I’m seeing online comments assuming that, or wondering if, the 20 years struck off the appropriate penalty for Darren Debono it-Topo as a result of his bargain with Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg can be put back now that it’s clear he won’t give evidence against his accomplices in the 2010 HSBC heist. Aren’t pardons to [...]
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There's no point hoping Victoria Buttigieg will come to her senses of her own accord. She needs to be told to resign. You need to tell her. Here are the reasons. Repubblika, Occupy Justice and this website are calling a protest for this evening outside the Attorney General's office in South Street, Valletta. The protest [...]
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I don’t suppose Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg will consider resigning now. Last year, Vince Muscat il-Koħħu admitted killing Daphne Caruana Galizia. The Attorney General agreed with Vince Muscat to ask for a reduced sentence for murder (15 years instead of life) in exchange for evidence against his accomplices. His evidence strengthened the state’s case against [...]
The court dismissed a lawsuit brought against me by Yorgen Fenech, the man accused of complicity in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, finding he had no grounds to complain that I rejected his request to publish a letter he sent me claiming it was his right to reply to an article I had published [...]
However important you think you are, and however important you think your work is, however much in a hurry you may be, and however much you are willing to rationalise your actions in your own mind, leaving your bloody car on a parking space reserved for people with mobility problems must be, to my mind, [...]
The following are the concluding sentences from a post on the US website on international affairs, the International Policy Digest: The tumour of corruption in Malta has grown too large for the government to perform self-surgery particularly as the ruling elite have had a major hand in the descent into sleaze. As foreign owned businesses [...]
We only see what we’re allowed to see. We can only try to figure out what happens in the background, behind closed doors. I’m going to give you 6 things you’ve seen the front of these last few days and ask you what lingers in the vast blackness behind them. Consider the Steward's decision to [...]
Notwithstanding the reversal of the decision, I will not forgive the Labour government for giving away a large area of countryside at Żonqor for development in May 2015. Labour and its then-leader Joseph Muscat gave away an area of 90,000 square metres (equivalent to 18 football pitches) of Outside Development Zone land to the American [...]
A portrait of Malta’s indecisive society? It is only those in good health and free from suffering who can live looking towards the future. The rest - weak and in extreme suffering - just lie there, in the middle of the road, without certainties, without conviction and even now, at least in part, victims of [...]
Watch this video which summarises the report of Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatović after her October 2021 visit to Malta. Commissioner for Human Rights's Report on Malta 2022 from Council of Europe OP Services on Vimeo. The full report is linked here: CommDH(2022)1_ Report on the visit to Malta_EN
The prime minister announced that the government will be taking back the Żonqor area and the Senglea open space that had been allocated to the phantom so-called American University of Malta. He announced it the way he meant it to sound, like a gift by the government to its core constituency, entitling him to their [...]
Jacob Borg striding inches behind politicians rushing towards the safety of that fortress we still call the Auberge de Castille, one hand in his pocket like a rebel without a cause, the other holding up a microphone, is fast becoming a sub-genre of contemporary, low-budget, Maltese cinema. His latest guest star, Robert Abela, must surely [...]
Although that is what they want you think. Switching a rotten prime minister with another rotten prime minister is neither progress in and of itself nor is it an opening to secure fairness, truth, and justice. If we stop now, they win. They’ve used all their resources for four and half years in the hope [...]
Newsbook reported yesterday that the General Workers’ Union has suspended the editor of its newspapers l-orizzont and it-Torċa apparently because of some disagreement over pieces critical of the Labour Party. Details are still coming out and the editor himself, Victor Vella, hasn’t said anything yet but a closer look at what happened paints a very [...]
About 15 months ago I wondered aloud how Robert Abela came to be so wealthy. We’re starting to get answers. Here’s what The Sunday Times’s story of this morning means. At least in one case that we know of so far, Robert Abela billed a client for legal services in a creative manner. When you [...]