From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Being Maltese means living in Malta, whatever your faith or whether you have any; whatever your race if you even belong to one; wherever it was that you were born; as long as you’re committed to fundamental values: not imqaret or nar tal-art. "Try truth, solidarity, compassion, [...]
Sent in by someone known to me. In the past days, Labour Party media channels and subservient others reported as if it were a journalistic scoop, a meeting between Ray Bezzina, a Nationalist Party functionary, and Richard Cachia Caruana. The latter’s very long service to the country and the Nationalist Party has earned him respect [...]
Some of us never had any doubt but Lovin Malta’s strip-tease reporting confirms the long-held suspicion that Pierre Portelli, as one of the most senior employees of the PN, colluded with Yorgen Fenech to plant stories on media that supports the Labour Party. Pierre Portelli appears to have asked Yorgen Fenech – publicly known then [...]
Putting this out there precisely because it does not make for pleasant reading. It is a mirror facing our society, an indictment of our education system, and a reminder why in the face of all appeals for national unity, our first priority as human beings is to first think of our own responsibilities as individuals. [...]
People buying new electric cars are being prevented from subscribing to use roadside electric vehicle charging stations, this website understands. All but a handful of harbour-side stations allow subscribers to charge their cars against payment which is charged to their accounts. But the operator of the charging stations confirmed to this website they are unable [...]
Finance Malta is an organisation that brings together commercial interests in the financial services industry and the government to promote Malta as a financial services destination. They have their work cut out for them. They have to convince the world this is not Panama, although what the rest of the world hears about this country [...]
Manuel Delia · Beware Euromyths. Watch Out For Raphael Vassallo. Raphael Vassallo has already dragged me to court on one thing so I know I’m poking some sort of sleepy dragon here but his article about “Britain poaching our nurses” because of the UK’s supposedly advantageous status as a non-EU member state is composed of [...]
As I see it, the significance of Times of Malta’s story yesterday that as late as March 2019 Joseph Muscat was brokering international business deals for Yorgen Fenech, is not only in how revolting the fact in itself is. It should also dissolve any remaining doubts in his inveterate fans’ minds that still prefer to [...]
It must surprise no one, not even, if he could be honest with himself, Adrian Delia, that Adrian Delia’s big cheque for 500,000 euro for the Dar tal-Providenza bounced. I believe the technical term is dishonoured cheque, and how appropriate that adjective is. I would say that the managers, volunteers and beneficiaries of the great [...]
Byron Camilleri said today he ordered the removal of a sign put up in prison by its director Alex Dalli that told prison staff they must teach “fear” to prisoners. Byron Camilleri said he “learned of the existence of this notice in (his) first few days as home affairs minister, and (he) had taken steps [...]
https://youtu.be/83cFwPPVJjw https://youtu.be/g8CbAUyq9o8 https://youtu.be/937ifw6ApiA https://youtu.be/2ql6PDO8xRY https://youtu.be/Rc3x0PkSs6w https://youtu.be/jmtX0etJbe8 https://youtu.be/52ggIW0WMDs
Newly minted minister for the Finance Clyde Caruana reportedly said that his predecessor Edward Scicluna, raised the remuneration of the Governor of the Central Bank by €11,000 to €100,000 per annum because of relativity and not because Scicluna was manoeuvring to slither into this position once he’d resigned from ministerial office. Now that’s a new [...]
Pierre Portelli and I were buddies at university. He’s a bit older than I am. He joined the communications program as a mature student. We shared an interest in horror movies and politics and you know, at some point in one’s life that’s enough to go watch movies and have meaning-of-life conversation into the wee [...]
Newsbook reported that the chief justice has to handpick a magistrate to hear the police’s case against lawyers Gianluca Caruana Curran and Charles Mercieca for trying to bribe Times of Malta’s Ivan Martin. That means two magistrates must have already dodged the duty to try the case. Admittedly it’s awkward for a magistrate to try [...]
In August 2018, this website reported the church had suspended a senior Gozitan cleric from the priesthood after “credible” allegations emerged that up to 16 years previously he had groomed and sexually abused a child for several years. That was the case of Eucharist Sultana who was archpriest in Xagħra for several years and who [...]
Here’s this morning’s editorial on General Workers’ Union daily l-orizzont. It takes a point from an important decision at the Royal Court of Justice four days ago that quashed guilty verdicts by a lower court that convicted 15 protesters who broke into the airfield of Stansted airport in 2017 to disrupt a repatriation flight dragging [...]
Yesterday’s decision by the industrial tribunal to award damages to John Bundy after he was unlawfully thrown out of his job as boss at the national broadcaster shows one thing at least. The board members hired to oversee the company were a bunch of amateurs who did not know the first thing about how to [...]
I enjoy a spot of fireworks as much as the next guy and I am in awe of the skills involved in putting together extraordinary spectacles. I live and work in Mqabba, the mecca of the national fireworks cult, so I get to see the best stuff, or so folks in Mqabba say. If anything [...]
From Times of Malta's court blog of today reporting as evidence is heard against Yorgen Fenech, accused of killing Daphne Caruana Galizia: Francis Sant, a Bidnija resident, is the next witness. He says he was driving towards Bidnija at around 3 pm on the day. As he drove up the hill, he saw a small [...]
