Images from yesterday's vigil by Darrin Zammit Lupi. Daphne sixth anniversary commemoration

Statement today by the US embassy: On October 16, 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in a heinous attack because she took risks to expose corruption.  Today, six years after the murder of Ms. Caruana Galizia, justice has not been fully served. We condemn those who would employ violence to silence dissenting voices.  The United [...]

The private staff of ministers have access to influence on the conduct of the public’s affairs. The fact that ministers trust them should not be sufficient qualification. Ministers can’t know everything about their staff and the government should use the resources at its disposal to screen people it places in such positions. It is a [...]

How did you go on? How did you pick up where you left off after three weeks of enjoying what it feels like to be away from it from a while? What kept you from feeling that being alone was not worth all that you had to give up? Even without considering the fear of [...]

On the sixth anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, we, the undersigned organizations, renew our calls for Maltese authorities to bring to justice all those responsible for her killing and to implement in full the recommendations of the public inquiry into her assassination. Caruana Galizia, who rose to prominence through [...]

They do this while we go on resisting them. Imagine what they'd do if we gave up.

Here are the events scheduled for tomorrow to mark the 6th year without Daphne Caruana Galizia. ATTENTION Anyone wishing to join us for the Silent Gathering in Bidnija tomorrow at 3:00PM are advised that there are roadworks taking place in road leading to the site from the Mosta side. Although there is access through the [...]

Blackadder fans will get the reference in this post’s title. Owen Bonnici did that thing today where he presented himself after half an hour’s work he was compelled to do for reasons entirely out of his control as a Moses on the other side of the ocean right as the waves swamped the chariots of [...]

Hard right, tinfoil hat, conspiracy theorist Simon Mercieca “reported” that “my friend” Lara Comi, an MEP from Forza Italia, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for corruption. He also said Lara Comi was David Casa’s friend and a friend of the people he calls “Repubblichini”, his idea of an irritating collective [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The prime minister now warns 18-year-old voters that they must find a minister to fix their driving test for them. Because that’s the way politics is done in Malta and the prime minister said he would disagree with any other way. I don’t think that’s a recycled [...]

The Constitutional Court turned down a case I filed, complaining that a court decision finding me responsible for libel breached my right to free expression. The case goes back some years. I wrote a post about how Malta should have an anti-mafia law. In that article I was explaining the meaning of omertà and said [...]

The industrial tribunal, chaired by Anna Mallia of all people, found Jonathan Ferris was unlawfully fired by the FIAU. He was dismissed during his probation period just days after the general election of 2017. People think that during probation they can fire someone with impunity. It’s not like that. You cannot fire someone during probation [...]

This is going to feel like a cop-out though it’s not meant to be. I think the government is right to provide incentives, even monetary incentives, to encourage students to choose academic programs that yield a greater return to the economy. There are, no doubt, more reasons than merely wealth that should go into deciding [...]

Special edition of PEN Malta's podcast ahead of Monday's book launch. To attend the launch register on [email protected]

We've been on this campaign for 6 years. And as one of us was called to the police station today to be interrogated merely for speaking, you may be reminded that what we set out to achieve when Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed is, at this point, still an ambition. We want a fair society [...]

Someone at police headquarters appears keen to persuade Repubblika’s Robert Aquilina they are far more effective at law enforcement than he is in the habit of suggesting. Today he was called in for questioning and cautioned that everything he said could and would be used against him in a court of law. The funny thing [...]

Perhaps no other statement by Robert Abela before his remarks of today better represents the depth of anti-democratic populism in his politics and the politics of the ruling Labour Party. Coldly and cynically, he shattered any hope or any dream a child might ever have of being inspired by his example and motivated by his [...]

Robert Abela yesterday agreed to publish a white paper with legislative changes to the laws regulating the media before taking them to Parliament. It wasn’t something he wanted to do. In fact, there are draft laws already in front of Parliament. They’ve been there more than a year, frozen, after the shock of the international [...]

This statue stands outside the Parliament building. It will be there for the next two weeks as we remember the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia 6 years ago. Its maker, Gerald Moroder, moulded the statute with materials collected from the debris of the explosion that killed Giovanni Falcone in Capaci, Sicily, 30 years ago. The [...]