Joseph Muscat’s corrupt regime bound crooks together with the cement of mutual blackmail. It was strong like a fasces, seemingly indestructible. But we held out hope that if we were there when a crack appears, it would all come tumbling down. It seems it fell to a dog from the K9 unit, an un-compromised, uncompromising [...]
Italian journalist Sandro Ruotolo who is in Malta as a representative of the Italian union of journalists has posted on Facebook his experience yesterday night outside and insight the office of Malta's prime minister. This is my translation: "Malta is under shock. During the night Keith Schembri, former chief of staff to the prime minister, [...]
The Malta Employers Association has asked the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (the forum for employers' bodies, labour unions and the government) to suspend its agenda to discuss the present political situation. "The Malta Employers’ Association is formally requesting to suspend the normal agenda of the MCESD to call an urgent meeting to [...]
Judge Edwina Grima today quashed an appeal by three government ministers (one of them since resigned) that attempted to throw out a magistrate's order for a criminal inquiry into their conduct when three public hospitals were sold to shady interests. Edward Scicluna, Chris Cardona and Konrad Mizzi have now exhausted all legal vehicles to seek [...]
The Italian Federation of the Italian Press (FNSI) has dispatched a delegation of two award-winning Italian journalists – Paolo Borrometi and Sandro Rutolo – that are in Malta to participate in civil society actions demanding truth and justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia. Paolo Borrometi and Sandro Ruotolo brought a message from Beppe Giulietti, president of [...]
The Times of Malta's editorial makes a strong and succinct case why the position of the prime minister is untenable. Do please read it. But then it proceeds to conclude with an explicit call to action: "In such circumstances, to say that he must resign is to miss the point. Yes, Muscat must go. But [...]
Leading German newspaper Die Welt had a damning verdict of what is going in Malta right now: "Malta is a mafia state, as the past few days have shown. That is a shame for Europe. It is now up to the EU institutions, which for too long ignored the flaws in the rule of law and the [...]
The UK Times leading editorial this morning is about Malta. Of course. It concludes as follows: "Mr Muscat insists that this is no reason to question the independence of the investigation, which he says he is confident will solve the murder. He also insists that there will be no immunity for anyone implicated in the [...]
The video is by Monique Agius of Newsbook one of the many journalists allowed into Castille at 3am this morning only to be faced by a curt prime minister answering four questions when 4,000 are overdue. To avoid the inconvenience of actually facing them properly, ministers walked out of the Ambassadors' Room while journalists were [...]
In an interview with TVM earlier tonight James Debono said we should be careful not to rely on what someone facing life in prison is telling us to try to save their neck. Anything Yorgen Fenech says about any possible masterminds higher up or even co-conspirators must be taken in the context of why it [...]
Matthew Caruana Galizia with protesters in Castille Square as the "urgent" Cabinet meeting now enters its fifth hour.
They've been at it 4.5 hours. It's reasonable to suspect they're not agreeing. Send a text message to Chris Fearne and remind him it falls on him to do the right thing. Tell him "Deputy Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat must go. He needs to know. You need to tell him. Get busy." His number is [...]