From my article in The Sunday Times: "As accusations of treachery are handed out in fury, the party leader himself shows unhelpful ambivalence when, for example, the government makes a fresh attempt to promote Consuelo Scerri Herrera and reward her with a judgeship, showing remarkable contempt for the institutions such as the reviewing committee that [...]

That Sandro Camilleri guy gives me the creeps. For starters he’s a stereotype dressed as a self-fulfilling prophecy pretending to be proverbial. I know I’m the last person to give advice on physical appearance but those walnut crushing biceps of his are impossible to ignore on a ranking police officer. For remember he is that [...]

I don’t suppose anyone doubts anymore that the investigation of crimes with political ramifications is a politically controlled affair here in Malta. The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia does not merely have political ramifications. It is a political killing: the termination of a person to reach political ends, to serve political interests, commissioned by political [...]

This is an extract from Rai Uno's Porta a Porta that covered Ivan Grech Mintoff's testimony in the courts about the massive Libya scam in which more than 80,000 visas are believed to have been "sold" from Malta's consulates in Libya to people willing to pay for them, including terrorists and militiamen. Read more on [...]

Malta's Labour office has contacted Maria Efimova to inform her Pilatus Bank has settled her outstanding salary from when she worked for three unpaid months as executive assistant to Ali Sadr. In the ironic turn of events, Pilatus Bank have effectively admitted Maria Efimova’s complaint against them was justified and she was indeed owed payment. [...]

Nexia BT — Mossack Fonseca (Malta) — Kasco Group. These are three dots in the orbit of Keith Schembri and his grand fraudulent scheme to cover illicit income, avoid paying taxes and use his public office for personal office. A fourth dot is MFSP, the four-partner investment agency that managed Keith Schembri’s British Virgin Islands [...]

It is truly awful how badly the leadership of the PN is handling itself. There’s clearly a stubborn bunker atmosphere, barking orders to mobilise formations that exist only on a map, taking comfort from self-serving flattery, and seeking solace in imaginary magnanimity from the enemy as traditional support is deemed unworthy of its leadership. I [...]

In the heat of the French Revolution, the leaders of that upheaval did not sit down to write a charter about the rights of French people. They wrote instead the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen’. Universal rights is by no means a universal understanding of what citizenship should be about. But [...]

Visit this website: Picture of the EU. It’s a journey across Europe and its current stories. Read the bewildering story of Malta from the points of few of civil rights activists here.

So Neville Gafa’ told Times of Malta he is “denying all of Mr Grech Mintoff’s allegations and reserved the right to take legal action”. He was reacting to documentation tabled by Ivan Grech Mintoff in a civil suit where he said potential witnesses who have had bribes solicited off them from Neville Gafa for Malta [...]

Watch this video from Net News. Clyde Puli uses his TV platform to reiterate the remarks he gave The Malta Independent. He explains the process of selecting candidates and criticises a ‘section of the media’, which the reporter specifies as Times of Malta, for deceiving its readers. https://youtu.be/OZd9TQl50vs It was not just Times of Malta [...]

This is the speech delivered yesterday by Benjamin Dalli at the vigil for truth of justice, 8 months since Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed: Walking into Valletta in the afternoon is an attack on the senses. The hostile stone and the harsh light is reminiscent of autocracies – the clenched fist with which they rule [...]

Art historian Martina Caruana yesterday gave a memorable speech placing the context of the monthly Daphne Caruana Galizia vigils on the 16th of every month with the Great Siege Memorial that dominates the location. Here's an English translation of the speech: We have gathered here again to mark the 8th month since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s [...]

Thank you Andrew Borg-Cardona. We as activists have to reclaim the public space this government has encroached on. We've come to the point that whilst we tip-toe around the authorities to ensure no sensibilities are even slightly offended, a policeman has this week actually physically blocked a journalist from taking pictures. Policemen have removed protest [...]

Frederick Testa is a tagħnalkoller scrounger on the public purse officially 'cultural liaison officer with the Arts Council in Malta'. He's there because he's one of the thugs in the class of Mario Azzopardi that help give Labour its appealing pederastic image. Here he is out in the comments boards on Facebook saying David Casa [...]

This photo was taken by Darrin Zammit Lupi for Reuters. A policeman tried to block his lens even though the photographer told him he was a journalist doing his job.   As you can still figure out the policeman was seeking to censor a protest by Il-Kenniesa that showed cardboard cutouts of Keith Schembri and [...]

Jacob Borg’s Times of Malta story yesterday revealed MFSP Financial has been fined by the FIAU for breaching MFSA laws. It is right that intermediaries are checked and held to account as these cowboy operations enable the crimes of money launderers, tax dodgers and fraudsters. But that’s only half the job done. If the FIAU [...]

Cyrus Engerer already meant to run for MEP in the past. He withdrew his candidature in the last minute because of a conviction for spreading revenge porn photos of his ex boyfriend after a bad breakup. His withdrawal from the candidature was hailed by Labour’s Joseph Muscat as heroic. Indeed he endowed a former PN [...]

Statement today by #occupyjustice: A Tree of Justice was ‘planted’ outside Upper Barrakka Gardens on Saturday afternoon with protest letters hanging as ‘fruit’ from its branches, to mark eight months since the assassination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. “The roots of evil are all we are left with,” said #OccupyJustice, a group of activists [...]

Darrin Zammit Lupi, Reuters photographer, wanted to take a photo of Castille this morning. A policeman disagreed. This is the result.