Broadcasting Authority staff slam their chairwoman in letter to Prime Minister

Staff members at the Broadcasting Authority are up in arms against their chairwoman and have asked for the Prime Minister’s direct intervention, the Times of Malta is informed. Stopping short from asking for her outright sacking, the majority of employees at the Broadcasting Authority, about 30 in all, told Joseph Muscat that the chairwoman was not fit for the job and pushed the regulator backwards. “Since the appointment of the current chairwoman, Tanya Borg Cardona, the authority has taken a turn downwards,” they wrote in a signed letter dated February 3. “She has absolutely no knowledge of broadcasting and, after 13 months in office, has not contributed in any way to safeguard and promote broadcasting regulation,” they wrote. READ: BA chair's Eurovision trip cost €3,500 In their no-holds-barred hard-hitting letter, the employees told the Prime Minister that the chairwoman, appointed on Dr Muscat’s own recommendation, “has a complete disregard of the Constitution, laws and regulations”. Pointing towards her “unsavoury character”, they accused her of “intimidation, bullying and victimisation towards staff members, management included”. With just a year to go until the general...