Government appointments

John Cardona

Jul 12th 2009, 09:55

@ E.Torpiano and J. Martinelli
Your contributions to the press will be much more creditable if both of you remove your blinkers and start calling a spade a spade.

Anthony Magri

Jul 11th 2009, 19:11

Mr Torpiano: the question is appointed not confirmed. Anyhow, Mr Louis Grech was removed at the first opportunity and replaced by a P.N. controversial person.
Read properly the question.

Victor Laiviera

Jul 11th 2009, 17:28

@ Mr J Martinelli.

Perhaps you would care to answer the question I asked Mr Torpiano?

What happened to the promise made by the PN, in black and white before the elections, that all appointments would only be made after a public call for applications?

laurence schembri

Jul 11th 2009, 17:04

Edward Torpiano ought to know, that if it wasn`t for the astute management of Louis Grech, Air Malta would have been history.

p.zammit

Jul 11th 2009, 15:39

Louis Grech was given a golden handshake by the PN to make him leave as Chairman of Air Malta.

Jeremy J Camilleri

Jul 11th 2009, 15:16

Dear MR. Magro....J Martinelli has got you all confused...He was referring to apointments in Canada, and not in Malta.

Jimmy Magro

Jul 11th 2009, 14:24

@ J (whatever this means) Martinelli
Your blog remarks are based on your perceptions. Kindly provide empirical research, figures and tables to prove your claims.

Otherwise your contribution is only a "hanqa ta' hmar fid-desert"

I am happy but not because of what you wrote.

J Martinelli

Jul 11th 2009, 13:53

@ Edward Torpiano, Jimmy Magro et al

Getting into a debate regarding government appointments is a waste of time and can only be aimed at alienating the public, a weapon very much in constant use especially by the Labour Party.

This is not a numbers game. It often boils down to meritocracy or networking.

If one had to give it a political slant, it would be easy argued that coincidentally, under a Nationalist administration, the most qualified to occupy a department headship happened to be Nationalists while under Labour governments, qualifications were not a priority and appointed Laburisti to fill empty positions made vacant by the forced departure of Nationalist Heads of Departments. One has to remember that from 60 years on, Labour administrations were always sandwiched between Nationalist ones.

Happy now?

Jimmy Magro

Jul 11th 2009, 13:14

Malta population: approximate - 440,000
Labour margin: approximate - 50%
Labour population: 220,000
PN Appointed Labour Supporters: 1
Percentage: 0.000454545 percent

a real world record - easy fitting the Guiness Book of World Records

Victor Laiviera

Jul 11th 2009, 11:43

Quoting one or even a few) high-profile exceptions will not prove anything.

The fact is that, out of the thousands of appointees to government commissions, boards, committees, etc, not even 0.5% break the "nationalist only" criterion.

Since Mr Toriano seem to like answering challenges, I challenge him to tell us what happened to the promise made by the PN, in black and white before the elections, that all appointments would only be made after a public call for applications.

Jeremy J Camilleri

Jul 11th 2009, 10:04

The fact that the same gentleman is mentioned again and again just goes to show that this is a very rare occurence.