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The last hours of planning for tonight’s protest march have been eventful. As organisers we have been teased to react to developments. This political party coming along. The other political party coming along but promising to make the first party uncomfortable. This NGO saying it agrees with the protest but would rather stay away. Those [...]

Owen Bonnici, Silvio Parnis and Deo Debattista are flying business to Vienna to visit the Baby Jesus. They're cutting the ribbon a ribbon on a much recycled crib with a luzzu, which is odd in itself given that Betlehem is 30 kilometres from the nearest body of water is. This act out of what would [...]

Statement by Repubblika: Repubblika notes and welcomes the fact that the government has at last agreed to the opening of an independent inquiry about the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. But this is nowhere near the arrival on the road to justice. To begin with what Daphne revealed in her journalism – that brought about [...]

An expert report commissioned by international wildlife NGO WWF estimates that weak regulatory checks are allowing illegal fishing of blue fin tuna to exceed maximum yearly quotas by 50%. Quotas were introduced by international agreement around 10 years ago after blue fin tuna stocks shrunk dangerously with the rising popularity of sashimi-grade fish. Demand for [...]

Updated 13:29 Adds Caruana Galizia's family's reaction. Professor Ian Refalo and Commissioner Anthony Abela Medici have been removed from the inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia after their conflicts of interests were widely deemed to make them unsuitable for the job. The inquiry board will be chaired by Judge Michael Mallia (the original [...]

Please go to the Times of Malta website to read this piece by Repubblika's Alessandra Dee Crespo. If you're reading this you probably don't need convincing to join us tomorrow. But if you're trying to persuade someone else, this will come in handy. Meantime, here's a taste: "The fight for truth and justice is not [...]

The Central Bank’s governor Mario Vella has skipped the first meeting of the European Central Bank’s highest body – its governing council – chaired by the new president of the ECB Christine Lagarde. The meeting was held yesterday but Mario Vella skipped it, catching a plane to Frankfurt at around the time the meeting was [...]

Ian Refalo advised the government that there need be no separation between parliament and government. The head of the civil service, Mario Cutajar referred to that advice a few days ago when he gave his reasons for ignoring the recommendations from George Hyzler, Commissioner for Public Standards. Here is what Mario Cutajar said about what [...]

  A document published by Cyprus newspaper Politis shows an invoice by Henley & Partners’ real estate subsidiary demanding a payment of €650,000 into their Bank of Valletta account in Malta from Malaysian fugitive Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low. Jho Low has been named by the US Department of Justice for being at [...]

If you’ve ever told one of us you’re impressed by our courage, If you’ve ever sent us a cheque to keep us going, If you’ve ever shaken your head hidden behind your newspaper, If you’ve ever whispered to someone you trusted how disgusted you were, If you’ve ever sworn at the news on TV, If [...]

The regulator of the passports sales scheme found that what Jean Philippe Chetcuti bragged about when speaking to M6 TV journalists could not have happened. He does not have a 100% success rate when applying for passports. And, the regulator says, it’s “implausible” that he could do the nudge, nudge, wink, wink thing he said [...]

Updated 08:47 There's a good chance the 'Robert Musumeci' posts on Twitter that I wrote about below are from a fake profile. If they are, Robert Musumeci should say so. The possibility has been suggested to me by people fooled by the possibly fake profile before me. The fact is that they are not too [...]

A year ago today I paid tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia's foresight. I had found a post of hers from 2013. At the time, Yorgen Fenech let slip that he knew more than he should have and Daphne pretty much figured out from that quote that what we would eventually come to know as the [...]

Journalism unions in Italy are proposing a solution to people filing libel suits just to harass journalists. There are ways in which the problem there is worse than here. Criminal defamation still exists. So when someone files a police complaint because of something you've said or written, you're called to the station or the police [...]

Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona and Edward Scicluna will have to wait to find out which judge will hear their appeal from an order by a magistrate for a criminal inquiry to investigate their conduct when three public hospitals were sold. The judge on duty when they filed their appeal last Friday was Consuelo Scerri Herrera. [...]

Here's Karol Aquilina's tweet after Keith Schembri preferred to let the allegations of corruption against him stand than admit to much worse when under oath in court. Why did the #chicken cross the road? ? It was running away from its own libel suit. ?@keithaschembri #corrupt #crook pic.twitter.com/0Z5IhnREo2 — Karol Aquilina (@KarolAquilina) November 11, 2019

The Maltese phrase is “inqela b’żejtu”. He filed a libel suit against Simon Busuttil three years ago because Simon Busuttil accused him of being corrupt. He testified to sustain his claim of innocence on the 16 October 2017. Hours later, Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who caught him feathering his nest in Panama was killed [...]

Joseph Muscat and Adrian Delia skipped the national Remembrance Day ceremonies of this morning. Joseph Muscat quit the island so he can watch his Milan football club tonight. No one knows where Adrian Delia is but he’s dodging any and all activities on Sundays. Remembrance Day is not a vestige of colonialism. It is a [...]