UPDATE: It was neither a dinghy nor a yacht. It was a 27-foot offshore ‘rib’ (RHIB) with a cabin. And they used it to get to lunch in Scoglitti, Sicily. Debono’s host was the owner of Medasia.
You know, it’s a shame neither Assistant Police Commissioner Pierre Calleja nor Law Commissioner Franco Debono understands the value of being straight with a journalist, whoever that journalist happens to be and even if she doesn’t vote the way they do (which is what this is all about).
After all, if I ring them for their side of the story, it’s because I want their side of the story. Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother ringing at all.
Anyway, within 10 minutes of my uploading the story, another source rang to ask me a couple of details, then said ‘Give me another 10 minutes.”
He rang back to say that the vessel in question is a 27-foot offshore ‘rib’ (RHIB – rigid hull inflatable boat) – let’s give the landbound Law Commissioner the benefit of the doubt, and say that he called it a dinghy because it’s shaped roughly like one and he doesn’t have the right lexicon.
This offshore ‘rib’ belongs to the man who owns that startlingly profitable joint down on the shabby ‘Black Gold’ stretch of the Gzira front, Medasia, which is frequented by people like Franco Debono and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando.
Two or three of the siblings I mentioned in my original post, who I did not want to mention by name because there are many of them, were on their own ‘ribs’ travelling with the ‘rib/s’ carrying the Law Commissioner, the assistant Police Commissioner and, reportedly (this is fresh information), Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando.
The ‘ribs’ left Malta for Scoglitti in Sicily. The party had lunch there and returned the same day.
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Hopefully next time they might try out the lavish restaurants of Benghazi. They make great pizzas there guys.
Were they searched on their way out and in? It seems to be the practice now.
Correct – kien hemm Musumeci u Zammit Lewis ukoll?
One lesson to be learnt – it’s impossible to keep a secret in Malta. We’re simply to small. And, prosit Daphne, it might be difficult to keep secrets in Malta but you have a knack for unearthing them and for bringing the various bits together.
I really can’t understand Franco Debono and, to be honest, I’d start to worry if I understood him.
But he has been in the public eye for quite some time now and he still thinks that the press should only report the antics he wants it too. He also appears to think that his behaviour shouldn’t be affected by the important constitutional position he got as a reward for his antics under the previous administration.
He should be allowed to do what he wants and people shouldn’tinterfere. All he’s doing is making himself look ridiculous and, given that people won’t distinguish between Franco and the Law Commissioner, making the office of Law Commissioner look ridiculous.
I am no Sherlock, but am I the only one making the connection between this “trip” and the following article? http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130722/local/Pavement-pinchers-facing-Mepa-action.478992
Was Musumeci invited?
No need, I am sure a message can be easily delivered
There were around 5 vessels in all, 2 of them rhibs and a powerboat 38ft and there were a lot of people from a well known families with them as well.
The planning authority website lists enforcement orders against the Sliema Hotel, Tex Mex restaurant and Medasia
Sweet, a test run to Sicily.
GPS, double engined, full communications, range, the works.
Just to give an idea.
http://cdn.blogosfere.it/styleandfashion/images/091006_AB_Powershore_04.jpg
You don’t get a foot pump, just speed and a low signature.
beat me to it…
Wow…isn’t Franco the big stuff now?
There are some things, the most important things of course, that money can’t buy: dignity, honour, style, intelligence (not gained from rote-learning at the University of Malta).
Well, Franco hasn’t made it onto a Canados yet.
And, in his case it would seem, quim.
Qeghdin sew? Dawn jaqsmu ghal Scoglitti biex jieklu huta u jixorbu xarba waqt li ahna nahdmu u nippunchjaw.
Last Friday Jason Micallef was also in Scoglitti having lunch there with some friends.
I wonder if he was in the same party?
The restaurant is called Sakaleo, located in Piazza Cavour, five minutes from the dock.
Jason Micallef’s a regular at the Gzira seafront as well.
No surprise.
Wow, I missed all this. I was at Scoglitti, (obviously to eat at Sakaleo), on Thursday for lunch. Had I known all these celebrities were there I’d have driven 2.5 hrs back from Taormina, just for that scene.
I wonder what the discussion over lunch was about?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130722/local/Pavement-pinchers-facing-Mepa-action.478992
Neil, nahseb fuq il- vjolenza u l- frame ups ta l- 80s
An assistant police commissioner investigating in the murder of drug dealers, a criminal lawyer who is also law commissioner and head of constitutional reform, the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, all get into a boat to have lunch in Sicily. It sounds like a bad joke.
Were there also a couple of MPs, and a minister and Parliamentary secretary or two? Was Robert Musumeci-sieheb-Jeffrey in the party? Frano must be in heaven now that he’s been welcomed into the Evil Click.
Tghid Franco ghadu jhossu li hu Nazzjonalist? Kien qal li ser jibqa’ Nazzjonalist imma sorsi qrib Hal Ghaxaq jghidu li kemm ommu u zijietu kollha daru u vvutaw Labour. S’issa ghad ghandu l-pulizija ghassa wara biebu.
[Daphne – ‘Nationalist’ and ‘Labour’ are not states of being. They are what one votes.]
His mother went BACK to voting Labour you mean, and so did his aunts if they are from his mother’s side of the family,
The most his aunts on his father’s side would have done was not vote – his father’s side are diehard Nationalist supporters who grumble a lot but I doubt they bit the bullet and voted Labour.
Sicily – their spiritual home.
Did they go there to avoid prying eyes?
Mhux hekk..dak is-SACS dinghy jiswa aktar min €200,000.
Viva s-socializmu.
Mela Manuel ghandu biex jixtri wiehed, u cash ukoll, u darb’ohra jmur magghom.
Why didn’t they wait to ask the AFM minister to lend them this:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130725/local/afm.479427
So they went to lunch.
I had thought they might have been doing a re-enactment of boat people braving the open sea in little dinghies. Just to know what it feels like to be an “illegal immigrant”.
Will Joseph be pushing them back to Sicily?