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Now that the Blockchain related laws are in effect, and our vision in making Malta the Blockchain Island is materializing, we can start looking at new economic niches, finding ways to incorporate them in our ecosystem. We want Malta to become a powerhouse of economic innovation. – Silvio Schembri, July 2018 Blockchain is the technology [...]

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 [...]

The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) as part of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) has condemned today’s court ruling in the criminal proceedings against Neville Gafà for threats he made on Twitter against Italian journalist Nello Scavo. “We take note of this verdict,” commented Scavo. “This case has given me an [...]

In an earlier post, I wrote about Keith Schembri declaring himself governed by the ethics of a tax avoider and applying that as a justification, as he sees it, for his conduct in public office. That wasn’t the worst bit of the character evidence he gave on his own behalf yesterday at the Daphne inquiry. [...]

There’s more to take out of Keith Schembri’s testimony yesterday. None of this is necessarily new as such. And these specific observations may not make an enormous difference to the inquiry’s search for any share the state may have had in allowing Daphne to be killed. But Keith Schembri’s testimony is also an eye-witness account [...]

Let’s see how Magistrate Charmaine Galea feels about this. “You better stop your dirty business. If not, we will be stopping you.” In case of doubt, ‘you’ is ‘you, Magistrate Charmaine Galea’. Do you feel threatened, ma’am? Or do you think that given the way you have expressed yourself, I have a sacred right to [...]

Here’s another take-away from yesterday’s testimony by Keith Schembri to the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry. Keith Schembri recalls the time when he had been diagnosed with cancer. He emailed his resignation from the post of PM’s chief of staff. “I had cancer,” he told the inquiry yesterday. “If it were for me I would have [...]

The Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry Board reminded the prime minister that only they can decide when they’ve heard enough evidence to fulfil their terms of reference. In a decree by Board Chairman Judge Michael Mallia, the Board responded to repeated calls by Prime Minister Robert Abela to shut down the inquiry by tomorrow because, the [...]

  In a moment of flagrant disloyalty to his “friend” and former boss Joseph Muscat, Keith Schembri told Jason Azzopardi at the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry this morning, that he knew the 2017 election would be held in June by March. Just because he said that I’m not going to dismount from my suspicions that [...]

Ever so often this keeps coming up. Keith Schembri, whose testimony is to be taken with extreme caution, said something about someone today, we’ve often heard before. This is the exchange with Therese Comodini Cachia as reported on Times of Malta: 'Lobbying' journalists  3.02pm Schembri is asked about meeting with journalists. He says some were closer [...]

Do you remember the mantra ‘Malta tagħna lkoll’? It was the positive slogan to represent Labour’s pre-2013 key campaign message that the country was being run by a clique, an establishment, an elite of blue-eyed and blue-voting cronies, that you needed to be a ‘baron’ or a ‘friend of a friend’ to get ahead in [...]

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly, are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged. - Franklin D. Roosevelt The Malta Labour Party, today Partit Laburista, has a long history of aggression against the free media. This goes [...]