Cyrus Engerer’s Tooth Fairy has flown back to Malta and is now in charge of the Labour Party

Is there trouble in paradise, or will Cyrus Engerer and the Tooth Fairy with whom he has been romantically involved these last few years now be conducting their relationship by long-distance commute?

The Tooth Fairy has flown back to Malta from Brussels in a cloud of Tinkerbell dust that he probably hopes will mask him from the Commissioner of Police, who may otherwise pounce, skin him and fry him in olive oil for supper with his mates.

But Engerer himself has, as far as we can ascertain, stayed behind in Brussels doing his faux-Sherpa-with-no-security-pass stuff as the Prime Minister’s special envoy on an annual package of €80,000+

LABOUR APPOINTS NEW CEO, the headline in the newspapers said yesterday, on a story buried on the inside pages. Because now we’re all so distracted by Moses Delia and his plans to take the Nationalist Party out of the desert after hearing his calling from Yahweh in a burning bush that we’re not even bothering about what those crooks in the Labour Party are up to.

So Randolph Debattista, who was made chef de cabinet to Marlene Bonnici, Malta’s permanent representative in Brussels – that must have been hell for her – so that he could be sent to that city with his boyfriend as a double-package living off the fat of the land with jobs for which they are not qualified and which they obtained corruptly through massive cronyism, has now been made CEO of the Malta Labour Party.

Aleander Balzan, a waxen, craven creature with the communication skills of somebody who never left the village but is still dying to go back, is now the party’s communications director. He was head of news at the party’s television station, the reprehensible (Super) One TV.

Randolph Debattista replaces Gino Cauchi, the former (Super) One TV employee who was shifted straight into the CEO role – and who, in another major act of corrupt cronyism, has now been appointed CEO of the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation, a public company. Very fit for purpose indeed, with that amazing business and corporate background.

The ultimate pork sandwich: the prime minister with Cyrus Engerer and Randolph Debattista