I was reminded recently of a phrase Simon Busuttil had used once — ‘Labour-proof’ — that Labour had taken out of context and ran with as some form of sectarian divisive dogma. Of course, the intention of that phrase was to commit to what many now so often complain about when they refuse to attribute [...]
The monthly opinion polls published by Malta Today, corroborated yesterday by data published by it-Torċa, continue to confirm the consistent trend in place for over a year of a 70,000 vote gap between the PL and the PN. Although in this last survey the PN gained a little bit of ground, its leader Adrian Delia [...]
Slovenian National TV ran this in-depth feature by senior report Janko Petrovec on Malta over the weekend. Click here to link to the page showing the film. The interviews in the feature are in English. An English translation of the script follows. Slovenian journalist Janko Petrovec at the Great Siege memorial in Valletta 280219 [...]
The company supplying the notorious classroom containers is owned by the family, members of which are undergoing proceedings for the involuntary homicide of a 17-year-old employee. The containers were supplied by a company co-owned by the owners of Construct Furniture where 17-year-old Matthew Bartolo was killed in 2015. At the inquiry after that death, the [...]
Matthew Caruana Galizia wrote this article on Serbian investigative journalism website Krik, warning against the tempting panacea of EU membership and the misguided idea that it could heal all wounds and fix all structural defects with relatively painless effort. He tells his Serbian readers that Malta's experience of EU membership has also been the giving [...]
From my article of today in The Sunday Times: "This ‘legal standing’ issue has become a convenient way the government can ride roughshod over citizens’ rights. It may be inhibited by human rights law to suppress the rights of an individual, but it cannot be stopped in suppressing the rights of large numbers of people [...]
TG2's weekly news magazine yesterday ran a feature by Gabriele Lo Bello marking 500 days since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. You can watch the feature on this link. Scroll to 08:35 to start the Malta segment of the show.
Statement by Repubblika: Repubblika has submitted written recommendations to the President of Malta and the Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform on the process that should be adopted when considering and approving Constitutional changes. The recommendations include brief references to case studies of successful and failed constitutional initiatives in other countries that provide lessons that should [...]
Once again Joseph Muscat got his staff to argue with journalists, this time from El Pais, why they're justified in sweeping away candles and flowers left in protest in Valletta since Daphne Caruana Galizia's killing. "According to a spokesperson," reports El Pais, "the problem is that the candles and posters are on the monument dedicated [...]
Watch this interview, one of the best of his I have seen, that Matthew Caruana Galizia gave Spanish newspaper El Pais. https://youtu.be/l17oXkSp6pY From the newspaper report that featured this interview: "All that European attention towards Malta, the tributes to Daphne Caruana Galizia in Strasbourg where the press room of the Parliament bears her name, contrasts [...]
Defence lawyers for Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, have filed nine separate pretrial motions ahead of his trial in the US Federal Court for bank fraud and sanctions busting due later this year. The motions are intended to have the prosecution’s case against Ali Sadr dismissed before the beginning of the trial. The legal memoranda in support [...]
