Letters | Sunday, 25 October 2009

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Tonio Fenech’s refusal of public apology

According to MaltaToday’s front page (18 October, 2009) Tonio Fenech turned down a suggestion for a public apology during the Nationalist party’s parliamentary group meeting held on 14 October. Former health minister Louis Deguara suggested that Tonio Fenech should be pro-active and issue a “public apology” for having travelled with businessman George Fenech (no relation) in order to watch Arsenal in action.
I would remind the Honourable Deguara that when a certain government minister was toying with the idea of closing down a number of government polyclinics (including the Floriana polyclinic), in certain parts of the island, exactly before the 8 March, 2008 general election, he himself did not do the “honourable thing” and did not admit to thinking on these lines when a section of the local media went public and revealed what was going on. On the contrary, he was barefaced enough to deny the matter when interviewed by the press.
For the record: in all probability, were it not for the public opposition conducted by the Floriana local council and other entities, today (in 2009) the Floriana government polyclinic would have already been dismantled and shut down, and this after the Valletta polyclinic had long undergone a similar fate.

Edward Torpiano
Floriana

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