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Muzzling the experts
The news of Kenneth Grech’s reinstatement with the COVID team “in three or four weeks” seems positive. The subtext that “government is reluctant to provide details on timelines” is where the real message lies. Read: maybe never.
If the government was serious about undoing yet another faux pas, it would be ‘three or four minutes’. This has all the air of a voice of dissent being summarily swept aside by an increasingly dictatorial attitude. This, at a time when our COVID record should be sounding the alarm among reasonable people; when we’ve had the summer and Christmas season debacles… And now look forward to another one – fuq tlieta toqgħod il-borma – for carnival/non-carnival in Gozo.
Kenneth Grech, the head of Malta’s COVID-19 public health response team, was not axed from his position but rather has been “redirected” to his original pre-pandemic duties.
Speaking to Lovin Malta, the Ministry for Health denied that Grech was removed from his post due to a recent dispute between the government and the Malta Union of Teachers over the reopening of schools amid a spike in cases.
The Times of Malta had earlier claimed that Grech had advised the Education Ministry, its Permanent Secretary in the Education Ministry Frank Fabri, and other relevant stakeholders to shut down schools.
The advice, the report says, was leaked to the MUT, who then called a two-day strike over the issue. Schools have since reopened following negotiations between MUT and the government.
Scotland has Robert the Bruce. We have Robert the Honest.
“I was honest, like the government I lead was,” Robert Abela declared with a straight fac