More on the subject of public finances and the University of Malta.
One of the most pervasive characteristics of the University of Malta is the sleaze and corruption that comes with the nepotism of any government controlled public entity. The University of Malta gets away with a lot of sleaze and mediocrity on the pretense that it is an “autonomous organisation”. Its supposed “autonomy” is not doing it any favours according to any metric or statistic that can measure the university’s performance and production.
One of the most talked about sleazy figures at the University who always got away with it is Professor Anthony Serracino Inglott who also happens to be the Chairperson of the Medicines Authority. Anthony Serracino-Inglott is 80-years old and is not able to deliver proper lectures in his condition yet, is a full-time lecturer at the University of Malta and simultaneously Chairperson of the Medicines Authority. His students are always complaining that they are getting nothing our of his lectures except ramblings about his travels, but he has been allowed to remain employed there because apparently, he is living with the Head of Department of Pharmacy, Professor Lilian Azzopardi.
The couple have been traveling extensively together this year on conferences and “work-related” matter. This year alone, they have flown together to South Korea, Hong Kong, Birsbane, Bergen, Bordeaux, Ankara and even Cape Town. As head of the Medicines Authority, Anthony Serracino-Inglott also has a troubling history. He once denied a permit for the opening of a pharmacy in the same locality where he also owns a pharmacy. Talk about a conflict of interest.
At the Labour Party, my sources always told me that he was favoured by Joseph Muscat, and that is why he ended up at the Medicines Authority. There are many privileged rent-seekers like him at the University of Malta greasing it from public funds and he is just one example.
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