Salary Raises in Malta

A lot of people in this country don't realize how important a job interview is vis-a-vis future salary. Can you believe I worked for a company where often a new employee would say he/she took the job without knowing what the salary was?

Salaries in Malta aren't only about what you're getting paid to do the job now, but also about what you're EVER going to get paid, period. Unless you get a promotion, your salary will stay the same. So when you're being interviewed, you better negotiate and get the best deal possible, because you're gonna be stuck with it forever.

Or do as I did, beat the system: work for one of the handful of foreign companies based here. They treat their employees right. Their employees enjoy working there. Their employees are motivated, more effective and efficient. As a result they make the company earn more money. But you cannot expect Maltese employers to know that, can you?

When you kill an innocent civilian in Iraq

...just leave a "drop weapon" on his corpse.

Those are the orders.

Lead us by example

Excerpt from TimesOfMalta:

Lawyer and family offered Gozo rape girl €7,000 deal

Two other lawyers, priest involved in the case

A lawyer and close relatives of the men accused of raping a 14-year-old girl persuaded the alleged victim's family to sign a contract stating they would not testify in court in return for €7,000 in "psychological support".

The girl's mother told The Sunday Times that she signed the contract under intense pressure from the group and out of fear of exposing the issue to the Gozitan community. But she regretted it immediately and together with her daughter forged ahead with the complaint.

The defendants, brothers Peter Paul and Josef Said, stand accused of raping the girl, while Mark Lorry Said and Peter Paul Debono were charged with her defilement. They are all under house arrest.

However, the girl's mother said her family had to withstand pressure from a number of people before the case reached the courts.

She said they were approached by close relatives of the Said brothers and a priest, who acted as an intermediary, shortly after the rape and defilement allegations were made last month...

Life on a pig farm

WARNING: VIDEO FEATURES SHOCKING VIOLENCE TOWARDS ANIMALS




Who's the animal?

Moving towards dystopia

...and nobody's doing a damn thing about it.

There'll be lots of talk but no action

Front Page of In-Nazzjon (01/08/2008):

"Dak li jdgħajjef jew ikisser iż-żwieġ għandu konsegwenzi serji" - Isqfijiet Maltin

As Saviour Balzan said on MaltaToday, "The fact that the statement was given such front-page prominence on the PN organ In-Nazzjon goes to show that the powers that be consider any reference to divorce to be anathema to their values."

Dalli wants to talk about divorce. Gonzi will let him in order to give the impression than PN, like MLP, wants to do something about the lack of this social right. But forget about divorce being introduced under the administration of the ex-head of Azzjoni Kattolika, nephew of the bishop tal-Interdett.

An earthquake of change

0.000001 on the Richter scale.

When a new shop opens in Malta

MARINTON
Fetah hanut gdid, Kuncett.

KUNCETT
Tlaqna, Marinton!