Yana Mintoff

Yana Bland or Yana Bland Mintoff ( Yana Joan Mintoff ) is a Maltese Labour politician, economist and educator. Mintoff was born on 21 August 1951, the daughter of the former Prime Minister of Malta, Dom Mintoff and Moyra De Vere Bentinck, by whom she is descended from both Dutch and British nobility.

Career Whilst a teacher in the United Kingdom, Yana Mintoff was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. On 6 July 1978 Mintoff took part in a demonstration in the UK House of Commons; in a protest against the presence of UK troops in Northern Ireland, three bags of horse manure were hurled from the public gallery during a debate on Scottish devolution.

On her return to Malta, she helped establish the Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region. Mintoff helped compile four books of collected works.

In the US in 1998, Mintoff was a founder and superintendent of the Katherine Anne Porter School, a charter school in Wimberley. She was a candidate in the 2013 Maltese general election, but failed to get elected to the House of Representatives.

Family Mintoff's first husband was Geoff Mainwaring. Her second husband was David P. Bland whom she married in 1991.