That Silvio Schembri is an over-promoted, unfit for purpose, serial repeating bugler of the Brigata Laburista, utterly bereft of compassion and with the experience of real life of a dynastic monarch crowned in his mother’s womb, is not something we have discovered today. The detail that he is a bigoted, racist shit may be new [...]
A notice to airmen issued by the Maltese government says that all commercial passenger flights coming into Malta after midnight of the night between Friday and Saturday coming are "suspended". The order is for a month up to 20 April 2020. The notice is "based on a decision taken by the Malta health authorities". Flights [...]
The realisation is dawning on more and more people that the coronavirus crisis is not going to be a drawn-out weekend with a critical stock of toilet paper. Nor it is just an early summer break for the kids. We are looking at something that is going to stretch for months and that is going [...]
Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was a pillar in Joseph Muscat’s and Keith Schembri’s corrupt game plan that they rolled out in 2013 when they first came to power. Ali Sadr filed an application to open a Maltese bank a few months after Labour came to power. He was granted the license a short number of [...]
A United States jury four Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad orchestrated a multi-year scheme to funnel more than US$115 million in payments related to a construction project in Venezuela through the US financial system to his Iranian family business, in violation of US. sanctions against Iran. In a two-week trial the US government established that these [...]
A United States jury has found Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad guilty of 5 counts of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, defrauding the United States and busting sanctions against Iran. He was not convicted on the 6th count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The verdict concerns charges related to a US$115 million scheme [...]
A juror in the US trial of Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad is participating in deliberations on line while he’s confined to his home. Coronavirus caused havoc in the trial of Ali Sadr in its very final stage today as he awaits the jury’s verdict in the case against him for bank fraud and busting sanctions [...]
The only way I know of fighting writer’s block is writing. Don’t worry. I only really ramble when I have something to say and I’m looking for the right words to say it. But on a Monday morning that feels like a fourth Sunday in a row a blank white digital sheet on my computer [...]
Orders issued by the superintendent of public health to suspend time limits in the law on current and future court proceedings may be beyond her power and as such therefore illegal, experts on court procedures told this website. This could mean that allowing timelines established in the law to expire because of the ongoing coronavirus [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Coronavirus will do more than infect the exposed and kill the vulnerable. It will test us for pliancy and it will cripple us where it finds us wanting. "It will find the limits of our resources to handle a medical crisis. It will push on the limits [...]
So now we have it. The question whether to lock down or not to lock down has become a policy distinction between the two-party political leaders. This is hardly what we need in a time of crisis, is it? I don’t blame the opposition leader for this. His team has repeatedly asked the government to [...]
Repubblika yesterday called for an investigation into suspicions Assistant Police Commissioner Ian Abdilla helped suspects dodge justice. The NGO also asked for his immediate dismissal. Ian Abdilla’s testimony in court showed he was part of the corruption, inefficiency and the police leadership’s cooperation with criminals that has emerged to public awareness in recent months. Whether [...]
The Chamber of Advocates expressed frustration at the government's decision to delay ordering the closure of court business in spite of the risks of contagion from the coronavirus. The Chamber took the matter in its own hands ordering lawyers not to show in court until further notice. The only exception is attendance in inevitable situations. [...]
The jury in a New York federal court has received instructions from Judge Alison Nathan and is currently considering a verdict in the bank fraud and sanctions busting case against Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad. The case has been tried in New York over the last few days. The merits of the case concern allegations that [...]
The Medical School at the Mater Dei campus has been evacuated and the space is being cleared out to be converted into emergency wards as a backup for expected influx because of the coronavirus crisis. More soon.
Independent school San Anton in Mġarr informed parents today that it will close down for two weeks starting Monday as a preventative measure against novel coronavirus. In a letter to parents the school administration recognised that parents are "increasingly reluctant to send their children to school, resulting in dwindling attendance records and significant difficulty for [...]
It’s becoming clearer that the government needs to order urgently, immediately even, a proper ban on people congregating. Schools, bars, restaurants, churches remain in business now and this no longer seems wise. No doubt the government is always wary to act in a way that stops the economy. Even shutting down schools has a wider [...]
The appointment of Alex Dalli to the directorship of the prison has introduced an element that is strongly discouraged by worldwide experts on prison administration. Alex Dalli is a retired colonel in the army and experts recommend that prisons are run by civilians not members or former members of disciplinary forces. His rule which will [...]
Sent in by someone known to me: Salarino: Why, I am sure. If he forfeit then wilt not take his flesh. What’s that good for? Shylock: To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He has disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, [...]
