All in the family for Leo Brincat
Further to my previous post about Herr Flick the Environment Minister’s appointment of David Borg, who was MEP Joseph Muscat’s aide, to the chairmanship of WasteServ, there’s more.
David’s uncle is Herr Flick’s head of secretariat at the Environment Ministry, Louis Borg.
How cosy.
I wonder how that conversation went. Nine a.m. round the water-cooler at the Herr Flick Environment Control Room: a brief conversation about how to sell land reclamation to the suckers of Malta, and then –
“Ara Louis, x’tahseb jekk in-neputi tieghek naghmlu chairman tal-WasteServ?”
“Ideja tajba, Leo. Halli ncempillu issa, ta. Naghmillek espresso? Ha nghajjat il-Jane, taghmlu hi, ta, ghax dak xoghol in-nisa.”
Meanwhile, I have confirmed that David Borg’s father, Tony/Anthony Borg, who has been engaged in the prime minister’s secretariat (cosier and cosier) was private secretary to the notorious Labour Minister Lorry Sant in the Golden Years of Hell.
He had opened up a computer shop in Paola.
I suppose that might account for the other Lorry Sant connection on the WasteServ board: Helga Chetcuti/Pizzuto is Salvu Sant’s niece, Salvu being the late Lorry’s brother.
She’s a smart lass, but as a full-time employee of a state agency – she’s chief technical officer at the Malta Communications Authority, because under the Nationalist government Malta was really everyone’s – she can’t be given, or accept, an appointment to the board of another state corporation or agency.
The previous government did not permit this. Also, the time Ms Chetcuti dedicates to WasteServ will be during Malta Communications Authority working hours, when she is paid to work for the latter organisation and not the former. Yet she will also be remunerated, as a board director, to work for WasteServe at a time when she is paid to be working for the MCA.
We are seeing a lot of these limbo dances.
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Isn’t Godwin Pulis a relative of Alan Pulis (advisor to the Minister)?
There’s more to this. Michelle Borg, the daughter of Louis Borg and therefore the niece of Tony Borg and the cousin of David Borg is an advisor to Herr Flick on environmental matters. Fascinating, isn’t it?
Is this Michelle borg the same one who works at the MEPA?
David Borg’s mother Rose hangs around Mrs Muscat
The Borg family are rabid Mintoffians, as the family of a Lorry Sant’s private secretary is expected to be.
So, at his age, Lorry Sant’s ex-personal secretary (Tony/Anthony Borg) now works at the OPM, and his wife Rose is seen buzzing around the Prime Minister’s wife, who is also employed at the OPM.
And their son David (yes, he had a computer shop in Fgura) is appointed chairman of WasteServe!
The Borgs lived in a spacious, one-storey corner house, built on a government-subsidised plot in the late 70s-80s, in a new area in Paola/Tarxien. During the past 25 years of PN government, their house was demolished to make way for a block of modern apartments.
These appointments, together with those preceding and following them, are a perfect example of Labour’s new way of doing politics. Indeed Malta belongs to all of them.
Due to all the iced buns being handed out we might soon have a spike in diabetes.
If these people have a contract that clearly states their tasks and duties and those are met then I can’t really see the problem.
It will all come out in the wash.
All in the family
I have Googled and seached the CVs of some of the new Wastesev board members. Most of them do not have the slightest connection to waste management, especially the Chairman of the Board.
The only person who has some legitimacy in the matter is Dr Peter Gatt, a geologist who had worked with the Waste Unit of the Environment DG at the European Commission (where waste legislation is drawn up) in Brussels and specialised in engineered landfill design in the USA (Cornell University- quite prestigious).
As for John Darmanin, he is connected to servicing oil companies not waste management. Perhaps he may have some connection to Peter Gatt because he is also very much into oil exploration.
I wonder what Dr Gatt and Mr Darmanin have to say about Joe Mizzi and his bid to be oil king of Malta (i.e., his ‘nitla u intellghu (iz-zejt)’ attitude).
John Darmanin is a chemist and an expert on crude oil washing and that sort of thing. So he does know something about waste management.
I do not think that crude oil washing falls within the remit of Wasteserv ltd. Such expertise might be useful for marine pollution unit.
And this post would not be complete without: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrA88gnHgG8&feature=youtu.be