Architect Robert Ellul Sciberras has resigned from the Building and Construction Authority, with his main criticism being that the Authority is prioritising bureaucracy over safety. This is exactly how dysfunctional and ineffective bureaucracies work: an over-emphasis on legal and pseudo-legal arrangements and processes that defeat the purpose of regulation and effective enforcement. If you want to kill the efficiency of a public entity, you only need to lead it with incompetent executive imbeciles (ba?u?li) who think that their job is to follow arbitrary and pseudo-legal processes instead of seeing effective and material results from their work.
One particular case in how the Building and Construction Authority has so far been ineffective is the case of J & G Farrugia Contractors. One of the owners of the company, Glenn Farrugia, once dumped an injured worker in the road and subsequently the police arraigned him to court. Yet, there has been no court sentence on the incident, so far, and in the meantime J & G Farrugia Contractors have went to continue expanding even doing several large projects.
Despite the emphasis on paperwork, the authority hasn’t yet even published the list of registered contractors, on its website, and this is also related to how J & G Farrugia Contractors could get away with it. One of the problems with J & G Farrugia when they were known to the public thanks to their horrible way at treating their workers, was that they weren’t a registered contractor.
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