Today’s decision by the Constitutional Court confirming the denial of bail to the Degiorgio brothers is very, very important. There’s the obvious importance of keeping the Degiorgios in detention. They are awaiting trial for killing a journalist, in and of itself an assault on the very basis of democracy. They were part of a wider [...]

This happens all the time but the mistake is mine for not pointing it out each time. It is important to note how One TV reports and comments on a civil society protest because One TV is the TV station owned, controlled, operated, and that speaks for the ruling party. This is the reaction of [...]

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You know that when you go outside the office of the police to demand they act on 5-year old evidence that a former government minister set himself up for bribes, some people are going to be annoyed. You know that some of those people are going to feel free to go on Facebook and find [...]

What’s more likely, that no fraud is reported in connection with EU funds spent by Malta because we are the only crime-free country in the world or because we are so deep in shit that we don’t smell it anymore? The remarks by EU prosecutor Laura Kovesi are so remarkably on point. Maltese law enforcement [...]

Image: The Guardian This morning’s Times of Malta headline “European Parliament suggests taxing golden passports” might at first glance suggest that the European Parliament has changed its position about passport-selling schemes. The European Parliament’s position on passport-selling was adopted by a resolution that calls on the schemes to stop. For the Parliament to [...]

This is a statement issued by #occupyjustice this morning: Once again, the Labour Party has chosen to support and protect the corrupt. This is no surprise, of course and not the first time this has happened. They defended and protected Joseph Muscat, and still do; they defended and protected Keith Schembri and still do, they [...]

Photo: Jonathan Borg The government has no published rules and no independent oversight of its advertising and PR spending. Many other countries have rules that prevent ministers from spending public money on partisan propaganda. Any government is obliged to inform the public of what it's doing. There needs to be money to inform [...]

Too often we find ourselves complaining about the chilling indifference of many, and the outright hatred of some, and how the hateful conduct of the worst among us reflects on all of us. Racial hatred in this country is a glaring reality. Discrimination is both cultural and official. The dehumanisation of Africans is widespread and [...]

Repubblika activists stirred from a rainy night this morning outside police headquarters in Floriana, 12 hours into their 72-hour sit-in calling for action by the police in cases of corruption, particularly the case of Konrad Mizzi who has faced no criminal action in spite of being exposed in the Panama Papers back in 2016. Repubblika [...]

Repubblika activists led by the organisation's President and Deputy Robert Aquilina and Alessandra Dee Crespo are settling down for the first of three nights and three days of protest outside police headquarters. They are calling on the police to terminate the impunity from any consequences of well-documented corruption that continues to be enjoyed by Konrad [...]

Mark Camilleri is bringing up bits of his book to have daily squabbles with Labour false gods on whose clay feet he takes pleasure in pissing. The worst kept secret in Maltese society over the last two years was that Rosianne Cutajar was very close to Yorgen Fenech and if any clothes were involved it [...]

Four years ago today, about 100 women stood on the steps of Castille protesting the evident indifference, if not hostility, of the country’s institutions ten days after Daphne Caruana Galizia had been killed. They would tag their protest on social media #occupyjustice. Daphne’s assassination happened on a Monday. A week later Parliament was due to [...]

Senior CEOs of gaming companies based in Malta warned that if the country remains grey-listed by the FATF, auditors and bankers "will make it impossible to do business in Malta". The warning was sounded at one of the panel discussions at the iGaming Next 21 conference held in Valletta last week. CEOs of a number [...]

A survey shows that around 5,000 school children do not have laptops to follow online lessons. These children will have missed most of their schooling during the covid desert year. And now they’ll be missing on engaging with their educational program falling miles behind their mates, the ones that can google, ask their teacher a [...]

Just five days after Robert Abela was sworn as prime minister on 12 January 2020 incompetent, and since investigated by a magistrate’s order for alleged complicity in crimes, Lawrence Cutajar resigned from his post as Commissioner of Police. Not to diminish his income Robert Abela gave him a consultancy appointment worth €31,000 per annum which [...]