Phyllis Muscat lunches with Prime Minister and Transport Authority chairman who gave her daughter a job in London

Phyllis Muscat – no need of an introduction – was at lunch at Ta’ Karolina in Xlendi yesterday (some kind of birthday celebration) with Transport Malta chairman James Piscopo, who has just given her daughter a job as maritime attaché based at the Malta High Commission in London. Phyllis Muscat is tipped to be Norman Hamilton’s replacement as High Commissioner when his term ends this summer, and has sewn this one up nicely. With the sort of Taghna Lkoll shamelessness we have now come to take for granted, her husband, Paul Muscat, is on the board of directors at Transport Malta too.

The Prime Minister was also at this birthday lunch, as was the government’s head of communications, Kurt Farrugia. It is not clear why Farrugia was there, as the purpose of the Prime Minister’s presence in Gozo was to be at the Labour Party’s – not the government’s – ‘Gozo regional congress’. Party deputy leadership candidate Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi was at this lunch too.

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James Piscopo, the former Labour Party CEO who was moved to the state payroll as Transport Malta chairman in March 2013

Michaela Muscat, whose mother Phyllis fixed a job for her as maritime attaché for Transport Malta at the Malta High Commission in London. Her father Paul Muscat is on the board at Transport Malta.