When discussing the srtory of the Maltese Language Council, one may also make reference to the fact that in the past two years, most of the members of the National Book Council have resigned. The National Book Council is currently composed of just two members apart from the chairman and the secretary: Maria Brown (a long-time Labourite) and Daniela Attard Bezzina (Emanuel Psaila’s wife) – these members have little and near nothing to do with the book industry. Some employees have also resigned from their posts.
By law the National Book Council should have a publishers’ representative – it has none.
The National Book Council was wrecked as a vindictive and personal act against me personally and to curb the autonomy and power I was handing over to the book industry. My successor was appointed simply for the fact that he shares my name – the Labour bureaucrat’s idea of a bad joke. He is also completely incompetent and this is his first job ever outside a school (he’s a teacher who has been appointed to a top executive government post).
The Labour Party has trashed and captured our cultural public entities and usurped them for its own interests. It is the culture industries that pay the price for this, and despite the fact that Labour is doing its best efforts to hurt me in the book industry, its actions are inevitably hurting others even more.
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