Tag: Ministry of tourism
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Here’s a statement by the Naxxar Local Council on table-covers in public spaces
The Naxxar Local Council has been battling the Malta Tourism Authority and local businesses over their push to cover public spaces in Naxxar with table-covers for their catering establishments. Michael Zammit Tabona admitted here that he applied for table-covers for one of his establishments some years ago. His application was opposed by the Local Council,…
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The Minister for Tourism and his Director go cycling: sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism
The Minister for Tourism, Clayton Bartolo wants us to know that he went cycling with his mate and Director at the Ministry of Tourism, Kearon Bruno. Strangely enough, the government director and political canvasser for Clayton Bartolo wore a shirt featuring the Visit Malta logo alongside other private sponsors. The Labour government is always coming…
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How about the ROI of the Tourism-Media Rent-Seeking circuit?
If we are to speak about Return on Investment about public funding, it is in my self-interest to point out at the prospective debate of the ROI of the tourism-media rent-seeking circuit. The government subsidises the tourism industry in various ways especially by subsidising airlines like Ryanair to bring millions of tourists in Malta via…
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Let’s go on holiday to the United States of America: funded by the Maltese taxpayer
The Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo has found a new excuse to go to the United State of America with his now-wife on the back of taxpayer money: foreign advertising. Apparently, Malta’s advertising as a tourist destination needs regular visits by the Minister and his staff to New York. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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More bread and circuses sponsored by the Ministry of Clayton Bartolo
Only in a criminal state would the government spend its taxpayer funds to sponsor a host of international artists to entertain locals and tourists alike, while the government’s own executives fire local artists from their jobs while they also humiliate them in public. All the current large concerts being organised with international names such as…
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Lionel Gerada is being forced to resign by the Malta Tourism Authority’s CEO
An official from the Malta Tourism Authority has contacted me today telling me that Lionel Gerada is being forced to resign from his post by the newly-appointed CEO, Carlo Micallef. Lionel Gerada worked for Tumas Group during the same time he worked for the MTA and is known for a series of corrupt distribution of…
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Konrad Mizzi and Pierre Fenech would have also been arraigned in court, following Melvin Theuma’s case
Once again, if the police had treated Rosianne Cutajar’s phantom job case in the same way they treated Melvin Theuma’s, the corrupt enabler who directly executed Rosianne Cutajar’s contract would also have been arraigned in court, and this was none other than the ITS CEO Pierre Fenech. In Melvin Theuma’s case, Keith Schembri along with…
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Meet Clayton Bartolo’s “economist” and canvasser Kearon Bruno from FŻL
This post is part of an investigative series on the young Labour Party activists who have supported Prime Minister Robert Abela in exchange for their political support. This is Kearon Bruno, a canvasser for the Minister of Tourism Clayton Bartolo and a Robert Abela supporter who, of course, also works at the Ministry of Tourism…