Utility tariffs: Unions demand resignation of regulator

G. Mangion

Feb 1st 2009, 11:13

@ Jesmond Sant

Perhaps you are one of those few consumers (if they exist) who had a reduction in the W & E bill with the present tariffs??? ( your Qoute )

They Sure Exist !!! is - Soltu It -Tajjeb Tejdlu Hazin !
You Never Change !

Ivan Delia

Feb 1st 2009, 08:46

J Busuttil ..its better that you thank the 11 unions are fighting for our rights...to get the right bills for us to pay.
gonzi pn stop this saga...shame of you.... is this what you call FLIMKIEN KOLLOX POSSIBLI ??
YOU SHOULD RESIGN....... WITH 1.500 VOTES MAGGORANZA... YOU CANNOT DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.

J. Abela

Feb 1st 2009, 02:38

Issue is taking so long. Govt playing ping pong games with Unions and making a fool all the citizens just to buy time. Only just to buy more time as March is round the corner (as to PN's plan). Then the W&E tariffs may be reduced..Reduced with respect to the recent rates and so we're back square 1 - i.e. 95% surcharge - 195%?. The rates should be considering the 95% surcharge tariffs.

apgech

Feb 1st 2009, 00:47

I have a strong feeling that this administration is treating us like idiots. It had been shown by what Lawrence Gonzi, Austin Gatt, and the the MRA guys.

This admin is becoming very dangerous and I see lots of back stabbing coming our way.

P.Schembri

Jan 31st 2009, 23:03

@J.Busuttil. What's wrong with having Prof. Edward Scicluna as consultant, and contesting for MEP? Up till now, nobody has contradicted his figures and statistics. Not even the government. Mudslinging?

Alfred Mizzi

Jan 31st 2009, 21:56

In every meeting held, whether, political, social or whatever, minutes are taken. Can we have the minutes of this meeting pl?

P. Buttigieg

Jan 31st 2009, 20:11

@ Jimmy Magro.
“Here we take it easy by being democratic and moderates” … so, who’s stopping you from protesting. You can protest (in the streets and in the squares if you like) as long as you don’t come foul of the law. You can make your voice heard, unlike in some past time which I am certain, you remember, times when the authorities did not look so gently on protests or protestors and when members of the elite used to intervene to stop protests or protestors by any foul means.

J Busuttil

Jan 31st 2009, 19:48

@ Jimmy Magro - Everyone can hold demonstrations today without fear of being attacked by THUGS like in the days of the LABOUR REGIME 1971-1987. To the other MLP apoligetics . How can one fancy the GWU when on it 's newspaper it only support one political party? On the tariffs-The Authority cannot have said that the revision is backdated because by LAW it cannot do this. It is only permisible to do future revisions. That is why I do not believe the BACKTRACKING unions.

c.camilleri

Jan 31st 2009, 19:33

@ Jimmy Magro. Oh very funny coming from an ex official of the labour party who did not allow any kind of dissent not even within their own party.

mario borg

Jan 31st 2009, 19:25

What is the meaning of "resignation", not part of English vocab here in Malta.

Ivan Gech Mintoff

Jan 31st 2009, 19:21

@ Jimmy Magro

>If I am not mistaken when we see the news from Italy, UK, France, Germany, Iceland, >Lithuania, Estonia, etc we see people on the streets fighting for their rights and making hell >with the authorities.
>
>Here we take it easy by being democratic and moderates.
>
>I do not know when protests have become undemocratic or why the maltese continue to be >afraid of going into the streets and making their concerns heard with all possible means.
>
>Are strikes still legal in Malta


SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH, Jimmy!!!!

Lower you voice, lest you waken SOMEBODY up....!!!

;)

I M Dingli

Jan 31st 2009, 18:47

@ J Busuttil

First of all 11 unions were present and not GWU (for whom you have such a grudge).

Secondly, you mentioned letters sent by the government…. Letters like the ones sent to hunters, taxi drivers, mini bus drivers, hearses companies, etc which finally the government didn’t honour?

I believe MUT was also present so I guess it is not a case of all unions not understanding the words uttered by the MRA since the persons making part of MUT should be well cultured.

Please explain.

M.Buhagiar

Jan 31st 2009, 18:30

J.Busuttil

Are you living in a dream or what??

We`ve been taken for a ride for all this time and you and others of your like persist in imagining scenarios in which you keep on apaologizing for this incompetent govt .

Jimmy Magro

Jan 31st 2009, 18:28

If I am not mistaken when we see the news from Italy, UK, France, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, Estonia, etc we see people on the streets fighting for their rights and making hell with the authorities.

Here we take it easy by being democratic and moderates.

I do not know when protests have become undemocratic or why the maltese continue to be afraid of going into the streets and making their concerns heard with all possible means.

Are strikes still legal in Malta?

Jesmond Sant

Jan 31st 2009, 18:23

@ J Busuttil

Perhaps you are one of those few consumers (if they exist) who had a reduction in the W & E bill with the present tariffs??? or perhaps you are such a fanatic that anything GONZIPN/UHM do you support them!! With people like you I wonder whether we should consider having GONZIPN/UHM in government for ever!

lgalea

Jan 31st 2009, 18:13

J Busuttil
You got it wrong busuttil
It is the regulator who backtracked not the unions.
So much so that the unions representatives are going to make a declaration under oath in the courts next week that their version is the truth.
So much for the independence of the regulator.
MRA should resign en bloc for trying to deceive the people.

b.vella

Jan 31st 2009, 18:10

Where is the Governmant in all this? We deserve a direction as we were promised before last election..... By GonziPn ......shame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Helena Psaila

Jan 31st 2009, 17:44

I think 11 unions are much more believable, thankyou.

What silly game is this? Does the authority have no honour?

m.cassar

Jan 31st 2009, 17:30

Why aren't these meetings recorded?That way no one can deny what had been said.
This scenario is nothing short of a farce.

J Busuttil

Jan 31st 2009, 17:11

These so called unions have made it again. First in November they meet the PM twice and when they left the meeting they said it was a positive meeting then when the PM sent them a letter of what they have agreed,they backtracked. Now they went for two meetings with the regulator and because he said that there will be a revision they backtracked again. What is the reason of all this? How responsible are these unions? Now I truly believe the UHM who said that the GWU proposed to Govt to buy oil at November prices. And last but not least who is this that these unions have a Labour Candidate for MEP as their consultant?

J.Borg

Jan 31st 2009, 17:02

What a farce......how long is GONZIPN going to tolerate these things......
Why can't we settle this round a table once and for all with everyone concerned.....
we are making ourselves the laughing stock in EU.....

V Fenech

Jan 31st 2009, 16:57

MRA is being the backyard of Castille. The Government needs to stop pretending that it has nothing to do with this complete disaster! U-turns are hatched everyday and serious issues are turned upside down so that nobody would understand how we are forced to pay what we do not consume.

Meanwhile the Government close its eyes in front of the uncertainty caused by itself and pretends that Malta is immune to the worldwide recession. Instead of getting the bull by the horns and focus on the possible effects by the global recession, Dr Gonzi seems to enjoy watching both sides of the unions and MRA pursuing a hilarous debate about who said that and did not.

No wonder eyeryone is thinking that the Government has recently lost the real definition of consultation!