Today the government announced the appointment of a new ‘Independent Police Complaints Board’. You’d be forgiven for not knowing it existed before the shocking scandal of how the police allowed Joseph Muscat’s buddy Iosif Galea to go on holiday with the former prime minister despite an outstanding European Arrest Warrant issued against him by the [...]

Saying this won’t make much difference, but that’s never been a reason for me not to say something. We need to stand by our public officials and elected representatives when they are assaulted, especially when they’re assaulted just for doing their job. John Pillow, the Mayor of Sliema, was assaulted and injured by a bunch [...]

Malta Today columnist Raphael Vassallo has been awarded today €1,000 in damages after an article that appeared on this website made reference to his writings. Raphael Vassallo sued me and lost the case in the lower court presided by Magistrate Rachel Montebello. Judge Lawrence Mintoff this morning revoked the lower court's decision. In his judgement, [...]

The following is an English translation of Robert Aquilina's speech outside police headquarters on Wednesday. A year and three months ago – together with my fellow members – I entered the Police Headquarters for a meeting with Commissioner Angelo Gafà and the Deputy Commissioner Alexandra Mamo. On that occasion, the two officials had been occupying [...]