Who could have known what the future held

Published: March 12, 2017 at 9:45am

The Super One Nerd Collection as I remember them in the early days – I’d say the early 1990s. The only one who still looks exactly the same (and the only one who didn’t seem even back then to have crawled out of a village hall in the middle of nowhere) is Simone Cini, whose husband Dominic Azzopardi is today battling ED ZL, the tourism minister, on the fate of Air Malta.

Front row, first from left: Joseph Muscat, now Prime Minister

Back row, second and third from right: Claudette Baldacchino, now a person of trust at the Office of the Prime Minister, and Etienne St John, now a person of trust at the Foreign Ministry

Back row, third and fourth from left: Christian Cardona, now Minister for the Economy, Glenn Bedingfield, now a person of trust at the Office of the Prime Minister, and Simone Cini, doing her own thing