If all the loose ends are too much, Simon Busuttil patiently takes you through the 17 Black scandal and why you should be furious right now. If you aren't angry it's because you haven't understood what this is costing you. So watch this.
Employees of companies whose accounts are held up at Satabank for over a month sat down for lunch today at the entrance of the Ernst&Young office in Msida protesting at the "amateurish" way the 'competent person' appointed by the MFSA to administer the bank is managing the crisis there. I spoke to a number of [...]
John Oliver two days ago. Tell me if this is familiar in any way. Parental advisory to the editor of l-orizzont, Brian Hansford and fellow travellers. The video contains frequent use of the f-word. Shudder. For the rest of you grown-ups this is compulsory viewing.
A prosecutor in Bari has declared the case of a woman who thumped a journalist for asking her uncomfortable questions, an act of mafia. For decades we have gone on with the idea that organised crime is for movies and other countries we go to for holidays. It is clear we need to think again. [...]
Malta Today scoops everyone this morning with the news Darren Debono is back in Malta. There have been many reported sightings but Yannick Pace is the first to confirm the news. He doesn't say how he confirms it as his sources appear to be people who actually saw it but there is no quote from [...]
A few days ago I argued editors of independent media should seek the protection of the courts to stop the executive from choosing which journalists to speak to and which to ignore. I made the point after the Institute of Journalists complained Konrad Mizzi only invited One TV and TVM to his press conferences. The [...]
I had been looking for the right quote because I knew he had said it. I found a quote from the eve of the last election saying that if charges were brought against Keith Schembri he would have to resign. I found a report of the prime minister announcing his Cabinet in 2017 and confirming [...]
This is a statement issued by the Department of Information some time ago. This is supposed to be a clarification to what Michael Farrugia told TG3 yesterday. That comment appeared to confirm The Sunday Times's story yesterday that someone was about to be arrested for commissioning Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder. That was how I understood [...]
The following is a guest post by PD leader Godfrey Farrugia. A United Nations Report by a Panel of Experts in September 2018 and the report by the group of international journalists behind Daphne Project published last month, suggest that smuggling activity is taking place close to Maltese territorial waters and is organized by an [...]
No news as yet of any arrests in connection with the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia a day after they were pre-announced in the now infamous The Sunday Times front page story. It is wrong to dismiss the report in the newspaper. It has not been denied by any of the agencies mentioned in it, [...]
Happy to share this with you. Resident troll Pearl Fava posted under a link to a post of mine challenging me on whether my wife, Clemence, was responsible for the enhancements to the yellow canvas around the Great Siege Memorial last week. Pearl Fava does not know my wife doesn't need anyone to speak on [...]
Several hundred clients of Satabank continue to suffer hardship as they’ve had their bank accounts frozen for a month now. There has been no indication yet by Ernst & Young, appointed by the MFSA to manage the bank when any of these funds would be released to customers. Frustration mounts as Maltese authorities appear to [...]
After a day of silence, Police Minister Michael Farrugia confirmed the report in this morning's The Sunday Times, speaking to TG3 earlier today. "The investigations are still ongoing. Europol has important information we are working on and we hope that soon those responsible are arrested". Michael Farrugia was quoted by Rai 3 speaking in English [...]
It’s been a whole day now since we’ve read on The Sunday Times the police are conducting a criminal inquiry into 17 Black. The Sunday Times did not explicitly say so, but it did imply the Prime Minister’s chief of staff and a government Minister are suspects in a criminal investigation in a major corruption [...]
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There’s a lot of thinking and asking that comes out of the stories on this morning’s front page of The Sunday Times. Somehow Labour spinners are presenting this is some form of vindication. There is one simple stark fact that emerges from the information given to The Sunday Times and we’re going to assume everyone [...]
Press Release A number of activists from civil society announced the establishment of ‘Repubblika’, a civil society organisation to participate in the national dialogue on the observance and enhancement of monitoring mechanisms of human rights, and of protecting and enhancing democracy in Malta. The activists declared their commitment towards constitutional values, which they called the [...]
'Investigators' told The Sunday Times they know who commissioned Daphne's murder. The story, by Ivan Martin, quotes a level of certainty that suggests that arrests are imminent. Judging by what the story says, the police have been busy solving the crime while we were exhorting them to do so and berating them for looking not [...]
Everyone understands something very basic. If you do something illegal, the police should look into it, investigate what really happened, collect the evidence of wrong-doing and then accuse you of that wrong-doing in a court of law where they then need to prove it. Whatever else, anyone else might do to help prevent or uncover [...]