Civil rights NGO Repubblika today published a document with a raft of recommendations to fight corruption in elections, particularly the abuse of the power of incumbency by candidates who serve as ministers and the ruling party. The NGO underlined in its report existing legislation that is mostly ignored. These include rules against the use of [...]

The Transparency International survey asking a sample of 500 Maltese respondents questions about how they perceive corruption, turns up some perplexing results. Well, let me feign perplexity. It looks better than embarrassment. More than half of the respondents of the survey said they thought that it is not possible to expose corruption one is aware [...]

Edward Mallia sent the following as a comment under my post on Robert Abela's statement about wanting the environment to be his most important pillar to make Malta "the best in the world". I commented in my post that just as the prime minister was speaking about Malta's environment being made world-best within 10 years, [...]

Watch this video on Owen Bonnici’s Facebook page. This fuss fest would have made Leni Riefenstahl proud. And it likely cost a pretty penny. It obviously also made TVM headlines. The national broadcaster reported this “news” breathlessly pushing up the bar to a point where it will be very hard for them to emphasise enough [...]

As elections approach anything becomes news, as long as Ministers get their time on TV and their face in the papers. The set up for Aaron Farrugia’s press conference in Ħaż-Żebbuġ suggested he was going to announce a space mission (more on that in a separate post). The big announcement? The Local Council is going [...]