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Lou Bondì paid €54,000 to be OPM consultant
Former TVM broadcaster and self-declared Nationalist supporter is paid €54,000 as a consultant to the Prime Minister for the Fondazzjoni Ċelebrazzjonijiet Maltin
5 December 2014, 11:14am
Matthew Vella
Matthew Vella
1 min read
Lou Bondi earns as much as Joseph Muscat with his 'person of trust' engagement with the Labour government
Extract from the contract of Lou Bondì
Former broadcaster Lou Bondì is being paid €54,000 – excluding VAT – for his services to the government as a consultant of the Prime Minister.
At €3,813 a month, plus an annual €8,240 retainer to cover operational expenses, Bondì – earns as much as Malta’s prime minister.
A former chairman of Radio 101 and presenter of Bondiplus on PBS, Bondì had his contract to serve as consultant to the Office of the Prime Minister renewed for another year, The Times reported today after obtaining the contract through a freedom of information request.
According to the new contract, signed between Bondì and civil service head Mario Cutajar, the former Bondiplus host serves as a consultant to the OPM’s Fondazzjoni Ċelebrazzjonijiet Maltin until the middle of next year.
He is engaged as a ‘person of trust’ and is not to be considered an employee of the government.
Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...
