Surprisingly and exceptionally the office of the Prime Minister has decided to answer questions from an international press organisation. It hasn't done so for months now even telling some journalists they would consider answering their questions if those did not include any reference to Daphne Caruana Galizia. Of course, it's all the formalistic lip service [...]
Reporters without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, 60 per Daphne, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and PEN International laid flowers and candles and left messages in front of the court building in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia and demanding justice for her as a journalist killed in the line of duty. [...]
Here's something Andre Carbonaro posted on his Facebook wall 6 days ago.
Malta Today’s story on David Casa can’t have been published on the 14th of October by some coincidence. The choice of date serves the interests of those whose hearts are warmed by the bad weather today because the anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s killing is not being marked. An anonymous former staffer who worked for [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Sure enough the moment that One TV report about my collaboration in a campaign against Malta came up, the Labour Party’s vigilantes got to work. My Facebook page was flooded by messages of trolls, most not anonymous, recommending my exile, my arrest, my punishment, even my suicide. [...]
#occupyjustice and manueldelia.com announce that due to stormy weather the March for Truth and Justice planned for this afternoon is being postponed to Tuesday 16th October 2018, starting at 7:00 pm in front of Wembley Store, Valletta. We would like to confirm that the rest of the program of events for the 15th and 16th [...]
When Owen Bonnici lies he looks like a silly schoolboy. When the Minister of Justice lies it is a shocking embarrassment and yet more evidence that our institutions have been hijacked by banana republic tyrants. In a government statement yesterday Owen Bonnici said he had asked the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission for advice on [...]
Henley & Partners is now branding Maltese citizenship as a status symbol to be ticked off by the stupidly rich who “have a yacht and two aeroplanes”. Do you know many people who have a yacht and two aeroplanes? Although to be fair the real question ought to be: do you want to know anyone [...]
Fr Joe Borg interviewed John Sweeney this morning ahead of the BBC journalist's Freedom Lecture on Monday. He was told by a listener that he's being "fed wrong information". And John Sweeney patiently explained the difference between impartiality, which is a professional obligation and being able to tell right from wrong. Listen to the interview [...]
This was broadcast yesterday on Rai Uno's weekly news in-depth magazine TV7. The feature is by Maria Grazia Mazzola. https://www.facebook.com/inviataspecialeRai/videos/2058696170840837/
When in Rome yesterday I met again La Repubblica's Carlo Bonini, part of the Daphne Project and author of the 'Daphne' movie shown in an event organised by this website a few months ago. Through Feltrinelli he has just published his book on the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia that tells the story on what [...]
On behalf of my colleagues organising the Truth and Justice campaign, I would like to thank Steve Hili for his show last Sunday. And I would like to thank LovinMalta for feature the event on their site. Here are Tim Diacono's notes from the evening. Satire is a bit of a lost trade here in [...]
Consider this heading in a The Malta Independent report from a couple of days ago: “Temporary ITS Luqa Campus inaugurated”. “Temporary” suggests the place is a stop-gap solution, something on the way to a more permanent solution. An urgent fix that was needed until something better props up. And that would be an accurate impression. [...]
When Keith Arnaud, the police inspector in the investigation on who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, was interrogating Alfred Degiorgio he took il-Fulu through the devastating evidence they had to prove he killed the journalist. Keith Arnaud showed Alfred Degiorgio the police had all the answers. Records of SIM card purchases, the movements of phones, records [...]
This screenshot of Glenn Bedingfield losing more than his cool in Parliament a couple of days ago is the stuff of nightmares. And Jurgen Balzan reacts in the appropriate manner. He calmly remarks "if Egrant does not belong to anyone within the Labour regime, there is no need for Glenn Bedingfield to lose his [...]
Partit Demokratiku's statement: PD in full support of Sunday’s demonstration: Manifestazzjoni Ġustizzja u Verità Partit Demokratiku is the only party represented in parliament which has unfailingly supported civil society in its incessant demands for an end to corruption and impunity, for good governance and truth and justice. Why? Because Partit Demokratiku is a democratic and [...]
On Tuesday, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and the German journalist union Deutscher Journalisten-Verband (DJV) are hosting a vigil outside the Maltese Embassy in Berlin to commemorate Daphne Caruana Galizia, and to make it clear that also a year later, the pressure on the Maltese government to investigate this murder thoroughly will [...]
Sent in by someone known to me: It is obvious why government members went all out to drown down Simon Busuttil’s telling comments on the Egrant inquiry at Parliament’s sitting on 10 October. He was spot on in saying that the Magistrate’s conclusions in his report did not categorically rule out that Egrant’s owner could [...]
This is my translation of an article carried yesterday by La Repubblica. If you can, read the original here. “State of Denial”: an English expression that accurately describes the effect of the new revelations published Tuesday by La Repubblica and the Daphne Project coordinated by Forbidden Stories, throwing light once more on the undiscovered darkness [...]
There are bigger fish to fry, but I can’t let this fish slip. I wasn’t in the courtroom when Magistrate Joe Mifsud is reported to have appointed an exorcist in some mumbo-jumbo case he was presiding. The report in Times of Malta refers to this exorcism business in its heading but says very little about [...]