Mario Cutajar responded to a speech Jason Azzopardi gave in Parliament yesterday where the MP alleged collusion between the civil service chief an the guy who headed the police force around 2013 to intimidate a senior civil servant into resigning. Cutajar's statement is 8 paragraphs long. Seven and a half paragraphs do not address the [...]
Updated 5 March 2o21, 12:35 There’s something disturbing in the government’s attitude to the pandemic. Unless you own a bar or operate a club that depends on the rental of a bar, there are no material ‘restrictions’ to ordinary life in spite of ever-growing numbers of infected. The tourism industry is on its knees. But [...]
Repubblika, #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com notify that the protest announced for tomorrow Monday, 1 March 2021 at 5 pm in front of Parliament has been called after we notified the Police and in compliance with the requirements and guidelines from the health authorities. We ask anyone feeling unwell to stay at home. We remind all protesters [...]
In between Robert Abela’s macabre murmurings that the institutions are working, a phrase he’s repeated ad nauseum since he began his reign of continuity just over a year ago, let’s not sweep Nuxellina under the table in a brown paper bag. Just because she’s (conditionally) resigned as Parliamentary Secretary for Reforms (pending an investigation) doesn’t [...]
This morning's Sunday Times editorial sums up why people are angry at the government in the week the government felt entitled to the people's applause for developments in the Daphne Caruana Galizia case. "(Robert) Abela must stop repeating the mantra that the rule of law prevails and that the institutions are working. The rule of law [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "That’s two state witnesses, relied upon by the prosecution to say the truth, pointing at Cardona. "You’d think they’re hard to ignore. "Is this 'judicial truth'? Perhaps not. However, we must be assured someone, somewhere is trying to find it. "It doesn’t help us believe that when [...]
I feature on cartoons on two Sunday newspapers today. On KullĦadd I make the leader of the nationalist party follow his predecessor on the plank. On Illum I bring Robert Abela to his knees. I feel I should be saying something smart now but I'm sorry, I have nothing.
Campaigners who want national policy to allow migrants to drown at sea and to officially discriminate against black people gathered in Valletta today in furtherance of their cause. All 3 of them. I am not going to indulge them by telling you what they said. You can imagine that, though you should have liked not [...]
The Government Gazette says today that Ian Abdilla, the senior police officer who sipped coffee while Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad whisked the evidence out of Pilatus Bank, is to get a medal for service to the nation. Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed in the line of duty, has not yet been recognised by the State, although [...]
Judge Edwina Grima confirmed on appeal a suspended prison sentence handed down by a lower court against two men who shoddily built a wall in a Swieqi property that collapsed over a 19-year-old man, killing him on the spot. Some weeks ago, this website recalled the story of Quentin Michel, a student killed in Malta [...]
On TVM last Wednesday lawyers Manuel Mallia and Robert Musumeci had a lesson for me. If I’m serious about the ‘rule of law’, then certainly I can’t expect that people are punished according to my instincts or emotions. Everyone, whatever they’ve done, is entitled to due process and punishment is only handed down after judicial [...]
Jason Micallef posted on Facebook an assault on our call for a protest on Monday. We called a protest, mind you. In a square. Which is pedestrianised. We didn’t call for disruption to traffic, or for throwing Molotov cocktails, or for the violent overthrow of government, or for whatever would fit your definition of extreme. [...]
Repubblika, #occupyjustice and this website are calling the public to join in our protest on Monday 1 March at 5pm in front of Parliament House. We must renew our demands for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia, her family and the entire country. It makes us indeed very angry to see Prime Minister Robert Abela rush [...]
Lovin Malta reports that a bunch of rabid racists has been given a permit to protest today in Valletta. Freedom of speech, and all that. They want to remind Parliament of their petition calling for people to be allowed to drown in our sea, because you know, they're black. I had written some time ago [...]
Rosianne Cutajar told the prime minister she was “offering her resignation pending the process” of the investigation into her allegedly unethical conduct by the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life. There is no way a minister can qualify their resignation as temporary. When one resigns, they have resigned. End of. It is then entirely in [...]
Her departure from government is long overdue. She is trying to present her resignation today as temporary . She says she'll clear her name and since Robert Abela has not gone as far as firing her, there might be something in that plan. She's already started her campaigning for her return to government. Here she [...]
L-Erbgħa fost il-Ġimgħa last night had a manel (that's a panel composed entirely of men who in this case met to perorate about a woman) discussing the current state of play in the criminal proceedings against the killers of Daphne Caruana Galizia. I was part of the manel, so I find myself having to apologise [...]
Five days ago, five men were apprehended by the police coming up the road from Wied iż-Żurrieq. They had entered the fishing harbour apparently on their own steam or whatever it was their boat was powered bybecause apparently, though they looked for it, the police and the army never found the vessel the migrants got [...]
The World is along established public radio journalism program broadcast out of studios in Boston providing world news stories for US audiences often missed by commercial radio. They interviewed me last night about events in Malta this week. Listen to it here.
