Partit Demokratiku’s motion of no confidence in Konrad Mizzi is important and needs to be done. If Parliament does not confront government, who will? Political stability requires governments to be propped up by Parliamentary majorities. That’s fair and it’s why things work. But accountability requires governments to answer to Parliamentary minorities. And Parliament is not [...]
Sit back and watch this Parliamentary speech by Karol Aquilina. If you say you don't understand what this is about it's because you're not watching. It's not that complicated. Look here. https://www.facebook.com/aquilinakarol/videos/2789994427892741/
You can see them take on the practice at the White House press room. If a question is fobbed off by the President or his spokespeople, the next journalist to take the floor asks the same question. It's the only way for the media to survive political control. The Speaker of our Parliament ordered The [...]
This article is the second in a series by Godfrey Leone Ganado digging up the background to the 17 Black scandal. I would like to start by recommending that you read my first article and also that you refer to an article published in The Malta Independent on 20 May 2018, penned by David Lindsay [...]
Guest Post sent in by someone I know who calls himself 'Lake'. I sometimes wonder what happened to the Nationalist Party. I remember a time not so long ago when I used to follow Eddie Fenech Adami. I was fifteen when he regained a parliamentary majority with a mandate to re-initiate EU membership negotiations. [...]
This is a statement delivered by Repubblika today: Repubblika expresses its anger in reaction to yesterday’s statement by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat that justified his decision to retain in office his Chief of Staff Keith Schembri and Minister Konrad Mizzi. On election’s eve in 2017 Joseph Muscat had already been justifying himself for two years [...]
17 Black is the worst scandal ever to have hit Maltese politics. There’s never been anything like it. At least there’s never been anything like it we have found out. The evidence is overwhelming. The documentary evidence is inescapable. If you cannot convict on this basis then really it is impossible to ever convict a [...]
An employee of the State with the job to take care of underage girls at an open shelter used his access and authority, and exploited their vulnerability, isolation and helplessness, to force them into sex. They’re underage so we can call it as it is: he raped them. At this point he is innocent until [...]
If all the loose ends are too much, Simon Busuttil patiently takes you through the 17 Black scandal and why you should be furious right now. If you aren't angry it's because you haven't understood what this is costing you. So watch this.
Employees of companies whose accounts are held up at Satabank for over a month sat down for lunch today at the entrance of the Ernst&Young office in Msida protesting at the "amateurish" way the 'competent person' appointed by the MFSA to administer the bank is managing the crisis there. I spoke to a number of [...]
John Oliver two days ago. Tell me if this is familiar in any way. Parental advisory to the editor of l-orizzont, Brian Hansford and fellow travellers. The video contains frequent use of the f-word. Shudder. For the rest of you grown-ups this is compulsory viewing.
A prosecutor in Bari has declared the case of a woman who thumped a journalist for asking her uncomfortable questions, an act of mafia. For decades we have gone on with the idea that organised crime is for movies and other countries we go to for holidays. It is clear we need to think again. [...]
Malta Today scoops everyone this morning with the news Darren Debono is back in Malta. There have been many reported sightings but Yannick Pace is the first to confirm the news. He doesn't say how he confirms it as his sources appear to be people who actually saw it but there is no quote from [...]
A few days ago I argued editors of independent media should seek the protection of the courts to stop the executive from choosing which journalists to speak to and which to ignore. I made the point after the Institute of Journalists complained Konrad Mizzi only invited One TV and TVM to his press conferences. The [...]
I had been looking for the right quote because I knew he had said it. I found a quote from the eve of the last election saying that if charges were brought against Keith Schembri he would have to resign. I found a report of the prime minister announcing his Cabinet in 2017 and confirming [...]
This is a statement issued by the Department of Information some time ago. This is supposed to be a clarification to what Michael Farrugia told TG3 yesterday. That comment appeared to confirm The Sunday Times's story yesterday that someone was about to be arrested for commissioning Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder. That was how I understood [...]
The following is a guest post by PD leader Godfrey Farrugia. A United Nations Report by a Panel of Experts in September 2018 and the report by the group of international journalists behind Daphne Project published last month, suggest that smuggling activity is taking place close to Maltese territorial waters and is organized by an [...]
No news as yet of any arrests in connection with the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia a day after they were pre-announced in the now infamous The Sunday Times front page story. It is wrong to dismiss the report in the newspaper. It has not been denied by any of the agencies mentioned in it, [...]
Happy to share this with you. Resident troll Pearl Fava posted under a link to a post of mine challenging me on whether my wife, Clemence, was responsible for the enhancements to the yellow canvas around the Great Siege Memorial last week. Pearl Fava does not know my wife doesn't need anyone to speak on [...]
Several hundred clients of Satabank continue to suffer hardship as they’ve had their bank accounts frozen for a month now. There has been no indication yet by Ernst & Young, appointed by the MFSA to manage the bank when any of these funds would be released to customers. Frustration mounts as Maltese authorities appear to [...]