Judgement Day

What goes around comes around and who inflicts will one day or another endure.

Under the present administration, many people in Gozo have suffered in silence for years for injustices inflicted on them and their families due to their political beliefs and even allegiances within the same party in Government. People are often given jobs and promoted not for their capabilities or qualifications but simply because they are close to someone politically powerful taking the candidate under the wing and flying him to the unmerited post.

A couple of years ago a gentleman came to see me. As soon as he stepped in my office he declared he is a staunch nationalist but what his own people did to him was humiliating and he could not take back stabbing.

He applied for a promotion and he was the most qualified – he was placed second and the promotion was awarded to somebody else less qualified. Luckily he was in time for a petition to the Public Service Commission to review the case. We petitioned and the PSC reviewed and investigated, finding that the applicant awarded the promotion presented an embezzled school leaving certificate. The matter was taken to the police for investigation and meanwhile the promotion was revoked and given to whom it rightly should have been awarded in the first place.

There are court proceedings now before the Gozo Court of Magistrates and the rest is public knowledge.

This case brought a break through – people are now seeing a ray of light. Whoever inflicts hardship cannot go unpunished because judgement day comes for all of us and now the time has come.