Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers protested with the judges hearing the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry saying thejudges are doing away with the principle of “listening to the other side”. They said it in Latin, as if when it’s loudly sung and in a foreign tongue it would make more sense. Audi alteram partem … let the other [...]

Silvio Valletta thought that if an excuse works for Joseph Muscat, he’d be damned if he wasn’t going to use it as well. Didn’t Silvio Valletta feel it was inappropriate to refuse the hospitality of Yorgen Fenech, accept his frequent invitations to visit his “ranch” and travel with him to international football matches? Silvio Valletta’s response [...]

Italian publisher Mondadori has published today the Italian edition of Murder on the Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia first published in the original English in Malta by Midsea Books in October 2019 and released worldwide by Silvertail Books in December 2019. The Italian title of the book is "Un Omicidio di Stato", 'A [...]

A few days ago, I wrote about the false economies of trying to keep the justice system cost-effective by crushing its efficiency. Governments insist no more judges are needed and the justice system would work better if judges listened to cases for longer hours in the day instead of spending their afternoons doing what it [...]

The revelations by PN MP Jason Azzopardi and the follow up reports in the press about the alleged involvement of sitting and former Labour politicians in crimes, would, in ordinary times, in ordinary countries, start a frenzied demand from the public to know what the prime minister is doing to distance himself from crooks and [...]

Ryan Mercieca, who contested the 2017 elections on the PN ticket, told this website he was still considering running for the seat vacated by the death of Frederick Azzopardi. But if he decided to run, he would be doing so without the blessing of the party that put him forward for election three years ago. [...]