Organisations engaged as partners by the Council of Europe to promote the protection of journalism and the safety of journalists see no “credible indications that Maltese authorities are diligently investigation who planned and commissioned the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia”. The report was authored by the European Federation of Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, [...]

At 9.45 am, Malta Today posted comments by Charlon Gouder calling for the removal of the Director General of Fisheries as a result of the revelations in the Spanish press of a corruption racket in the industry he lobbies for. That’s the same time, to the minute, that Ivan Martin of Times of Malta was [...]

Yesterday the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee finalised a motion for the European Parliament's plenary that would call on the government to publish the Egrant inquiry in full and to stop the ignoble passport scheme. For brevity is the soul of wit, here's Roberta Metsola's intervention at the Committee meeting yesterday. https://www.facebook.com/roberta.metsola/videos/vb.406824526101449/2535209209853665/?type=2&theater

The European Parliament's Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (TAX3), summoned the Maltese Justice Minister Owen Bonnici to answer questions on Malta’s failure to investigate alleged money laundering in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, exposed by the Panama Papers.  The Panama Papers, back in 2016, revealed that Malta Prime [...]

Now disgraced Andreina Fenech Farrugia, who until her suspension this morning was Director-General for Fisheries, was nominated in 2017 by the government to chair the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). The Commission, based in Madrid, Spain, is set up by international treaty to promote limits on over-fishing for tuna and tuna-like [...]

13 February, 2019. 11:08. Adds video of David Casa's intervention. Watching Owen Bonnici and then Matthew Caruana Galizia field questions at the special tax evasion committee of the European Parliament yesterday was a spectacle in contrasts. I don’t think Owen Bonnici has much hope in reading a favourable review. But boy, that guy is really [...]

In record time the government acted on allegations of corruption this morning. A story published on a Spanish newspaper at 5 am this morning said Andreina Fenech Farrugia, until then Director General of the Fisheries Department, solicited bribes to allow “fish laundering”. That’s allowing a tuna company (the one we know of) to fatten more [...]

Spanish online news-site El Confidencial reported today that the Benemerita (the Spanish civil police) have intercepted phone conversations that “reveal that Malta’s Fisheries boss collaborated with a criminal network that illegally fished and commercialised tuna”. The report is based on a conversation on 20 June 2018 where the Director General of the Department of Fisheries [...]

The first part of Annika Palome’s review of the aftermath of the Panama Papers was posted yesterday. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat aspires for Malta to be known as a modern hub of financial services, cryptocurrencies and “the fastest growing economy in Europe”. However, Panama Papers revelations about his Chief of Staff and a government Minister [...]

It’s going to become every harder for our own government to remain silent over an increasingly hard line taken by Western countries against the penetration of Huawei technology in Europe. Malta is committed to a close partnership with Huawei and 5G technology here is being rolled out exclusively using Huawei technology. There are signs that [...]