Tag: Olvin Vella
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The Maltese Language Council: digging deeper in its hole
The Maltese Language Council has issued a very unhinged and delusional PR defending its own President, who was caught lying to the public in a desperate act of ingratiation with Culture Minister Owen Bonnici. Instead of focusing their guns against the government, they keep shooting themselves in the foot. It’s sad that I have to…
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Lying to the public as a head of the Language Council is ok according to Michael Cooperson
Michael Cooperson, an academic, has written an article, published in the Times defending his friend Olvin Vella by saying that Olvin’s mistake was simply that he didn’t read the fine print. Olvin Vella didn’t commit a mistake because “he didn’t read the fine print”. He lied, knowingly and willingly to the Language Council and to…
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Minister for Culture uses Whatsapp Message as proof of official confirmation
Minister for Culture Owen Bonnici is using a Whatsapp message by Olvin Vella, President of the Maltese Language Council, as evidence of the Council’s approval of Norma Saliba’s appointment. You can see the Minister’s court document here Norma Saliba’s job description is similar to that of the current CEO of the Language Council, Thomas Pace,…
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The University of Malta: a very corrupt state of affairs
Last week, it was revealed by the Times of Malta that the President of the Maltese Language Council lied to the general public and to his colleagues about the government’s plans to launch a new entity headed by a Labour Party acolyte. He hid the news from his colleagues and lied publicly about not having…
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It turns out that Olvin Vella is an official fraud
It’s incredible what total frauds many of our academics have turned out to be. Currently, Maltese academics are the most efficient lackeys of the Government. Olvin Vella has always been like this – fraudulently wheeling and dealing with different government administrations to pursue his interests. Many of them are like him and I know them…
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An extremely rare breed in the Maltese academic wasteland – a dissident academic
Local academics such as Olvin Vella have welcomed the appointment of a pro-Labour government propagandist as head of The Centre of Maltese Language. Olvin Vella even praised Norma Saliba for her supposed capabilities in an explicit and humiliating show of ingratiation. Thankfully there is at least someone from academia who has the courage to speak…
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Maltese academics can’t ingratiate enough with the Labour Party
Maltese academics are barely involved in civil society’s efforts to clean up the country and that’s because most of them prefer to spend their time ingratiating with the government and the Labour Party instead of participating in society’s relevant struggles. Olvin Vella, a lecturer and the chairman of The National Council of the Maltese Language…

