The rapporteur appointed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to monitor what is happening in Malta has tweeted his reaction to story in the news media today published in The Sunday Times on this website. And he asks the question that only the authorities can, and must answer. What we have learnt [...]
The Sunday Times’s story this morning is very important and deserves analysis. We must think about why we’re reading the story now. The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia happened two years ago. A year ago Michael Farrugia gave, then retracted, the information that the police had identified suspects who were behind the order to the [...]
This series started out as an investigation into the American University of Malta-based on an interview with an ex-staff member who was part of the mass firings. [See When Is a University Not a University] However, it soon opened out on to the wider landscape of corruption saturating Malta. Part 1 of this series is [...]
I have spoken at length with the staff of Gozo bishop's Mario Grech and I am persuaded given their declarations to me, including the one below, that there is no basis for a claim made in a guest post I posted this week, linked here. I regret the inconvenience caused to the bishop by this [...]
The Chetcuti Cauchi law firm missed its slots at the Delta conference in a sign that the M6 hidden camera scandal has rocked one of the most successful passport selling agencies in the country. Priscilla Mifsud, senior partner at the firm, missed her panel seat at the conference this morning leaving an all-male panel made [...]
Statement by Repubblika: Repubblika expresses its concern at yesterday’s ruling by the Court of Appeal presided by Judge Giovanni Grixti quashing the earlier decision of Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit to order an inquiry into allegations of criminal responsibility by Edward Scicluna, Chris Cardona and Konrad Mizzi in the sale of three public hospitals to VGH. [...]
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The Times of Malta today quotes Konrad Mizzi saying he regrets setting up a company through Mossack Fonseca in Panama. Of course, he does. If he set it up with any other bent law firm in any other banana republic without a John Doe spilling the beans his political life would have been much easier. [...]
Repubblika, #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com have come together to organise events during the month of October 2019 to mark two years since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The truth about Daphne’s murder is not yet known. No one has been convicted of her murder yet and no one has even been charged for planning, [...]
The Court of Criminal Appeal has overturned a magistrate’s order for an inquiry to look into the conduct of ministers Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona and Edward Scicluna in the sale of three public hospitals to VGH. The decision, which came more than six weeks after the Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit’s original order to start an [...]
Somewhere on the way to Brussels, Helena Dalli was blinded by a bright light and fell off her horse with the deep voice of truth ringing in her ears. She realised she was persecuting the wrong people and now says if she were Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri and Joseph Muscat she 'would have done things [...]
I hesitate to write this. Explaining feminism to women is the ultimate form of mansplaining. I don’t like being the patronising sod who insists on explaining the off-side rule when they’re not too sure of it themselves. But when Helena Dalli described the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia as ‘femicide’, it rankled. I suppose etymologically [...]
(Updated with Editorial Note at 21:50) Editorial Note: The commentary below alleges that Bishop Grech arranged for the sale of a diocese-owned apartment to be sold to a relative of his. Its author insists they base their claim on multiple sources. However, I was contacted by Fr Eddie Zammit, personal assistant of Bishop Grech and personally [...]
Must we be treated like idiots every step of the way? Two days ago, security guards at the university silenced a protest by Moviment Graffitti on the university campus. It looked at first like it might have been the initiative of a low-ranking security guard. But then the university issued a statement saying why it [...]
Adrian Delia did some press-ups this morning. And yesterday there was this. If you live in this country, this, I'm sorry to say, is your life. U ejja? Mela!
Congratulations Adrian Delia. I couldn't do one of those to save my life. I'm sure it will come in handy in the upcoming budget debate.
A Magistrate has referred lawyer Jean-Philippe Chetcuti to the Chamber of Advocates because of a breach of the code of ethics for lawyers. Magistrate Caroline Farrugia Frendo referred the senior partner of the Chetcuti Cauchi law-firm in the wake of Repubblika’s request for an inquiry into alleged trading in influence in the sale of Maltese [...]
Event organised by Repubblika, #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com Daphne Caruana Galizia’s writing attracts continued attention, both in Malta and abroad. What are those aspects of form, style and pitch that give her writing its power? Aside from their political impacts, why might they invite closer commentary and analysis? And how do they connect with – and [...]
La Repubblica and Daphne Project journalist Carlo Bonini, former BBC Newsnight and Panorama Reporter John Sweeney and myself have co-authored a book telling the story of Daphne Caruana Galizia: her life and work, her assassination and what has happened since then. Telling the story of Daphne is telling the story of Malta. During the past [...]
If we are judged by the nature of our enemies, then Daphne Caruana Galizia should be remembered as a hero of our time. She was Malta’s most fearless journalist until someone with money and power decided that she should be silenced forever. Her assassination was a brutal blow to anyone who cares about the [...]