Robert Aquilina is seen here walking back out of the Labour Party headquarters where he delivered a letter to the party’s President demanding Joseph Muscat is fired from the party and politicians identified by the inquiry for responsibility for the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia to be withdrawn from politics altogether. If looks could kill, [...]
Adrian Delia couldn't be arsed to read the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry report. There are a few references to him that should disqualify him from public life. But that's a discussion for another time. As ever he reacts to bad news with hysterical accusations of having been lied about. The report is public so there [...]
The Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry speaks of “a level of organised crime that involves people who are not themselves criminals, that are busy with legitimate businesses or work in the public administration and politics and who work in tandem with criminals for illicit or illegal gains. If proven,” the Board goes on to say, “the [...]
Edward Zammit Lewis has become an easy target, not that he was a tough one, to begin with, of endless jokes at his expense. Jason Azzopardi had already hinted some time ago that one government Minister had confided in Yorgen Fenech, the man accused of killing a journalist, that he thought his own supporters were [...]
The Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry expresses its frustration that too often public officials missed what should have been obvious to them. If they hadn’t done so, this would be a very different country and Daphne would still be alive. The inquiry report points its fingers at the chief of police and the chief of the [...]
Robert Aquilina, Repubblika’s President, yesterday drew several significant points from the public inquiry findings. There was one point he highlighted which hasn’t otherwise been emphasised enough, certainly not by Malta’s President and Prime Minister: Daphne is a hero. This is one section of the inquiry that requires highlighting because justice for Daphne starts with the [...]
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There are many lessons to be learned from the conclusions of the Daphne Inquiry. One is that we should consider whether the EU or the Council of Europe needs to set up a formal process by which one of them can monitor the conduct of public inquiries in member states. The monitors could be appointed [...]
Malta’s President said today he thinks the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry report should start the healing. He parrots Robert Abela’s line from yesterday. Government MPs this morning said they hadn’t bothered to read the report. They couldn’t feel mortification if it was mixed with venom in the fangs of a snake that bit them in [...]
Photo: Miguela Xuereb (Newsbook). With permission. Some friends and I this morning approached the Parliament building to ask to be allowed to follow from the Stranger’s Gallery the debate about the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry report. We did not seriously expect to be allowed in. Yesterday we wrote to the Speaker to ask [...]
The Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry report is perfectly clear that it stopped collecting evidence of corruption and bad governance during the Joseph Muscat years when it felt it had more than enough to reach the conclusions it was required to examine in its terms of reference. But, the inquiry also said, there’s more. There are [...]
Watch Malta’s institutions make sure everyone understands they are ignoring what the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry said about them. Consider TVM, the national broadcaster. The inquiry yesterday proposed in one of its recommendations that the Constitutional provisions on the Broadcasting Authority are changed because they are ineffective as they are. The reason they give for [...]
There’s a lot of fascinating detail in the inquiry report beneath the earth-shattering headlines about the State’s responsibility in the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Here’s an interesting point. The inquiry board was faced by refusals from Joseph Muscat and other former and present ministers in his governments refusing to answer questions or provide information [...]
The Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry board has concluded that Daphne was killed because of her work as a journalist. It found that Cabinet Members share responsibility for failing to act when the Panama Papers came out. It said the State must now recognise its failures of omission and commission with respect to the killing of [...]
As expected, the inquiry report is a treasure trove of recommendations, a blueprint for a raft of reforms, many of which civil society has been clamouring for, for some time, and some that clearly reflect the inquiry’s cool reflections during its months of activities. Some highlights in brief: The authorities must investigate the murder of [...]
Repubblika, #occupyjustice, and manueldelia.com are calling for a protest in Castille Place tonight from 19:00. The report of the independent inquiry into the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia confirms that: The State must shoulder responsibility for the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. There has been an extensive culture of impunity for high officials of the [...]
In brief, the inquiry set up to look into the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia found that: The State must shoulder responsibility for the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. There has been an extensive culture of impunity for high officials of the public administration, persons of trust, and a limited circle of politicians, business people, [...]
The Board of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Inquiry found "collective responsibility of the members of Cabinet that failed to act appropriately" after the publication of findings about the Panama Papers and 17 Black. "Though some might absolve the Cabinet for failing to act in a timely fashion against the Chief of Staff (Keith Schembri) when [...]
The Independent Inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia says that "the State must shoulder responsibility for the assassination because the State created an atmosphere of impunity, generated by the highest levels at the heart of the administration in Castille. The impunity spread like an octopus to regulatory institutions and the Police. This led [...]
Prime Minister Robert Abela told the country this morning he’ll be publishing the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry report today and wants it debated in Parliament tomorrow. No one’s seen it yet. It follows almost 20 months of witnesses and documentation so it’s not likely to be a lightweight document. The haste appears a bit unseemly [...]