I have come across Facebook posts by grand-children of President Ċensu Tabone who was Malta’s foreign minister 33 years ago. They were referring to a speech he gave to the General Assembly of the United Nations about climate change and how, rightly, proud they are their grand-father and their country had the foresight to warn [...]
How can you not sympathise with people of the younger generation that have given up on this country? If any of them watched the session of the Public Accounts Committee today they would have seen our democracy in action. It is embarrassing. There’s no better way of saying it. Konrad Mizzi said the same thing [...]
If the standard of conviction at the Glasgow climate crisis summit is met by Robert Abela, the planet is done for. And to be fair, it probably is the standard. Every leader from every country attending has their turn to speak and you won’t expect them to say that climate change is a hoax and [...]
A Malta-distributor of a specialised toothpaste for children was forced to apologise to dentists in Malta after their product featured in Rosianne Cutajar’s Halloween campaign. Images posted to Facebook by Rosianne Cutajar over the Halloween weekend shows “goody bags” distributed to children included sweets and tubes of Vitis Junior tooth-paste. Cutajar’s Facebook post drew attention [...]
Artist Kevin Scerri has donated a copy of his Press Freedom Sculpture to Repubblika in recognition of its efforts to promote press freedom. At a presentation event, Mr Scerri said that "the Press Freedom Sculpture is being awarded as a token of respect, a sign of recognition for the work done, and as an inspiration [...]
Government members did not think so, but Bernard Grech struck the right tone yesterday at the sitting marking 100 years since the first Maltese Parliament convened. Government members expected “kelmtejn tal-okkażjoni”, some bland self-congratulation in a half-hearted circle jerk about the greatness of our democracy. Right now, our democracy is as far from great as [...]
In a reply to Opposition MP Claudette Buttigieg, Prime Minister Robert Abela confirmed that he’s been working for months on drafting an anti-SLAPP law “to strengthen the protection of journalists”. The MP asked the question because just recently the PM said the law was days away from being presented to Parliament. Where’s the law then? [...]
A libel court has rejected a claim by Raphael Vassallo against me over a piece I wrote in October 2019 which discussed the 1980s introduction of specific Italian laws to fight the mafia. In the article I made reference to the concept of omertà, which, I said, also includes situations where journalists mislead their readers [...]
Mark Camilleri, former National Book Council Chairman, is a Labour supporter. He used to be a party delegate at its general conference. However, as the Italians say non ha peli sulla lingua. He speaks his mind. He has been critical of the Labour government because of the corruption we had to put up with for [...]
That must be the first lesson I can remember being given. My mother sent me across the street to the local shop to fetch her butter and ham for sandwiches back when I needed careful navigation instructions to understand what across the street meant. That trip came with two lessons. Look left, then right, then [...]
An unhealthy level of psychopathy is required to speak the way Robert Abela did yesterday about the speculation over the last several weeks on an early election date. It may not be entirely unreasonable to accuse the PN of betraying frayed nerves about an election date set sooner than they’d have liked it to be. [...]
A container that was supposed to be carrying hospital beds from Malta was held yesterday by Misurata’s customs officers after it was found carrying illegal narcotics the authorities believe “target young people”. A report on Libyan news website Almarsad quotes Libyan customs officer say that 3.8 million TAMOL-K 225, originally from India, were found in [...]
These images are by Darrin Zammit Lupi.
Labour’s TV two nights ago said that a conspiracy of “the establishment” to take power from the Labour Party was being hatched on the doorstep of the police headquarters. The “evidence” of this conspiracy was a photo where a priest, a journalist, an Opposition MP, and activists from Repubblika were found to be within the [...]
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Today’s decision by the Constitutional Court confirming the denial of bail to the Degiorgio brothers is very, very important. There’s the obvious importance of keeping the Degiorgios in detention. They are awaiting trial for killing a journalist, in and of itself an assault on the very basis of democracy. They were part of a wider [...]
This happens all the time but the mistake is mine for not pointing it out each time. It is important to note how One TV reports and comments on a civil society protest because One TV is the TV station owned, controlled, operated, and that speaks for the ruling party. This is the reaction of [...]
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You know that when you go outside the office of the police to demand they act on 5-year old evidence that a former government minister set himself up for bribes, some people are going to be annoyed. You know that some of those people are going to feel free to go on Facebook and find [...]