Four new judges were sworn in today. The prime minister and government ministers were not involved in any stage of their selection. Except for Anna Mallia, who seems bothered that she wasn’t sworn in as a judge today as well, no one in the legal profession had any adverse comments about today’s appointees. Anna Mallia [...]
Aaron Farrugia begged his mummy to stop embarrassing him in front of his friends. He sounded like the chic geek whose mother follows him to school to snap at people she believes are being unkind to her precious baby. Aaron Farrugia's mummy had a lot to be flustered about lately what with her son being [...]
A new “Volontarjat Action Group” was launched today to challenge regulations published last year that make it impractical for NGOs and charities to raise funds to conduct their operations. A press conference this morning was led by Richmond Foundation’s CEO Stephania Dimech Sant who said the action group wanted to make it clear to the [...]
Another one of the “corruption” campaigns led by the Labour Party and its media while Joseph Muscat was opposition leader has fizzled out completely as a permit withdrawn in 2009 has been granted without any changes last Friday. The controversy was over an application for an extension to an old farmhouse in the Baħrija countryside [...]
Watch these comments given to the press by Ian Borg announcing that his adviser’s daughter has resigned from her job in the government agency that he oversees. Ian Borg explains he had no idea about the fact that Adreana Zammit, daughter of his assistant Jesmond, got over €100,000 worth of work commissioned directly from her [...]
I’m trying to follow the testimony of Brian Tonna to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee. It is painful listening. People with sympathy for him must be in agony hearing him contradict himself, fudging and slipping. I have no sympathy for him. But I have sympathy for his supporters’ embarrassment for his inability to string a sentence [...]
The Commissioner for Standards George Hyzler has had to respond and defend himself from an onslaught by Glenn Bedingfield. Glenn Bedingfield was criticising George Hyzler for finding that Carmelo Abela breached ethics rules when he used public funds to take out full-page ads for personal propaganda. Glenn Bedingfield accused George Hyzler of hypocrisy. 'He overspent [...]
Ivan Hallett from Floriana was handed a suspended jail term today and fined over €75,000 today for smuggling alcohol in 2015. A third of the fine will be paid to customs for the tax he avoided paying when he smuggled the bottles of vodka, whiskey and other drinks from Sicily. Ivan Hallet is a long [...]
Minnesota yesterday secured the conviction of Derek Chauvin a former police officer who killed George Floyd on 25 May 2020. It was an important trial because the homicide needed to be seen in the context of the relationship between the black community in America and the rest of American society. It was about police brutality, [...]
The former deputy leader of the Labour Party may have felt entitled to breathe easy when Vince Muscat and the Degiorgio brothers were denied pardons to turn State’s evidence. But Vince Muscat, who has confessed to and been convicted for killing Daphne Caruana Galizia, is still speaking about Chris Cardona’s alleged connections to Daphne’s murder. [...]
Filed by someone who calls himself Hephaestus. This article is addressed to anyone who dreams of a better Malta during their lifetime. For some time now, I have had this nagging feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with our collective attempt as a nation to truly turn the page and decisively shift away from decades [...]
The European Court of Justice replied today to a request by a Maltese court hearing Repubblika’s case on judicial appointments. The obvious headline is the European Court did not agree with Repubblika that giving the prime minister of a country a decisive power when new judges are appointed is in breach of EU law. The [...]
The search and rescue command centre of Malta’s army this morning issued an alert that someone was stranded at sea to the distant south east of Malta and north of Libya. The alert instructs vessels in the area to go to the point from where the alert was sent and report any significant sightings to [...]
Friday I criticised the prime minister for describing the new Marsa junction as some feat of engineering that people will fly to Malta to come to admire. I criticised the prime minister because not for the first time he allowed hyperbole to get the better of him. In reference to the Marsa junction I called [...]
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A vigil to remember Daphne Caruana Galizia is being held on line today. Follow the events on the Facebook pages of Repubblika and #occupyjustice. 6.00 p.m. Mass In Memoriam from Bidnija Church celebrated by Mgr Joseph Bajada. 7.00 p.m. Vigil for Truth and Justice from the Great Siege Square in Valletta. The vigil has been pre-recorded [...]