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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 14 JANUARY 2015 4 News The chosen candidate will undertake day to day accounting activities, such as the preparation of accounts up to Trial Balance, the raising of invoices and processing of payment remittances, reconciliation of bank accounts, data inputting, credit and debt control and the preparation of payroll and VAT returns. The successful candidate will preferably hold an AAT, an A level qualification in Accounts, or be in the early stages of ACCA or equivalent. Prior experience in an accounting role and familiarity with a Sage environment will be considered an asset. Besides being meticulous and conscientious, the successful candidate should demonstrate an ability to prioritize tasks and work under pressure. The successful applicant will work in Gozo. About the company Our company has long been established in the ceramic tile and sanitary ware business and has in recent years set up a subsidiary for the manufacturing of cement blocks and the processing of marble and Gozo hardstone. The company is based in Gozo with a showroom in Guardamangia. www.afellis.com.mt. Applicants are requested to apply by 16 January 2015 in writing, enclosing a c.v., to : The Managing Director, A.F.Ellis (Home Decor) Ltd., 16 Għajn Qatet Street, Victoria, Gozo VCT 2101. or by e-mail mail@afellis.com.mt Accounts ExEcutivE (based in Gozo) Former chief of staff sues Nationalist newspaper FORMER home affairs minister Manuel Mallia's then chief of staff, Silvio Scerri, has sued In-Nazzjon for defamatory libel, after it pub- lished an article titled "Paul Shee- han 'made to lie about shots in the air'", which claimed that Scerri had advised Paul Sheehan, then the driver for the ex-minister for home affairs, to lie to police arriv- ing on the scene of the November shooting incident. The libel suit, filed yesterday morning against Alexander At- tard – the then editor of the news- paper – said that the allegations were spurious and intended to harm Scerri's reputation, and re- quested the court to declare the article as defamatory and to liqui- date damages accordingly. The article, penned by journal- ist Joe Mikallef, alleged that in a telephone conversation immedi- ately after Sheehan allegedly fired shots at a civilian vehicle that had clipped the ministerial car's side mirror, "a person who spoke to Constable Sheehan instructed him to tell the police that he had fired two warning shots in the air and never to say that he had aimed at the other vehicle". The article goes on to claim that "high level sources in govern- ment" had informed the news- paper that the person who gave those instructions to Sheehan was Silvio Scerri, the then chief of staff in Mallia's ministry. Scerri had denied the allegations, telling reporters "I did not call Sheehan. I do not even have his number as I hardly know him". Scerri had denied the allegations, telling reporters "I did not call Sheehan. I do not even have his number as I hardly know him" Family sues SVDP home for inhuman, degrading treatment of resident MATTHEW AGIUS THE widow and children of a resi- dent at St Vincent de Paul home for the elderly have filed a case in the constitutional court against the gov- ernment, claiming that the man was subjected to inhuman and degrad- ing treatment, deprived of his right to privacy and eventually his right to life. In an application filed on their behalf by lawyer Tonio Azzopardi against the Family Ministry, the CEO of SVPR and the Health Min- istry, the family of Leonard Tho- mas Lancaster claim that he was a victim of "the grossly negligent and irresponsible behaviour of nursing officers," resulting in necrosis and hypothermia. Lancaster, who passed away on August 28 aged 81, had suffered sev- eral strokes, leaving him partially paralysed. In June 2014, he was ad- mitted to the home, where his rela- tives allege that he was neglected by the staff. He was subsequently transferred to Mater Dei Hospital in July when doc- tors found him to be suffering from gangrene, attributable to his "medi- cal abandonment" at the home. The elderly patient had spent sev- eral hours in a hospital corridor, di- rectly under an air conditioner, even though he was suffering from hypo- thermia. The application attributed a subsequent chest infection, after which his condition deteriorated, to this fact. The application says his medical records contained a note which said that necrosis and pus col- lection were found in the area of his urethra and rectum and alleges that the carers used the same shaving blade on different patients and that nursing officers ignored complaints. Lancaster was also put at risk of choking while being offered solids by his carers in spite of a "nil by mouth" instruction. One relative claimed to have seen a carer wiping another pa- tient's face with the same cloth with which he had wiped a table.