The so called 2016 “equality bills”, being debated in Parliament, are in conflict with the European Union Treaty of Lisbon. In a 2016 position paper, cited by Tonio Borg in this Times of Malta article, the Church expresses concern that the transcribing of this EU Directive “will apparently be used by the Maltese government to [...]
This is the fourth part of a series of articles about the accusations Labour propagandist Karl Stagno Navarra is throwing at PN MP Karol Aquilina. Start the series here. The awesomely lissome Ian Abdilla wants to harm Karol Aquilina because Karol Aquilina is an Opposition MP. A proper one. He takes his duties as a [...]
The magisterial inquiry into the death of 12 people at sea after their dinghy was allowed to drift for several days before a rescue operation in Malta’s search and rescue area is mired in further controversy. The Shift News reported this morning that Magistrate Joe Mifsud provided Robert Abela with copies of all the evidence [...]
Photo: Rene Rossignaud Over 400 migrants imprisoned on coastal cruisers just outside Malta’s territorial waters east of Malta’s coastline may be allowed to land in Malta on 21 June. Some of them will have spent 7 weeks stuck in a watery limbo without access to legal service and in poor sanitary conditions. Tenants [...]
There’s a tribe in Vanuatu that worships Philip Mountbatten-Windsor, the Duke of Edinburgh. It’s what anthropologists call a cargo cult. The islanders' ancient legends were folded into a vague understanding of royal protocol they saw during royal visits to the archipelago in the 1950s and 1970s, then still the New Hebrides. The local chief, who [...]
This post follows on earlier two posts on the accusations being levelled by Karl Stagno Navarra against Karol Aquilina. Read them here and here first. This The Sunday Times of Malta report on an interview with Karol Aquilina brings up the story of a packet of cocaine mailed to Karol Aquilina at the PN headquarters. [...]
This post continues from this earlier post that described an innocuous traffic incident when no one was harmed and nothing was damaged a year ago. Read that post first. Karol Aquilina and Speaker Anġlu Farrugia thought they’d never again hear about a near-collision on Malta’s busy roads a year ago. After the 3 June of [...]
This country is sinking deeper into the dark horrors of corruption and authoritarian abuse of power. Air Malta’s spokesperson, Karl Stagno Navarra, who doubles as the Labour Party propagandist is serialising a concerted attack on PN MP Karol Aquilina. Under normal circumstances politicians should expect all manner of attack from their opposite number. But [...]
The following is a statement by Repubblika issued earlier today: The state's witness, Melvyn Theuma, yesterday in court gave more reasons that make one doubt how much the declarations by the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party should be believed. From yesterday’s evidence, Chris Cardona seems to be heavily implicated in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder. [...]
Petra Caruana is a Maltese woman whose life changed the day Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in 2017. She became an activist demanding justice for Daphne and campaigning against the overflowing sewers of corruption in Malta. That day in October she found her country changed. And she changed too. Petra gave this TEDx talk last [...]
The pandemic is over. That’s the mantra repeated over and over by our loquacious Prime Minister for the past weeks. Yesterday we suffered through another priedka tat-tifel press conference by the new emperor-with-no-clothes Robert Abela to drill into us that the pandemic is just a figment of our imagination and so life must return to [...]
Robert Abela can’t stop talking. And now he’s prime minister few people try to stop him. When his office announces one of his addresses to the nation is coming up people groan quietly. Before they turn on the TV, people count 7 minutes from the announced starting time because being fashionably late is now a [...]
Forget it Christian. Resigning from Parliament will not absolve all the disreputable deals and actions you did over the past six years (and maybe even before). This is not like a confession with a priest forgiving all your sins so that you can start afresh, after saying five Holy Marys. Chris Cardona you still have [...]
People who have been in politics wonder what it was all for until they can show their grandchildren their photos with the Pope, or the Queen or the Daila Lama, or a vaguely remembered US President and imagine that the fame of the people they were photographed with could rub off them in the eyes [...]
It sounds like something you’d eat in Bolzano. But it’s actually happening in Gozo. This Facebook post was put up by a senior staffer working for Gozo MP and government minister Anton Refalo. Kevin Mompalao has developed a disgust for Yorgen Fenech but it’s only really come through since the former tycoon that stands accused [...]
After 353 pages of poetry, academic texts, high school civics and near irrelevancies, the magistrate finds space for immaterial considerations in his conclusions as well. In what would have made a mediocre undergraduate dissertation, Magistrate Joe Mifsud dedicates 37 pages to discuss Malta’s policies on coronavirus, migration trends in Africa, illegal smuggling and human trafficking, [...]
Murder investigations rarely have eye-witnesses. In investigative terms those are the easy ones. Most people commit a crime – a pre-meditated, pre-planned crime – with an effort to cover their tracks. They make sure nobody sees them. They make sure they’re not caught. The tough job is proving a crime when no one saw it [...]
In the midst of all the recriminations and accusations during that horrible Easter week, Neville Gafà, the bald hangover from Keith Schembri’s glory days, spoke up and confirmed to anyone speaking to him that he was asked by Robert Abela to coordinate an illegal pushback to Libya. The prime minister told the inquiry that Neville [...]
Whatever may be the cause that starts an inquiry, if the magistrate comes across evidence of another crime they are expected not to look away. As, in any case, everyone is, always. If the crime they come across is too far removed from the subject of the inquiry and could prove a distraction, the magistrate [...]
Magistrate Joe Mifsud could have made a greater effort to assess the allegations he was asked to conduct an inquiry on. Some other posts on this subject will show how. The interests of justice are best served if everyone does their job to the best of their ability and in the case of judges as [...]