A socially-distanced vigil is being broadcast right now from Great Siege Square in Valletta marking 38 months since the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Proceedings opened with a brief speech by Repubblika's president, Robert Aquilina, and a stark warning to Prime Minister Robert Abela. Robert Aquilina said that as was expected, the NGO did not [...]

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This article is a continuation of my previous analysis of Vitals Global Healthcare which was registered on 13 May 2015, and which, on 30 November 2015 signed the services concession agreement with the Government for the redevelopment, maintenance, management and operation of the sites of St Luke’s Hospital, Karin Grech Rehabilitation Hospital and the Gozo [...]

‘Irrelevant!?’ - How insensitive! What a morbid, dark, evil sense of humour! 16th October 2017 – 2.35 p.m. - ‘There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.’ - 25 minutes later Daphne Caruana Galizia is assassinated. I wonder how many of us had ever imagined how prophetic her incisive last piece of conversation [...]

Manuel Delia · Robert Abela is a self-fulfilling prophecy When Robert Abela’s predecessor lost all control of circumstances and authority over events, he signed the document he had been rejecting for two years: setting up an inquiry to determine whether the state, including of course the government he had been leading, was at least in [...]