Guest post by Alessandra Dee Crespo This is how I see it. The Vigils held on every sixteenth day of each month are for Daphne. To remember her with gratitude. To remember her sacrifice. To assuage our conscience for leaving her to fight the battles alone. To show solidarity to her husband, to her parents, [...]
Tomorrow is not a vigil. God knows Daphne Caruana Galizia deserves one everyday. And if we're fighting for truth and justice today it's because Daphne lived her life doing so until she was killed for it. We will continue to remember and remind and insist that justice is done for her and her family for [...]
Confidentiality rules are intended to protect businesses from the abusive behaviour of competitors. They are not intended to protect criminals by hiding their crimes. If a business’s records are stolen and passed to a competitor or publicly leaked, that’s industrial espionage. That business has a clear right to complain. Unless of course what they were [...]
Mario Azzopardi, introduced by Chris Cardona as his chief of staff and close friend, is the cousin of Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar. Chris Cardona's Ministry website lists another person as his Chief of Staff. However Mario Azzopardi's Facebook page says he is "self-employed" at the "Ministry for Economy". His self-employment might be referring to the [...]
A moron is who moronic does. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, who may know a thing or two about rotten teeth and is therefore obviously qualified to run our science and technology council, barged in like a teenage gatecrasher at a royal wedding and loaned his wisdom to the Great Fejn Hu l-Leptopp Debate and looked up [...]
I am informed the Police have a perfectly good idea who tipped off the alleged assassins of Daphne Caruana Galizia prior to their arrest. The motivation for the tip off appears to have been to alert them to dispose of incriminating evidence, such as mobile phones. The Police appear to have traced the tip-off to [...]
I feel like a proper patronising sod lecturing Fundamental Rights 101, treating my well informed readers like idiots. But then I know my readers include Owen Bonnici, Jason Micallef and his English-Maltese translator, Deo Debattista, Mario Azzopardi and so on, and I realise that there’s a full range of readers and a little patronising is [...]
The United States federal court has denied Ali Sadr's request for bail pending his trial for multiple counts of bank fraud and sanctions busting. Ali Sadr's lawyers argued for bail including the argument that the Maltese authorities had certified that he was under no suspicion for his activities at Pilatus Bank. In spite of this [...]
Resignations from directorships at Pilatus Bank have started. The 'competent person' running the bank filed the resignation of Director Joseph Jerry Liow-Yune-Loy with the MFSA and he's out. This may or may not be a missed opportunity to discuss with Mr Liow-Yune-Loy when he found out the owner of the bank he was director of [...]
Malta is not the only European Capital of Culture in 2018. The other city is Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. Its Director Tjeerd van Bekkum stated in an interview with the largest Dutch news organisation NOS that his committee no longer sends official representatives to Malta. The Frisian foundation LF2018 (the equivalent of V18) has suspend the cooperation with its [...]
The Police have not reacted to the question on whether the alleged assassins hired to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia were in their opinion tipped off prior to their arrest. They should. The Police’s job does not stop at the arrest of someone they suspect of committing a crime. Nabbing the criminal is the relatively easy [...]
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I’ve had it up to here hearing people say they don’t mind if ministers are corrupt if their good work makes everyone that little bit richer. Never mind choosing between right or wrong, that these people would not distinguish if right floated towards them on the backs of doves until wrong stabs it in the [...]
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Watch Beppe Fenech Adami's speech in Parliament this week: https://www.facebook.com/bfenechadami/videos/2064855116888186/
The Swedish National Press Club has awarded its 2018 Freedom of Speech award in memory of Anna Politkovskaya to Daphne Caruana Galizia “for independent journalism with courage and integrity in times when investigative journalism is under hard pressure”. The award in memory of Anna Politkovskaya is given to a journalist who in his or her [...]
Tuesday’s Labour Party mass meeting will be massive, maybe one of the largest political gatherings ever. The crowd is pumped up and tensions have not been so high in years, decades even. The Labour Party is pushing it as a call to arms. It’s a do or die moment to support the great leader in [...]
By Lizzie Eldrige. From her long series of Tales from the Land of Serenity. All this hullabaloo in the Land of Serenity when we are simply and quietly trying to go about our business as usual. For such a small and peaceful little haven of tranquility that simply likes to keep itself to itself as [...]
This is a statement issued this morning by #occupyjustice and Awturi. Spread the word. A CALL FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH #occupyjustice and L-Awturi are gravely concerned about recent developments. Firstly, it is very clear now that Minister Konrad Mizzi lied to the Maltese and European Parliaments, and that both he and the Prime [...]