UPDATED: Darren Debono, alleged fuel smuggling king, in custody

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2020-11-26T11:13:24+01:00Tue, 24th Nov '20, 12:04|

Updated 26 November 2020, 08:39: Adds Kolmar's Right of Reply statement Darren Debono was arraigned last night at the magistrate’s court charged with money laundering. He has been remanded in custody. The former local football star has been living in Malta since November 2018 after he was released pending a retrial for fuel smuggling in [...]

Hurry Up and Kill Her (Part 4)

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2020-11-19T14:36:55+01:00Mon, 23rd Nov '20, 17:00|

The following is the fourth part of a series first published in Italian as a concluding chapter of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Un Omicidio di Stato (Strade Blu Mondadori, 2020), the Italian edition of Murder on the Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia(MidSea Books, 2019 and Silvertail Books, 2019). Hurry Up and Kill Her (Part 4) Thousands now [...]

Slaughter of the imbeciles

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2020-11-23T09:35:31+01:00Mon, 23rd Nov '20, 09:35|

Robert Abela's reshuffle last weekend was a bit like the end of a football season. There's drama at the top as Miriam Dalli and Clyde Caruana were brought in to jump over the heads of all the Joseph Muscat veterans. But the real fun is in the relegation space at the bottom of the league [...]

GUEST POST: The mulberry bush

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2020-11-23T08:52:26+01:00Mon, 23rd Nov '20, 08:52|

Dawra durella Qabża żigarella Ċoff tal-bellus Ċaqċaqielu lill-għarus. Axxa, axxa, Missieru mastrudaxxa Ma’ rasu għandu faxxa. Issa kulħadd jitbaxxa. Dawra Durella is a Maltese rhyme which children used to sing whilst dancing in a revolving circle. When the rhyme came to an end they all sat down. It was very popular years ago when cars [...]

Hurry Up and Kill Her (Part 3)

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2020-11-19T14:37:04+01:00Sun, 22nd Nov '20, 17:00|

The following is the third part of a series first published in Italian as a concluding chapter of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Un Omicidio di Stato (Strade Blu Mondadori, 2020), the Italian edition of Murder on the Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia(MidSea Books, 2019 and Silvertail Books, 2019). Hurry Up and Kill Her (Part 3) Keith Schembri [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Robert Abela’s silver spoon

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2020-11-22T07:58:09+01:00Sun, 22nd Nov '20, 07:57|

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Being a lawyer can be lucrative but most lawyers will probably agree this level of income from providing legal services is eye-wateringly impressive. "His parents are still alive so he hasn’t inherited. Neither has his wife, who is a year younger than him, has four other siblings and [...]

Hurry Up and Kill Her (Part 2)

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2020-11-19T14:37:13+01:00Sat, 21st Nov '20, 17:00|

The following is the second part of a series first published in Italian as a concluding chapter of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Un Omicidio di Stato (Strade Blu Mondadori, 2020), the Italian edition of Murder on the Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia(MidSea Books, 2019 and Silvertail Books, 2019). Hurry Up and Kill Her (Part 2) In prison, [...]

Hurry Up and Kill Her (Part 1)

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2020-11-24T07:49:02+01:00Fri, 20th Nov '20, 17:00|

The following is the first part of a series first published in Italian as a concluding chapter of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Un Omicidio di Stato (Strade Blu Mondadori, 2020), the Italian edition of Murder on the Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia(MidSea Books, 2019 and Silvertail Books, 2019). Hurry Up and Kill Her Wednesday, November 20, [...]

Dalli. Mercieca. Fenech.

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2020-11-20T22:39:08+01:00Fri, 20th Nov '20, 14:34|

The government’s insistence on retaining that delusional clown Alexander Dalli as prison boss is, frankly, unbelievably obtuse even by the aphotic standards of this government of the night. This week he was in the news for the wrong reasons. The right reason for him to have been in the news should have been the fact [...]

GUEST POST: Scruples, or the lack of

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2020-11-20T13:33:32+01:00Fri, 20th Nov '20, 13:33|

The dictionary definition of ‘scruples’ is having a kind of moral compass that lets you know what’s right. Often it is used in an outraged way when someone does something bad. Liars, thieves, criminals and politicians have fewer scruples than the rest of us. The idea of scruples has to do with ethics and morality, [...]

IĠM’s take on acquittal of Castille bullies

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2020-11-20T12:57:39+01:00Fri, 20th Nov '20, 12:57|

The Institute of Maltese Journalists had a different assessment from mine about how the acquittal of three thugs that locked journalists inside a room in Castille in November last year came about. Since I do not hold the monopoly on truth, it would be good to consider this alternative perspective. IĠM are closer to the [...]

Miracle workers

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2020-11-20T10:58:19+01:00Fri, 20th Nov '20, 10:58|

The UĦM proudly announced they have secured equal pay for the work being done by health workers engaged by Stewart Health Care and VGH at three formerly-public hospitals, working alongside and doing the same work as the public sector employees working at the same hospitals. It’s the union’s job to fight the turf of its [...]

Institutionalised contempt

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2020-11-20T10:23:13+01:00Fri, 20th Nov '20, 10:23|

It just never ends. This government is fundamentally indifferent to the way the world sees us. We’re already in shit with the European Central Bank for a number of reasons. We had two banks licensed since 2013 shut down for pervasive money laundering. Our status as a white-listed and compliant financial jurisdiction is in serious [...]

Do not let the Castille thugs get away with this

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2020-11-19T16:55:54+01:00Thu, 19th Nov '20, 15:08|

The police prosecuted three thugs who in November last year blocked dozens of journalists in the Ambassadors' Room of Castille, preventing them from doing the job the world expected them to: ask tough questions to Joseph Muscat. That night the country rightly expected him to resign. The press waited outside Castille since about noon that [...]

Joe Mifsud strikes again

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2020-11-19T12:49:39+01:00Thu, 19th Nov '20, 12:49|

Three men were charged with unlawfully detaining journalists that night of 29 November when cabinet met until 3 am and journalists were then allowed in to hear Joseph Muscat say it took cabinet 7 hours to decide to deny Yorgen Fenech his request for immunity to turn state’s evidence. While testifying one of the journalists, [...]

An extra chapter

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2020-11-19T11:54:17+01:00Thu, 19th Nov '20, 11:54|

Carlo Bonini, John Sweeney and I first published our book Murder on the Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia? on 14 October 2019. That was a few days before Yorgen Fenech was arrested and the story we had been telling turned towards some form of extended denouement. That first edition was published by the [...]

Immune VIPs

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2020-11-18T14:20:25+01:00Wed, 18th Nov '20, 14:17|

The "Guidelines for the Return to Sport as part of the COVID-19 transition in Malta" currently in force say that no spectators are to be allowed in sports venues. The rules say that "a closed-door policy must be observed at all time - spectators are not allowed - for both training and competitions. Access to [...]

The pestilence of fake news

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2020-11-18T10:44:58+01:00Wed, 18th Nov '20, 10:44|

Yesterday we set up 100 chairs in Castille Square, put flowers on them, and recalled the deaths of Covid victims. We criticised the government's policy on the subject and when Robert Abela emerged from his office he got some catcalls by people who don't approve of him. This was reported in the media. It was [...]

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