No sooner has Keith Schembri produced another poor excuse for a justification for his off-shore accounts that we hear that Maltese investigators already suspected that sort of excuse to be a pre-arranged alibi. Keith Schembri yesterday said his BVI structure predated by a year or two his appointment to office and therefore reflects his personal [...]
By Andrew Borg Cardona I was asked, by many, why I bothered to put a few words together to show up Martin Scicluna’s poor judgement and even poorer respect for our intelligence. “Who cares what he writes?” was the general trend, “We all know what he is”. It would be so easy to take this [...]
Adrian Delia told the world last Sunday the PN will no longer be a party of elitists. Let’s try to understand what that means. Mark Anthony Falzon wrote last Sunday how Joseph Muscat tapped into the intuitive Labour mindset that perceives the protesters at the post-Daphne Caruana Galizia marches and vigils “shouting slogans in English” [...]
The Brussels University Alliance has recognised Daphne Caruana and her family at their 2018 Difference Day event. The Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression is awarded to a journalist, writer, artist, cultural thinker or any other person, association or institution that has made a vital contribution to protect and promote freedom of thinking and expression [...]
Keith Schembri’s retorts to revelations into his sordid financial affairs are sounding ever more irritated and as a consequence ever more irritating. Here’s his answer to this morning’s report on the Times of Malta that the British Virgin Islands authorities investigated his company there for money laundering, a fact we would never have learnt had [...]
Sent in by Mary T. O'Cracy who recommends a little stress relief:
In a ruling on an application filed by former Enemalta Chairman Tancred Tabone, the Constitutional Court found that Justice Minister Owen Bonnici breached Tancred Tabone’s fundamental human rights as a result of a pronouncement he made during a Public Accounts Committee hearing in December 2013. In that hearing Minister Owen Bonnici commented during the deposition [...]
Political parties should sometimes be reminded that with the electioneering, cavorting with construction magnates, coffee mornings and trips to Azerbaijan, they also need to come up with policies for improved governance of this country. They don’t need to wait for crises to overwhelm us before they realise they need do something about them. They are [...]
The below was a full-page advert taken out in the press today by Steward Health Care. The objective presumably was to inspire confidence in "the people behind Steward". The only thing this managed to inspire is the suspicion that Steward people have multiple personality disorder or have discovered human cloning. The 42 photos, with no [...]
By Andrew Borg Cardona: It’s not my habit to watch the assorted videos that are posted on social media or the news portals, but sometimes I do. I’ve just watched Minister Konrad Mizzi being importuned by Ivan Camilleri of the Times. Camilleri seems to have one thing on his mind, almost obsessively it could be [...]
This interview was first published in the original Italian as part of the "Malta Report" presented at the forty-second Anti-Mafia summit recently convened in Naples. A copy of the Malta Report published by the Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulla Criminalità Organizzata e le Mafie is here. Aldo Musci interviews Giuseppe Lumia (in past legislatures a member for [...]
Ah well. Better late than. Though not by much. When she broke the biggest news, had the biggest readership, single-handedly changed the information landscape and was the target of organised intimidation, the IĠM should have recognised her too. When her stories were ignored by their subjects, the IĠM should have led its members in ensuring [...]
The Malta Independent carried Steve Flinders' review of Invicta, the anthology of essays written within days of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. You should read it.
Freddy Gray of The Spectator interviews a source who worked for SCL (Cambridge Analytica's UK mother company) up to 2010. The whistle-blower speaks of working both for Alexander Nix of SCL and Christian Kaelin of Henley & Partners who coordinated funding and electoral works for political leaders in the Caribbean who would then engage Henley [...]
Of course in principle Chris Fearne should not get the blame for the fact that one of his staffers got greedy and solicited a bribe. As far as we can tell the moment he found out he threw the guy out. No organisation is immune from rotten elements. The real test of their quality is [...]
Whatever Konrad Mizzi lost yesterday, he appears to have found it. Audio on this video is NSFW. If for whatever reason you're too distracted and are struggling to focus, Konrad Mizzi is the guy in the black t-shirt and GI Joe glasses. The guy doesn't look sober when he is, so I would [...]
Neil Chenoweth worked with Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2016 when the Panama Papers came out. He writes for the Australian Financial Review and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and has recently provided more detail on Azerbaijan's use of Malta and how that has evolved since the crash of Pilatus Bank. Two hundred days since [...]
Paolo Borrometti, independent journalist on investigative blog site La Spia, has survived a plan by the Sicilian Mafia to execute him during a visit to his native Sicily. Paolo Borrometti has lived in Rome for some time under heavy security. Italian law enforcement agencies foiled the Mafia's plans to kill Borrometti after acquiring intelligence from [...]
I hesitated to write my reaction to Julia Farrugia’s piece in The Times yesterday. The mental picture of a loud, burly man telling a woman why she’s wrong about her interpretation of the causes of misogyny in our society or why women in politics are at a disadvantage compared with men is horrible. No man [...]
Daphne Caruana Galizia has been awarded the 2018 Mario Francese prize for investigative journalism. In its 21st year, this is the first time the honour has ever been awarded to a non-Italian. The citation says the honour is “for Daphne Caruana Galizia who, searching for truth in a complex reality and determined to expose the [...]