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The revolting Clayon Bartolo

The Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo should resign. Finance Ministry should take over Ministry for Tourism

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Mark Camilleri
in

As a previous government executive who ran a public entity, the constant revelations of excessive public spending on festivities, marketing gimmicks, lavish parties, and other unnecessary items that are unwarranted in the expenditure of any government entity imaginable,

I am totally revolted by the behavior and the actions of the Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo who is using public coffers in the most reckless and offensive ways possible.

Not even in the heights of excessive Nationalist-government rent-seeking did we ever see this revolting level of public expenditure gone awry simply to appease the tastes and desires of the Minister and his bureaucrats.

If the Minister for Finance has any dignity left, he should go to the cabinet meeting today, demand Clayont Bartolo’s resignation, and immediately take over all the bank accounts under the responsibility of the Ministry for Tourism and all of its entities.

If Clyde Caruana doesn’t do this today or this week, he’s a total fucking clown and he doesn’t have any authority whatsoever to speak about taxes and fiscal responsibility.

 

Comments

  1. Last hope avatar
    Last hope

    No chance of a change in government but at least let’s have a decent leadership with some ministers worth their salt. Perhaps Malta can be saved from Armageddon!

    Reply
  2. Joe avatar
    Joe

    This guy must be the most loved boss by any minister’s underlings.

    It’s a wonder that any of them turn up for work.

    Or do they?

    Reply
  3. Anonymous avatar
    Anonymous

    I think it?s good that the PAC is focusing a lot on the Electrogas matter however there are other matters which are just being left unignored! Where are the protests outside the tourism ministry? Isn?t this more of a daylight robbery than what influencers are being paid to promote gardens? Isn?t this a bigger motivation and much more important than assassinating a person on social media? What role is the independent media playing in all of this? All you have to do is look at LovinMalta – they are the first to criticise the MTA and the Minister for overspending but then they are media partners (official ones) at most of the MTA events. This means that they too are benefiting from the overspending – so how can we ever take them seriously? The Times is another example, butchering the MTA on the front pages but then selling adverts to the same MTA to promote the same events which it wrote that they overspent on! This is the ridiculous situation which we are being faced with! Lionel Gerada is still there sucking a director?s salary with no executive power, the Minister?s canvasser Kearon Bruno is there running the sponsorship racket together with his friends from the Ministry, 356 entertainment are still using the MTA as their personal ATM, the Chairman and CEO are still enjoying travelling around ?to promote Malta? probably on first class seats in both directions, the CEO is still being purposely used as a puppet and he has no choice because his job and that of his wife both rest in the hands of Robert Abela in either of his roles, the MTA is still being used to hand out money to anything that breathes in the Minister?s Districts, even a billiard room in Naxxar which is sure to attract tourists, and in the meantime, the very core of the MTA, the Marketing Department is still without a Director, Senior officials keep resigning and not replaced, so much so that the MTA doesn?t even have a PR person at the moment safe for people tal-qalba and every now and again you guys open our eyes with stories like these! The MTA doesn?t even have an enforcement director just because he probably didn?t want to go against his will and do something that he didn’t want to do! The list is endless but it?s too much to fit them all in a comment! It is better if this becomes the primary focus rather than the ruddy Film Awards because we all know that Johann Grech will bulldoze and if he wants to do them on the moon next year he will, because he doesn?t care or because he knows stuff about the Minister that can be used against him!

    The MTA has become a laughing stock, there is probably more imports of useless merchandise than there are staff members recruited! Imbaghad this week jigu jonfqu half page nearly on the Times to advertise the Marketing Executive Vacancy – with the cost of that advert (in full colour) being probably equal to half the pay of the vacant post. Where were the adverts for the vacancy of Mr Kearon Bruno and for the vacancies created by all those who have left? Ridiculous management with warped priorities apart from one – to do whatever Clayton Bartolo and his childish staff want – and that also includes choice of suppliers!

    PAC needs a good three months on this?because it is only going to get worse!

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  4. AnonyMous avatar
    AnonyMous

    I think it?s good that the PAC is focusing a lot on the Electrogas matter however there are other matters which are just being left ignored! Where are the protests outside the tourism ministry? Isn?t this more of a daylight robbery than what influencers are being paid to promote gardens? Isn?t this a bigger motivation and much more important than assassinating a person on social media? What role is the independent media playing in all of this? All you have to do is look at LovinMalta – they are the first to criticise the MTA and the Minister for overspending but then they are media partners (official ones) at most of the MTA events. This means that they too are benefiting from the overspending – so how can we ever take them seriously? The Times is another example, butchering the MTA on the front pages but then selling adverts to the same MTA to promote the same events which it wrote that they overspent on! This is the ridiculous situation which we are being faced with! Lionel Gerada is still there sucking a director?s salary with no executive power, the Minister?s canvasser Kearon Bruno is there running the sponsorship racket together with his friends from the Ministry, 356 entertainment are still using the MTA as their personal ATM, the Chairman and CEO are still enjoying travelling around ?to promote Malta? probably on first class seats in both directions, the CEO is still being purposely used as a puppet and he has no choice because his job and that of his wife both rest in the hands of Robert Abela in either of his roles, the MTA is still being used to hand out money to anything that breathes in the Minister?s Districts, even a billiard room in Naxxar which is sure to attract tourists, and in the meantime, the very core of the MTA, the Marketing Department is still without a Director, Senior officials keep resigning and not replaced, so much so that the MTA doesn?t even have a PR person at the moment safe for people tal-qalba and every now and again you guys open our eyes with stories like these! The MTA doesn?t even have an enforcement director just because he probably didn?t want to go against his will and do something that he didn’t want to do! The list is endless but it?s too much to fit them all in a comment! It is better if this becomes the primary focus rather than the ruddy Film Awards because we all know that Johann Grech will bulldoze and if he wants to do them on the moon next year he will, because he doesn?t care or because he knows stuff about the Minister that can be used against him!

    The MTA has become a laughing stock, there is probably more imports of useless merchandise than there are staff members recruited! Imbaghad this week jigu jonfqu half page nearly on the Times to advertise the Marketing Executive Vacancy – with the cost of that advert (in full colour) being probably equal to half the pay of the vacant post. Where were the adverts for the vacancy of Mr Kearon Bruno and for the vacancies created by all those who have left? Ridiculous management with warped priorities apart from one – to do whatever Clayton Bartolo and his childish staff want – and that also includes choice of suppliers!

    PAC needs a good three months on this?because it is only going to get worse!

    Reply
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