Mario Dingli (‘Please wait’, December 28) must wait.

The real reason why minibus drivers have not yet received payment due is not only because it is the holiday season but because Finance Minister Edward Scicluna has been extremely busy sending out thousands of cheques to those thousands of members of the police force for the overtime work they had done in the 1990s and up to the end of the Nationalist governments’ reign. It had to be this Labour government to give them what should have been given to them by Dingli’s Nationalist Party.

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