Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant reported the Maltese authorities are in shock at the tenacity and determination of MP Pieter Omtzigt appointed by the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly to report on whether the investigations into the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia are truly independent. The report says that Pieter Omtzigt is known in the Netherlands [...]
A banner with Malta's national flag, an image of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the word "Ġustizzja" put up by activists at 10:30 am this morning was put down by government officials at 2:15 pm today. Flowers and candles left there were also swept away and binned.
These photos were taken this afternoon. The call for Justice is 11 months old. But no fainter.
These photos are from earlier today. Join the protest by visiting the memorial and laying your own flowers and lighting your own candles. And join us tomorrow at a vigil, 11 months since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. At 7pm.
Labour Councillors in Mosta voted against a motion to recognise Daphne Caruana Galizia with the town’s yearly recognition. The President of the Local Council’s Association, Malta’s foremost representative of local autonomy and democratisation, Mario Fava, issued this post criticising the Councillors in Mosta who supported granting Daphne Caruana Galizia the recognition. Mosta did not rush [...]
At a civil society action near the Great Siege memorial in Valletta today some hecklers told activists "you've gone too far". The action was a silent protest that involved hanging a banner, laying flowers and placing candles. No molotov cocktail in sight. And yet they say it is "too far" because it carries the temerity [...]
Shanghai police have taken OKEx founder Star Xu into custody for voluntary questioning in relation to fraud alleged to have taken place in a crypto project. Chinese media reports that Xu’s possible connection to the project is being investigated. Local law enforcement states that Xu is accused of involvement and fraud by other investors. Star [...]
I don’t know if anyone showed Jean Claude Juncker a picture of the memorial in front of the Law Courts as it’s been reduced since last Sunday before he made his speech today. But he was definitely thinking of Malta and Daphne Caruana Galizia when he said that too many journalists across the EU were [...]
The prime minister went on one of his flower laying jaunts today. He’s in the habit of visiting memorials to his predecessors in his high office of the state. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with him laying flowers there. Flowers are nice. I like flowers. Most people I know like flowers. Whether you are [...]
Eddie Fenech Adami will always be a hard act to follow. I realise that sentence sounds like it was written in 2003. We certainly all thought it at the time, no one more so than Lawrence Gonzi I should imagine. He is now four leaders of the PN ago. A man of his time who [...]
A woman bought three candles and stretched her arm through police barriers to place them on the steps of a public square. Another woman straight off the street got close to her and took pictures of her doing so with her phone. There was no doubt she was not taking pictures in admiration but rather [...]
I was in Valletta this morning when activists on the trapped ship Lifeline Mission protested in Valletta. They couldn't have been more than 10 people marching quietly down Republic Street. One of them wore a mock mask of Joseph Muscat. Some people recognised that and the fact the protester was wearing handcuffs. They did not [...]
And they want to tell the world that we’re set up for money laundering. An unemployed man called Alfred Degiorgio gambles almost €600,000 in four casinos in Malta over a period of three years. And no one asks where does this guy gets his money. Eventually, Alfred Degiorgio would become famous for being accused of [...]
Not everyone in the blockchain industry is entirely enthused by Malta and the government’s offer. Read this piece in industry news site ETHNews. The publication describes itself as “an emerging provider of Ethereum and Blockchain ecosystem news”. Its recent editorial on Malta is unhappy reading for the promoters of Malta as “the blockchain island”. “Rising [...]
Read this on today's Bloomberg and see how the name of this country has been sullied for generations to come. I will just give you these lines from the article by the journalist standing next to the Great Siege Memorial before it was wrapped and barricaded by the government: On this day, dozens of tourists [...]
The defence of the PN for adopting a xenophobic line is that the government are manifestly neglecting immigration issues and consequently the opposition are duty bound to speak up. They don’t mean to be racist but if that’s how they sound when living up to their responsibilities of speaking about uncomfortable topics, too bad. There [...]
The Malta Independent this morning warned the government their decision to barricade the Great Siege Memorial to prevent the continuation of the protest demanding justice that started when Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed 11 months ago “will backfire”. The newspaper respects the tenacity of activists protesting there and thinks the government should be showing the [...]
Adrian Delia’s call to Maltese people “to stand up to foreigners” is the pits. It is the lowest point a politician can reach when they seek to split the community into subsets, creating division and drumming up the hate for the vulnerable. There have been signs the PN was going to lurch to the right [...]
This video by Deutsche Welle sums up the outcome of Valletta 2018. Our chance to be in the spotlight, to boost the support and confidence of the local artistic community, to live and experience genuinely European values of openness, tolerance and critical debate has been squandered and replaced with the silencing of protest. The feature [...]
An attempt by the government to stop a Council of Europe report on “ensuring the whole truth on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination emerges” has failed. The attempt was made by the Parliamentary Labour Party’s representative in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, former Minister Manuel Malia. Manuel Mallia asked the Committee on Legal [...]