This is the sort of person the Labour government believes fit to be a director of a state corporation
Maltese law does not set any requirements on the standing and commercial integrity of directors except for directors of publicly-listed companies.
But surely the government should maintain those standards for its own companies, which are public companies in the real sense of the word?
Labour thinks a fit-for-purpose director for a state corporation (Public Broadcasting Services Ltd) is somebody who bankrupted his business, failed to pay creditors to the tune – reportedly – of millions, and is now having his personal property sold by court order at the request of just one of his own company’s multifarious creditors.
But the most important thing for Labour is that he spent the last few years up to the March election ranting against the Nationalist Party, the Nationalist government and PM Lawrence Gonzi on the Labour Party’s TV station, while trying to strong-arm that same government and PM into buying his defunct hospital building. Tal-misthija.
In the Government Gazette:
By decree given by the CIVIL COURT, FIRST HALL on 15th May, 2013, on the application of Charles Degiorgio Limited (C340), Thursday, 19th September, 2013, at half past ten (10:30 a.m.), has been fixed for the SALE BY AUCTION, to be held on THE FIRST FLOOR OF THESE LAW COURTS, REPUBLIC STREET, VALLETTA of the following property.
Apartment number one (1) ‘Seaview’, Veċċa Lane, St. Paul’s Bay valued at euro one hundred and fifty thousand (€150,000).
and
Garage number nineteen (19), known as garage ‘A’, in Edgar Ferro Street, Pietà, subject to a perpetual ground rent of €1.20 per annum, valued at sixty five thousand (€65,000).
The said tenement is the property of Portelli Frank (I.D. 514744M).
N.B. The said tenement will be sold as described in the acts of the file number 79/12.
Registry of the Superior Courts, this Friday, 16th August, 2013.
MARVIC FARRUGIA
For the Registrar, Civil Court and Tribunals
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2BFrank, tghid JDalliBa u Mrs. Gauci Borda gieli ezaminaw xi pazjent?
Dr Portelli is a prominent PN politician who contested the last MEP elections and was negotiating with the previous government recently to sell his private hospital despite the criticim of this deal from the then Labour opposition.
[Daphne – You are several years out of date, David. Frank Portelli fell out with the Nationalist Party when he failed to be elected to the European Parliament four years ago on the PN ticket (a ticket he should not have been on in the first place because of these very problems and other issues of personality). Rather than blaming himself, or the nasty electors who didn’t vote for him, he blamed the PN.
When party leader Gonzi assembled all the candidates, successful and not, to sit with him for a press conference when the results were announced, there was one noticeable absence: Frank Portelli, who was sulking dramatically. After that, he made it a point to cause as much trouble for the PN and Gonzi as he possibly could, to the point where, unable to take his bitching on Labour TV any longer, I told him exactly what I thought of him and his cheap, appalling behaviour and asked him to refrain from all contact with me for whatever purpose. I can’t stand scummy, disloyal behaviour. Give me a straightforward Laburist any day rather this kind of person.]
Ghadni kif smajt (u rajt) il-video clip.
Please, dan ir-ragel tefa’ iktar minn 100 idea x’jista’ jsir biex titjieb il-kura primarja u jirranga l-organizazzjoni tal-isptar Mater Dei (ma qalilniex jekk dawn l-idejat kienux hadmu fl-isptar St Philip’s!).
Il-punt tieghi hu li J Dalli BA (li ghandna nifhmu qatt m’ezamina pazjent) ghandu jiehu nota ta’ dawn il-100 idea u possibilment jinvolvi li (Dr) Frank Portelli biex isolvi l-problemi li qed tiffaccja M L Coleiro (jew Godfrey Farrugia?) li hi/hu responsabbli minn Mater Dei.
Thanks Daphne, that`s my philosophy too. Give me a hundred straightforward (irgiel ta` veru) Laburisti but not a piece of a turncoat or Judas.
He was never loyal to the party or to his patients. Labour deserve him.
I recall the one time that Frank Portelli was elected (the 1987 election, I believe). He stormed into St Luke’s Hospital posturing as the new minister of health.
But Fenech Adami appointed someone else and had the foresight not to give him a cabinet post. And that was when the seeds of disgruntlement were sowed, Frankie Tabone style.
I recall that too.
Frank Portelli was not even loyal to his employees. He discharged an employee claiming this person was incompetent, and was taken to the Industrial Tribunal, which had declared that the discharge of the employee was unjust and Frank Portelli had to pay financial compensation to this person.
Will this appointment solve his financial and other problems?
Actually, it’s not just directors of public listed entities who have to be fit for purpose and must be approved by their Regulator as such, but also directors and top management of what are commonly termed as public interest companies, i.e. banks, insurance companies and investment companies.
One would think that all government entities fell under the banner of public interest. One therefore questions how this individual could be on a government-appointed board, when he clearly would not have passed the Due Diligence process on account of these financial problems.
So much for doing things properly – the only thing Muscat is doing properly is bankrupting this country.
http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2013-08-24/news/pn-insists-home-affairs-chief-of-staff-must-go-2413330432/
I’m sorry to post out of contest, but I just wanted to reassure Mr. Silvio Scerri that although I did not know who he was 6 months ago, now I can recognise him anywhere.
Veru l-PN tilef l-elezzjjoni pero anke kemm helsu minn hmieg.