa li l-“h” ma jaqtgħaliex rasha, nistenna minn ministru tal-gvern ikun jaf jispelli “żgħażagħ”. Miskina Malta.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 16:47:00 +0000

Fearne yearns for a place where no association can exist outside a federation governing its influence.

Where everyone is included and diversity cannot be other than qualified by biology and the irrational superlative. Socialists are the ultimate bureacrats, everything neatly filed and compartmentalised.

Intellectual diversity, the real one, that dangerous notion that dare determine where the federation stops, is not for Chris Fearne. No space is possible outside the state as any fragment of human cannot be socialist.

They have the EU in their grasp, they hegemonise, they ostracise and purge of identity. They must be exposed. Time to shift the balance away from this radical left posing as some liberal force.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 16:44:00 +0000

In 1984 Iwas in a coma in hospital, pumped with antcoagulants after a good and proper beating by your lot, Mr Health Minister. I believe in karma. May you and your scumballs have a long and miserable life.