I was today a guest in Rome at the headquarters of the national press union, the Federazione Nazionale della Stampa Italiana, at a press conference headlined "Two years without Daphne Caruana Galizia". Speakers at the event included Sandro Ruotolo who showed his film for fanpage.it on Malta. A version subtitled in English is being released [...]
Two years have gone by and still the world is in the dark about by whom, why and when this gruesome deed was planned. It is unacceptable that it should take so long to fathom out who ordered and paid for this murder. It is also unacceptable that no truly independent Inquiry has been set [...]
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This incredibly moving appearance by Matthew, Andrew and Paul Caruana Galizia was broadcast Sunday night.
This morning’s report in The Sunday Times (see below) about how Joseph Muscat reacted after he, his wife, his assistant and two of his ministers received uncomfortable questions ahead of the book that comes out tomorrow, is important. It shows a prime minister who has learnt nothing and refuses to learn anything. Our letters were [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The smoke clears and the rubble buried under the deafening noise of the explosion that killed her becomes more distinct. Through the morass of obfuscation, the ugliness of it all is becoming clearer. "It’s starting to make sense. "They sought to look like the innocent flower but [...]
Jean Philippe Chetcuti had said he was mistranslated on the M6 broadcast that dubbed his sales pitch to an undercover reporter pretending to inquire about a passport for a his client with a criminal record. Now we can hear it in its full uncompromised and untranslated glory. Jean Philippe Chetcuti starts by accurately explaining the [...]
Italian prime time TV show Che tempo che fa will this Sunday host Daphne Caruana Galizia's three sons for a live interview. They will be hosted together with journalist Roberto Saviano on Sunday 13 October from 9pm in an interview by Fabio Fazio. They will speak about Saviano's first book in his new Munizioni series [...]
A vigil for Daphne Caruana Galizia is being held at Saint Martin Tower, 31, Market Street, Sydney 2000. The event is being held at 6pm on 16 October. More details here.
Labour trolls have been sent out to blame the likely exit of HSBC from Malta’s economy on its entrance in Malta in the last century. ‘Kellu raġun Alfred Sant,’ they say. U morru tnejjku, tridux. Of course, the manner of HSBC’s entry into the Maltese market is as irrelevant an explanation for its likely exit [...]
Read this court report. Two judges considered appeals from decisions about the same article. The question was whether a The Malta Independent article about Keith Schembri and about the front-man of Keith Schembri’s businesses while the prince of darkness graces us with his wisdom as prime minister’s chief of staff is defamatory. One court last [...]
At last year's first Daphne Caruana Galizia memorial lecture John Sweeney recalled a journalist he knew, Anna Politkovskaya, who 12 years before had been killed because of her journalism. Lorenzo Frigerio from Liberainformazione writes a brilliant piece drawing parallels between the two exemplary journalists, women, victims of the politics which they challenged. Take the time [...]
The event is being held at D-zóna, Pobřežní 8, 186 00 Prague, Czech Republic. https://youtu.be/2SIUgzpNtj0
The Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana is holding a memorial meeting in Rome called "Two Years Without Daphne Caruana Galizia". The meeting is being held at the FNSI headquarters at the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 349 in Rome at 11am. Journalists are invited to meet to ask Europe to keep an eye on Malta where freedom [...]
The Vienna Press Club together with RSF Reporters Without Borders and the International Press Institute are hosting a vigil outside the Maltese Embassy in Vienna at the Opernring 5/1, A-1010. The event is being held on 16 October at 10am.
I posted on this website details of commemorative vigils marking two years since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia in London, Brussels and Valletta. A vigil is also being held in Berlin at 6.30 pm outside the Maltese embassy at Klingelhöfer Strasse 7, 10785. More details are available here. Here's the program of events being organised in [...]
11 October 2019. 13:42. Adds Correction about bail at the end of the article. Preliminary hearings before a date is set for the trial of Alfred and George Degiorgio and Vincent Muscat for the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia are scheduled for 31 October, more than two years after the journalist and mother of three [...]
Sent in by Robbie under this morning's post 'When Joseph Muscat's government was ok with immunity to turn state's evidence'. A well written piece. Gone are the days when top public officials have to be whiter than white. Those were the days of Prime Ministers Fenech Adami and Gonzi when the interests of the nation [...]
