Matthew Caruana Galizia is yet another witness in the Egrant inquiry who says he has been warned by Magistrate Aaron Bugeja of consequences if evidence in his possession was handed over to the inquiry. “When I testified before Magistrate Aaron Bugeja more than a year ago, he warned me he could not protect me if [...]
You're not expected to memorise this. There's no test at the end of the week. But you should know that Jacqueline Alexander, the witness who testified she never signed the declarations of trust of Egrant identifying Michelle Muscat as its owner served as director for the list of companies appearing here. For each of these [...]
Die Welt, one of Germany’s top newspapers, has published a detailed story on the case of Mike Mansholt, a young German man whose body was found at the foot of Dingli cliffs next to his bike but missing his shoes and his camera. He had no fractures or any bodily evidence of a fall and [...]
Ali Sadr Hasheminejad’s sister, Negarin Sadr, closed down her clothes shop in San Francisco four weeks ago. A trusted source of this website yesterday visited the address formerly occupied by Negarin London after its Google page marked it as permanently closed. Witnesses from the neighbourhood on Fillmore Street, San Francisco, told this website Negarin London [...]
From a report of an interview with Simon Busuttil published this morning on the EU Observer: "'It is getting to a point where they are steadily and slowly taking over the judiciary. Fortunately the Constitutional Court decided in my favour, one month ago, to remove the judge and guess what? They appealed,' Busuttil says. "Similar [...]
This is Winston Psaila's speech at yesterday's vigil: I would like to say something about hope and illusions. For as long as I can remember, it was drummed into us that hope springs eternal. It’s the last thing to die because it’s the only butterfly we managed to trap in Pandora’s box. I have never [...]
Photos by Jon Borg
This speech, in Maltese, was delivered at yesterday's vigil by Jessica Debattista: Daphne…… kienet artista! Forsi tarawha stramba din l-affermazzjoni f’dawn il-mumenti fejn kulħadd qiegħed jiffoka fuq il-korruzzjoni li ħakmet ‘il pajjiżna. Daphne kienet artista, għall-fatt li kellha sens ta’ osservazzjoni akut, tant li kienet tqaxxru l-karattru Malti fil-kitbiet tagħha. Ma kien jaħirbilha xejn, tant [...]
This is Lizzie Eldridge's speech at yesterday's vigil. It is 10 months since the brutal assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. It is 10 months since she was brutally murdered. And if we had to detail every single thing that’s happened since she was killed, it would fill a million books. And these books would be [...]
The following message was read out at yesterday's Valletta vigil for truth and justice, marking 10 months since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. It was read out on their behalf by their aunt Corinne Vella. Few people enjoy confrontation. But many of you here know that it’s sometimes necessary. The past few weeks have [...]
I don’t mean hanging in the metaphorical ‘out to dry’ sense. The man asks for the gallows and our Finance Minister, professor of something or other, and face of rationality for the world’s perspective of our country polishes his thumb for some indecent exposure. In what country would a government minister survive this — let [...]
I am thinking of making some changes here on manueldelia.com. The website layout was designed at a time when I was posting 4 times a week. Now I often post more than that in a day. It's time to look at ways of improving your experience as a user, guest writer, commenter and supporter of [...]
#occupyjustice press release today: Glowing candles formed the word ‘Justice’ which illuminated the beach of Font Għadir in Sliema just before the break of dawn, to mark ten months since the assassination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The action was carried out by #occupyjustice, a group of activists led by women. “We are here, [...]
Karen Zerafa Boffa first published this on her personal Facebook page. Reproduced here without her permission. I don't think she'll mind. Friends often ask me, "Why do you bother to attend Daphne's vigils every month? Can't you see it's useless? Why don't you just keep your head under the parapet like most people are doing, [...]
Dotted around the islands today:
German songwriter Philip Boa has declared himself “alienated from his second home” Malta in interviews released to German media on the occasion of the release of his new album “Earthly Powers”. The album is named after a 1980 novel by Anthony Burgess, another artist alienated from Malta who fictionalised his experience of Malta’s state-mandated [...]
If you're one to look away from Facebook because of the vile inanities on it, I don't blame you. But sometimes, just sometimes, you need to know what your fellow countrymen are prepared to say when they stumble on something they disagree with. Earlier this week I posted a link to my post inviting people to [...]
Sent in by card-carrying members of the PN known to me: Dr Delia you owe us an explanation about the it-Torċa interview In Malta, the wife of the leader of a political party does not have any political role. We are not the United States of America, we do not have a presidential system. We [...]
The story of the migrants paying €200 a month for a shared cowshed set people talking about racism. And of course, there’s a lot to be said about that. Aditus Foundation spoke to Times of Malta suggesting there could be more to the story and urging the authorities to investigate possible slavery and human [...]
