Gaming companies licensed here are generating for themselves tens of billions of euro in turnover. The revenues they attract are truly mind-boggling. They pay little tax and dodge regulatory bullets like they were made of water. The technology designing games has a moderate recreational value but they can hardly be said to be enriching the [...]
Paolo Borrometi is the winner of the 2019 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. The Peter Mackler Award honours reporters and editors who have demonstrated a commitment to fairness in the story well told and a matching commitment to defending the right to publish and air that story. This is what Peter Mackler [...]
The organisation that manages the Saluting Battery under the Upper Barraka Gardens in Valletta has finally had its way and will be removing the grassy lawn that has been a feature of the view from the garden terrace for over a decade. The lawn is believed to be the cause of water seepage down the [...]
A special session of the town council of Ronchi dei Legionari on 26 October coming will meet to confer on Matthew Caruana Galizia its honorary citizenship as part of its day of initiatives to promote press and media freedom. The decision was announced in a statement of support by the Friuli Venezia Giulia regional council [...]
Alexey Klishin (standing) with Vincenzo Scotti, Joseph Mifsud and Stephan Roh to his left. A team of investigative journalists have found links between the lawyer and friend of ‘Mystery Professor’ Joseph Mifsud and a senior Russian lawyer who advised the Kremlin. Forensic News has also reported that Stephan Roh, who is based in [...]
Whenever someone pops in from the outside to look at what’s happening in this country, we are reminded we’re not entirely mad. Because sometimes that’s how they make you feel. Last Friday Ann De Marco proudly outed herself as the woman responsible to restore the Daphne Caruana Galizia protest site in the Great Siege Square [...]
I got this now from Robert Arrigo. He sure works hard on his location scouting. Montekristo Estates. Seabank Hotel. I suppose Robert Musumeci would call these 'moral integers'. As opposed to moral fractions? Moral decimals? Moral percentiles?
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The sophistry that Hermann Schiavone’s actions were not illegal is familiar. We get it all the time as the central justification of the snorting at the trough that Labour has developed into a system of government. "But is that not the point of ethics, to judge between [...]
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Repubblika statement. Repubblika expresses its renewed sadness and frustration at photographs of private individuals who last night vandalised mementos left by protesters in Great Siege Square, Valletta, 22 months to the day after the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The vandals mocked, destroyed and trashed photographs of Daphne Caruana Galizia and a protest banner that [...]
A short time after last night's vigil someone on Robert Musumeci's mission to remind the HTT (holier than though for those of you not entirely au fait with the avukat-perit's lingo) how objectionable the politics of hate is, went up to the protest site in Great Siege Square to tear down a picture of Daphne [...]
Statement by #occupyjustice: #OccupyJustice activists this evening commemorated 22 months since the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia by unfurling a banner featuring an image of the journalist with the legend ‘Invicta’ at the Great Siege Monument in Valletta. ‘Invicta’, meaning ‘unconquered’, is also the inspiration for Invictus, a poem by English poet William Ernest Henley. [...]
The New York trial of Iranian banker Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad has been pushed back to January 2020 and may be postponed further if a hearing due in a few days determines he needs to replace his lawyers because of a conflict with other clients of theirs. Ali Sadr’s firm of defence lawyers Steptoe & [...]
This is a statement by Repubblika: The President’s statement of today is appalling on so many counts. Firstly, it is wrong on facts. Repubblika indeed sent President George Vella a letter on 15th March to his private residence informing him of our submissions to his predecessor Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, then still in office. In [...]
Ever so often it’s time to bring this picture up again. This time it’s about pezzonovante Engelbert Grech who used to be Film Commissioner — that’s the government agency that promotes the film industry — and now in the private business of providing production services for international film producers. In this photo of our very [...]
