A
s Minister responsible for Malta���s Tourism in the
early eighties I could never have known that an American
gentleman I had never met before would eventually become
a close friend and one with whom I would share a vision. ��
Christopher Hyland was cruising the Mediterranean with
family and friends in the mid 1980���s when he stopped at
Malta. He had an introduction to Moira Mintoff, the English
wife of Malta���s legendary Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff, under
whom I served first as Minister for Industry and then as
Minister of Tourism. Mintoff had just resigned the premiership
handing it over to Dr. Karmeno Mifsud Bonnici, a prominent
civil lawyer never before involved in politics. ��Moira Mintoff
arranged for Christopher and his party to meet her husband
and then he in turn arranged a meeting for them with the
new Prime Minister Mifsud Bonnici.
HYLAND
