Byron Camilleri fired Lawrence Cutajar after we learnt that “il-kbir ta’ Ħal Luqa”, as Melvyn Theuma described him in court today, provided a traffic-fine cancelling service from his desk at police headquarters while undermining his investigative officers by warning criminals to expect their imminent arrest. Lawrence Cutajar had his resignation as police chief accepted by [...]
The usual bullies are all over Facebook warning people not to even dare to think about fresh protests in Valletta. The fascists are unhappy activists called people to join them in Valletta to remember Lassana Cisse, our own black man killed by trigger happy uniformed officers. We’re still waiting for justice for Lassana and the [...]
The process of choosing a new Police Commissioner is now more complicated than it used to be. But it is no less predictable. The choice of Angelo Gafà was a given even with the side-shows of a wife-beating ex-policeman who resigned in disgraced just a few months ago thrown in. This is a country for [...]
Malta and four other Mediterranean countries have asked the EU to take care of the redistribution of asylum seekers and to manage directly repatriation of migrants to their country of origin. The request was revealed by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this morning that said that Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Malta wrote a letter [...]
Chris Cardona has earlier this week been interviewed by Ivan Martin of The Times. I do not know if he paid for the interview as it is clear that the newspaper is trying to give the corrupt Deputy Leader of the Labour Party a helping hand. Now if there is a person in Malta who [...]
The American Press Institute says that the purpose of journalism is to provide citizens (readers) with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and – the most relevant to Malta, in the context of this article – their governments. Lately journalists seem to feel under [...]
US-based banking analyst and blogger Kenneth Rijock singled out Pilatus non-executive director Armin Eckermann and remarks Rijock says Eckermann made publicly that suggest that the Malta-based German non-executive director of Pilatus is confident Maltese authorities will never seek to get to the bottom of what happened at Pilatus Bank. Kenneth Rijock's full article is linked [...]
Anġlu Farrugia held a grudge for 6 months. He waited until Saturday to use a public event to reprimand protesters who last December shouted loud enough outside his penthouse office at the entrance to Valletta to force Joseph Muscat out of office. He complained about eggs being thrown. Eggs, mind you. Not Molotov cocktails or [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Omar, Mogos, Hzqiel, Hdru, Huruy, Teklay, Nohom, Kidus, Debesay, and three men named Filmon all died of thirst, starvation or drowning in Maltese waters. "Eleven of the men were Christians. Survivors identified “their brother Omar” as Muslim. They were aged 18 to 25. Some of them had [...]
Photo taken in on the Isla waterfront.
A statement announced this evening the Maltese government was not willing to endanger the lives of crew members and Maltese employees working with migrants it ordered imprisoned outside Malta’s territorial waters. For this reason, Robert Abela’s government has climbed down from its insistence that more than 400 migrants would not be allowed to land on [...]
Sent in by someone known to me. However odd is the decision by the US Attorney’s request to the New York federal court to drop the case against Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad on five counts for money laundering, etc., there are no reasons why investigations should be abandoned in Malta against him and other perpetrators, [...]
Look at this. Robert Abela did not understand what the white dot on the floor stands for. It's so you don't stay within two metres of the Speaker you dimwit. Have you heard of social distancing? And this photo, that reassures us the opposition is keeping the government in constant check. Have you guys thought [...]
The lawyer representing Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad in his trial for bank fraud and for busting sanctions against his native Iran told Bloomberg this morning “he and his client aren’t sure why the government brought the ‘extraordinary motion’ to drop the case.” Reid Weingarten Photo: Getty Reid Weingarten said “we hope they finally saw [...]
In a surprising twist of events, the US Attorney has asked the federal court in New York to drop the case against Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad after he was convicted on March 16 of 5 counts of bank fraud and sanctions busting that could have landed him a prison sentence of up to 85 years. [...]
When she was ruling on il-Koħħu’s request for bail, the trial judge of Daphne’s alleged assassins remarked that “it is evident that the criminal network involved (in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder) has not been completely restrained and there are still people involved in commissioning the crime that have not yet been called to give account [...]
Practically nothing has changed since 12 January 2020. Joseph Muscat has lost his Castille office to his protégé Robert Abela. He resigned in shame as the most corrupt person for 2019. There really was no contest and Chris Fearne never had a chance. Robert Abela was Joseph’s anointed one. He was the chosen one for [...]
The possible involvement of Chris Cardona in the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia came to the public’s attention yet again after answers given by the state’s witness Melvyn Theuma to questions made to him in court. Jason Azzopardi, who is in court representing parte civile the family of Daphne Caruana Galizia, asked Melvyn Theuma on [...]
Italian newspaper Avvenire has criticised the inquiry by Magistrate Joe Mifsud into the Easter Massacre when 12 people died at sea days after they reported they were stranded insight Malta’s search and rescue area. The newspaper, in a report by Nello Scavo, is also critical of Italian authorities that refused to provide details that could [...]
Who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia? We’ve been asking this question since her brutal assassination on the 16th October 2017. We’ve been asking this question since Joseph Muscat, King of Organised Crime and Corruption, nefariously promised to ‘leave no stone unturned’. We’ve been asking this question while all the evidence has continually been pointing at Castille. [...]