She once sat in the newsroom of the state broadcaster. With a straight face she often read out a news bulletin which always spoke about the bright side of life. She worked tirelessly to inform the public of the great achievements of the Labour administration.
The Vitals great foreign investment deal, the Montenegro Windfarm and all the infrastructural success in the fields of traffic, health and energy, were only a few of the important subjects she dealt with, with spotless impartiality and objectivity.
It was therefore only natural that the Labour Party would want to acquire someone with her wide experience. It was decided to move her out of PBS and give her over to working full time in the sole interests of the Party.
In order to avoid the public shock of her sudden transition from state-owned news reporter to partisan propagandist, they arranged her a cute sabbatical alibi.
She was given a newly created fully paid position in charge of an "ad hoc" government funded entity for the promotion of the Maltese language. As intended, this guaranteed that nothing was heard from her or about her for over a year.
It was only after sometime that we learnt that she had been chosen to become the "official head of communications and spokesperson" for the Labour Party.
Her first article in the Times of Malta was akin to a doctoral thesis on why the Nationalist Party cannot be taken seriously. Her leading conclusion was that the PN which "rightfully campaigned and secured" EU membership "was totally unprepared" to deal with it.
Yes, she used the word "rightfully" to correct the historical fact that the PL leadership was once campaigned against joining the EU.
She was right about the PN failing from 2004 up to 2013 to cash in on the sale of Malta's (EU) citizenship, and of failing to boost the economy on a policy of unsustainable development and massive cheap labour.
It took a new Labour Government and Joseph Muscat to get the country all fired up on new progressive ideas.
It was Muscat who saved Enemalta by selling a third of it to China. He also sold them the nasty BWSC "cancer factory" along with a secret deal that meant that the new owners would be paid an annual guaranteed return even when producing nothing. It was a deal that gave them a return of capital within four to five years, paid for by the Maltese households.
Meanwhile, a Minister's wife returned to her native China to open a non-existent consular office on a 13,000 euro per month salary.
The Planning Authority was quickly converted into a millionaire developer maker. Before Muscat, it was a not- too-friendly guardian of the environment. The PL rendered it totally irrelevant.
Under the PN, methinks, the public interest was given too much importance. Not enough was given to the private interests of the chosen few. Since 2013, for example, an illegal swimming pool or illegal possession of a national historical artifact is allowed if you either know, or better still, you are yourself an important man in cabinet.
As Norma said in her article, it was time for the PN "to straighten itself out" as the PL had done so since coming to power in 2013. Alfred Sant himself learnt the hard way that you don't win elections by telling the truth. Muscat showed us that you win them easy by controlling the narrative in the state media and by handing out sweets at election time.
In her article, Norma also described the result of last June's poll not as a gain for the PN but as a situation where a "chunk" of traditional PL supporters stayed at home on voting day. And she's right again here. Because when it comes to illicit favours, fake disability pensions and fake jobs with government, local councillors and MEPs are as good as useless.
Still referring to June, Norma asserted that "no time has been lost since" in changing chairs within the Labour Party structure and in "reaching out" to the aforementioned PL absentees. The latter consists of phone calls from the "Minister's office" asking you if you need anything the Minister can help you with.
She asked us what the PN stood for without telling us what the PL stood for.
In the past week we have read about MFA game fixing with promises of fake government jobs. Then we had the dance couple of Minister Clayton and his girlfriend to be wife who worked in Gozo but never signed in.
We heard how the EU has found drainage overflow into our bays even when the prime minister, before June, claimed this to be a big fat lie.
The truth is not something the PL stands for. The proof of this is the last eleven years.
Norma described Lawrence Gonzi as an "arch conservative". Dealing with the momentous year of change of 2013, she skipped any reference to the fact that that was the year in which that the top men in the PL had opened up secret Panama companies and engaged in million euro matters using private email addresses and digital apps on smart phone.
Gonzi never involved himself in criminal associations and nor did he retire early from politics to become a consultant to a company connected to a scam which he himself orchestrated years before.
Norma finally called the PN a party of "confusion". She might be right. But today, it's no longer in doubt that the Labour Party, "au contraire", is the party of corruption. It has shown that it knowingly pursues a road map designed to keep a hold on to power, to get rich by abusing it and to finally leave it to the next generations to clean up the mess and to service a huge national debt it will leave us with.