Court hears pleas in Repubblika’s case for judicial independence

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2019-05-06T18:07:44+02:00Mon, 6th May '19, 18:07|

The First Hall of the Civil Court today heard arguments from lawyers for Repubblika and the Attorney General on the case brought by Repubblika challenging the recent appointment of six new members of the judiciary under rules the Venice Commission found meant Malta’s judiciary was not independent. The Court heard arguments from Simon Busuttil and [...]

Konrad Mizzi refused permission to appeal decision to allow Repubblika and Simon Busuttil to intervene in his human rights complaint

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2019-05-06T17:59:02+02:00Mon, 6th May '19, 17:59|

The Constitutional Court turned down a request by Konrad Mizzi’s lawyers today to allow him to appeal from its earlier decision to allow Repubblika and MP Simon Busuttil to intervene in his case claiming his human rights are breached by the law that allowed Repubblika and Simon Busuttil to file a complaint he broke the [...]

Pelin Unker prison sentence quashed

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2019-05-07T17:19:23+02:00Mon, 6th May '19, 17:45|

Pelin Unker with MEP David Casa and Repubblika President Marion Pace Asciak. (16.03.2019) Maltese MEP and free speech campaigner David Casa announced earlier today in a tweet that Turkish journalist Pelin Unker has had her 13-month prison sentence for defamation quashed by the Turkish superior courts. Unker had been convicted of defamation after [...]

GUEST SERIES: Malta politics, past, present and future (2)

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2019-05-06T17:38:25+02:00Mon, 6th May '19, 17:38|

Continues from yesterday's guest article on "the psychology of the Labour movement". The paranoia of the socialist high priest is phenomenal. Any venial sin of the infidels is magnified into a cardinal sin that must be severely punished. This because it is an act of aggression against the socialist god’s metaphysical body made up of [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES LEADER: Will high courts come of age?

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2019-05-05T20:36:42+02:00Sun, 5th May '19, 20:36|

If you haven't yet found time to read this today, please do so now. Tomorrow our case in front of the Court continues. Just shy of 20 months ago then Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri said in his remarks that we should not expect miracles from Judges and Magistrates. After all, they can only deal with [...]

GUEST SERIES: Malta politics, past, present and future (1)

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2019-05-07T08:21:37+02:00Sun, 5th May '19, 20:28|

This is a 13-part series written by a team of writers known to me. The series will continue tomorrow. Part 1: The Psychology of the Labour Movement Alan Parsons Project's cryptic lyrics of the ‘Eye in the Sky’ song describe the condescending conversation between the corrupt secular high priest of a state and one of [...]

GUEST POST: The argument for multiple parties in Malta

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2019-05-05T20:11:12+02:00Sun, 5th May '19, 20:11|

Sent in by someone known to me. First-time contributor to this site. I do recommend you visit the sites marked as 'further reading' in the text. For as long as I can remember since independence Malta has never had a third party in parliament arguably until Partit Demokratiku came along. I am personally a supporter [...]

GUEST SERIES: Malta in the EU (3)

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2019-05-04T17:13:24+02:00Sat, 4th May '19, 17:13|

Continues from Part 2 published yesterday. Written by a guest writer known to me. The incumbent Nationalist MEPs have done a good job in protecting Malta and its economy from Labour’s rapacious beast. They have attempted  to show the EU that it is  a group of corrupt politicians that are the problem, not the Maltese [...]

16 May: Vigil for Truth and Justice

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2019-05-16T19:05:58+02:00Sat, 4th May '19, 11:03|

Nineteen months after Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated, justice has not been served. We must continue to demand it. Join Repubblika, #occupyjustice and this website at the Great Siege Memorial in Valletta on 16 May 2019 at 19:30.

World Press Freedom Day

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2019-05-03T15:54:25+02:00Fri, 3rd May '19, 15:54|

The BBC featured this magnificent article by Matthew Caruana Galizia on World Press Freedom Day. "Supporters of the government openly celebrated the assassination, reminding me of those who celebrated the shooting of Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink," Matthew Caruana Galizia wrote. "Others insinuated that I had planned the murder myself, or that my mother had [...]

‘Low quality’ ‘rubbish collectors’

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2019-05-03T16:20:28+02:00Fri, 3rd May '19, 10:21|

The pervasive, rampant, bloody-minded racism of this country is breathtaking and it is led from the very top. Joseph Muscat knew that remark he made yesterday during his debate with Adrian Delia about foreigners picking up rubbish while native Maltese work as doctors in air-conditioned rooms (having their rubbish picked up by the foreigners) was [...]

GUEST SERIES: Malta in the EU (2)

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2019-05-03T10:19:25+02:00Fri, 3rd May '19, 10:19|

Continues from Part 1 published yesterday. Written by a guest writer known to me. In just three years Labour has managed to undo much of the constructive work successive Nationalist administrations carried out in three decades. Labour’s Malta has now become the Venezuela of Europe. The West was relieved by Chavez’s death but the continuation [...]

Do you feel proud yet?

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2019-05-02T12:56:27+02:00Thu, 2nd May '19, 12:56|

At Zurich airport today. Your identity, your heritage, your culture, your nationhood, your pride, your citizenship. Put a price on it and let them take it away.

World Press Freedom Day: Protest in Rome

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2019-05-02T12:53:52+02:00Thu, 2nd May '19, 12:53|

On World Press Freedom Day tomorrow, I’ll have the honour to speak about the life and work of Daphne Caruana Galizia at a public sit-in protest organised by the Italian National Press Federation (FNSI) at the Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome just outside the offices of European institutions in the Italian capital. Other speakers at [...]

Mannequins on the move

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2019-05-02T12:32:42+02:00Thu, 2nd May '19, 12:32|

You see a news story like this on the national broadcaster about a man who marked May Day with 11 mannequins outside his main door presumably discarded by a factory showroom selling corporate uniforms or a second rate sex shop whose line of blow-up dolls has been withdrawn because of reported spontaneous combustion … And [...]

Jurassic Park

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2019-05-02T12:09:21+02:00Thu, 2nd May '19, 12:09|

Today we start our sixteenth year as members of the European Union. On 30th April 2004, if you asked me to picture what hell for me would look like, I would have said it would be an eternity of this before my eyes. More fool me for thinking two days later that future was no [...]

Making things worse

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2019-05-02T12:05:08+02:00Thu, 2nd May '19, 12:02|

Minister Owen Bonnici said today he’s publishing a bill to split the prosecutorial from the advisory role of the Attorney General. He says he’s implementing the recommendations of the Venice Commission but in reality, he’s doing no such thing. He’s staying clear of all the material suggestions the Venice Commission has made, making this a [...]

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