Arraignments show abuse detection system is working - Ministry

Jeffrey Mallia

Feb 23rd, 20:15

The ministry is so incompetent that it didn't noticed the fraud after half a million Euro was stolen .....And what's the PL got to do with it, if I may ask ??

ALBERT FENECH

Feb 23rd, 19:20

" ... clearly showed that this government did not tolerate abuse." No, this Government does not tolerate abuse - only when it is perpetrated other than by Government itself. In the Government's case it is free to abuse democracy, the electorate, Parliament and ministerial responsibility. But then, these are minor issues according to the GonziPN.

ALBERT FENECH

Charles W. Sammut

Feb 23rd, 17:26

I have been saying for years that it was clear that considering the state of our roads, there must either be gross incompetence or rampant corruption.

It seems that there are both. Another feather in TM's cap.

Mr Henry A. Grima

Feb 23rd, 17:21

No wonder roads which had just been done months before are already subsiding and disintegrating!
I thought, or better, it was said from the authorities concerned, that roadworks were being monitored and tested for quality before payment to contractors; or is the scam web much wider?
It is the general opinion that in Malta we should have much better roads.
The million dollar question is: Why don't we?
Before we did not the means for the expense. Now we have the EU forking out millions for new roads.
How are they being spent? Whose responsibility is it to find out?
The soldier goes to war on the front with the corporal with him to see that their sergeant's orders, which were given him by the Lt, who in turn got his orders from the Unit CO, who got them from the General, are truly carried out.
Any breakdown in this system will result in losing the operation, the battle, or even worse, the war.
If is won the General gets the medal.
If it is lost the General gets the raspberry.

Joe Grech

Feb 23rd, 17:16

''the most that could be done by any administration was to ensure that there were systems to detect abuse and to ensure that justice was done.''
SORRY THAT IS NOT BEING DONE FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS ANYTHING BUT EFFICIENT. NOT ONLY IS IT TOO SLOW (CASES TAKE YEARS) BUT A NUMBER OF OUR JUDGES ACT AS IF THEY'RE GODS...WITH NO RESPECT BEING SHOWN TO CITIZENS. Some of these few so called judges shout and put up crazy shows in their halls making a mockery of the justice which they are supposed to hand out. Sentences are anything but stable....and the worst thing about it is that the Maltese who have a case in court will tell you that they are being shabbily treated very often (not always of course!)
Finally when, some weeks ago, I reported to ex Minister for Justice Dr. Carm Mifsud Bonnici that a Magistrate had arbitrarily stopped hearing his day's case load at 11.30am (to hell with the Citizens who went back home disappointed) following a Bomb Scare that was over at 11.30am the Minister's secretariat informed me that the executive cannot interfere in the Legislature! IS THIS

Paul Cassar

Feb 23rd, 17:02

BUT THE INCIDENCE OF 'ILLEGALITIES' IS SO HIGH................that one questions seriously WHO is engaging

these people.

HIM OR THEY ARE ANSWERABLE TO US BECAUSE IT IS OUR MONEY THEY ARE SQUANDERING.

victor caruana

Feb 23rd, 15:36

Tghidx hmerijiet sur Ministru. La kienet il-kummissjoni kontra l-korruzzjoni, la kien l-awditur generali, la kien il-ministeru u lanqas kienet transport malta li qabdet il-korruzzjoni. U minn jaf kemm kien hemm minn ipprova jahbi qabel hareg din il-korruzzjoni instituzzjonalizzata...

R. Cilia

Feb 23rd, 15:28

It is more likely that these were unfortunate and got caught.So many other abuses go unnoticed, let alone punished!

David Bailey

Feb 23rd, 15:00

The Ministry would be right had this been a single isolated case of fraud, but there have been systematic failures at TM over the years that show incompetency in management.

And political responsibility was never effected anyway, since both in the car licensing scandal and the public transport reform fiasco, the Ministers involved offered to resign but the PM refused their resignations. Change needs to come from the top.