Tariffs: Time of discussion without results is over - GWU

Galea. L

Dec 18th 2009, 23:12

Michael Seychell
Those bills were recalled because Labour had found out that those responsible at EneMalta had not worked the bills correctly but were charging the people for their inefficiencies and incompetence. Since then the PN has been in government for 11 years and did absolutely nothing to remedy the inefficiencies and incompetence. Now not only do they want to charge exorbitant tariffs to make good for their inefficiency and incompetence by increasing the Tariffs when the price of oil has been going down, but they are also making an extension that uses HFO instead of diesel or gas which is going to cause more pollution apart from the controversy of changing the law to allow it because the company which won the tender could not even be considered had the law on emissions remained the same! How about the commission from our taxes Seychell? How about having to make changes costing many more millions in a few years time?

Pierre Fiorentino

Dec 18th 2009, 20:18

Michael Seychell ghamel pjacir lil min ghandu ftit memorja u tirrepetix nofs fatti ghax dik aghar minn gidba habib!. DAWK IL-KONTIJIET LI QED ISSEMMI TA ZMIEN ALFRED SANT KIENU GEW IRTIRATI MILL-EWWEL MINN GVERN LABURISTA! ha naraw dawn il-kontijiet hux ser isir l-istess. u nassigurak li dawn il-kontijiet huma hafna ghola minn dawk ta zmien il labour kieku dahlu fis-sehh.

Qed issemmi t-taxxa tad-dranagg? tajba din! mela li se jaghmel il-gvern issa x'inhi mhux taxxa fuq id-drenagg ukoll? min jaf kemm maqdartu l-labour dak iz-zmien eh! eh bilhaqq se jaghti sussidju....u hallina ara vera hawn malta skond min jaghmilom l-affarijiet

E. Vassallo

Dec 18th 2009, 19:54

Come on GWU, now it is the time to show your mettle. Remember that as soon as the MLP is returned to power.....

Michael Seychell

Dec 18th 2009, 19:39

Had Toni Zarb not been Secretary of GWU in 1997, one would have expected all the Unions to support him, but Tony DID NOTHING when Dr.Sant EXPLOITED Energy/Water/Drainage tariffs,except from COMMISSIONING A STUDY BY AN ex-Sant's MINISTER

Adding insult to injury, Tony's Union did not support UHM when Sant's Fat Cats took UHM to court, but on the contrary HE let HIS papers to demonstrate their pleasures on the Court decision to fine UHM One MILLON LIRI, or 2.33 MILLION EURO.

This time round Tony is ignoring the FACT that apart from supporting arrond 30 thousand families, the Government will also be giving a rebate of 10 million Euro to over 90% of consumers, and is trying to destabilise the Goverment with the support of 10 left leaning Unions under the leadership of Bencini - whilst Salvinu Spiter and Alfred Buhagiar looks down surprised from Heaven on Bencini's effort to the destruction of the CMTU.

TONY's ONLY AIM is to topple the government to see MUSCAT'S's MLP TAKE POWER. The Voters know that JM has not committed his party To Reduce Energy Prices if elected, and TRUTH WILL PREVAIL ONCE MORE.

Happy Christmas TONY.

Michael Seychell
Tal-Pieta

Jeremy J Camilleri

Dec 18th 2009, 19:19

Henry Jacobs...I m sure you can respect J Farrugia enough to let him speak for himself. Ps.I do not work for the PL. Do you and JFarrugia work for the Pn?

I Abela

Dec 18th 2009, 19:19

Toni Zarb can single handedly bring the country to a standstill. And yet some people don't even know his name, they refer to him as ta' Issa Daqshekk. He has been saying enough is enough since the stone age. Well dear Toni, we are in the digital age now and many people are taking your comments with a pinch of salt. Kif jghid il Malti, Kelb jimbah imma ma jigdimx. Stop talking and do something. Or else don't do anything and stop talking. Whichever it is just stop talking.

John A. Azzopardi

Dec 18th 2009, 19:00

Ladies & Gentlemen ...please. Stop this childish bickering. I really love hearing and/or reading about Government SUBSIDISING this and that !! I would like to thank anybody in Government or in Parliament for that matter, who is putting his/her hands in his/her pockets and putting his/her own money where their mouth is. We, The Taxpayers, are handing our own money to the Government who, in turn, sounds his loud trumpet and has the cheek to use the word "subsidising". Management is all it takes - good management of our money and our affairs .

Joseeph E Briffa

Dec 18th 2009, 18:19

Incredible but true! Tony Zarb again fanning the flames hoping to put the government in bad light and doing his best to try and force a snap election in the hope that Labour comes to power. Then we won't have to pay our electricity bills as the GWU will foot the bill; there will be no inefficiencies at Enemalta as they will shed some of the thousands that were attached to it by Labour on the eve of the 1987 election. My goodness, this sharp increase in utility tariffs - in some cases as much as Eur0.5 a day - will definitely lead to starvation of the majority of the population, people will have to stop purchasing new cars and importing luxury cars, they will have to walk or cycle to work and there will be no more holidays abroad for half the population. People will start withdrawing their Eur5 billion savings in the banks to meet these exorbitant utility bills. Enough is enough! This is ridiculous my dear Tony. Why don't you get serious and suggest the installation of solar water heaters and photo voltaic cells on the roofstops of factories, hotels, schools, convents, apartments, houses and offices?.

Henry Jacobs

Dec 18th 2009, 18:08

Mr J Farrugia unlike the rest does not work for the PL

M Saliba

Dec 18th 2009, 18:07

Electricity is not being subsidized anymore and it should be so I totally agree. But then lower the taxes, increase the wages, get better efficiency and lower the cost of living. Where is the money recouped from the subsidies removal going? Is it being wasted? Is the new power station extension going to be a failure like the previous one?

Good management please.....

Henry Jacobs

Dec 18th 2009, 18:03

issa daqshekk

Jeremy J Camilleri

Dec 18th 2009, 17:59

J Farrugia...Who exactly are you to tell any union what to do in the name of the people?

Your posts are always the same no matter what you're writing about...its the people this, and the people that....
Are you a Prime Minister in waiting? a Prime Minister in disguise? or perhaps...Lo and Behold...Malta's lost royalty?

Lewis Balzan

Dec 18th 2009, 17:53

@J. Farrugia
Why is it that whenever you post here your reasoning is always different from everybody else's? Could it be the genes? Or the blinkers?

David Pisani

Dec 18th 2009, 17:53

@ J Farrugia

Government continues penalizing basic energy consumption.Instead of increasing the surcharge on consumption indiscriminately, the government should ensure that wasteful practices, and not basic consumption, is penalized. The basic rate of energy must remain affordable for all those on low and middle wage income.

martin saliba

Dec 18th 2009, 17:20

Ton. Taf kemm ijlek tighid " issa daqsek ". Ghamel xi haga !!!!!!

L. Attard Bezzina

Dec 18th 2009, 16:56

"Things" aren't free we pay taxes and national insurance and expect that whoever is in government administers efficiently. Why should we have to pay again for social benefits? Yes I and the vast majority do pretend and expect that we get these things for "free". Why should we have to fork out more money for the corporations inefficiency? If Mr / Ms Farrugia likes paying higher rates, that's his problem> Most of us don't and we want lump it this time. This isn't about politics but about efficiency. Lets hope all the social partners unite this time round.

l lanzon

Dec 18th 2009, 16:52

your' e right enogh is enough cause you seem like a well off prson and we have to struggle to pay the bills

D Zammit

Dec 18th 2009, 16:51

@ J Farrugia

Is it ok to hear the same things from other unions?

Mario Skinder

Dec 18th 2009, 16:50

Tony. You are on the right track. Please look out for the people that do not belong to the unions. Next question. To have the most efficient bus service. Hire legal or illegal immigrants to be the bus drivers. They need jobs. They will provide best service Malta ever had. Have a trial of my suggestion. Than draft them to the union.
Thank you

John Debattista

Dec 18th 2009, 16:48

@ J Farrugia. No enough is Enough from your goverment. Let the people wake up and stand for their rights........................... Keep it up G.W.U and all the other Unions which Support you.

D Grima

Dec 18th 2009, 16:43

To the barricades!.

J Farrugia

Dec 18th 2009, 16:38

Tony sit still and let us enjoy our Christmas festivities. You have to face the truth. Gone is the time when everything comes free. Nothing is free not even your highly paid job. So stop you trumpeting and sabre rattling and put your ears to the ground and hear the people telling you: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH from your UNION.