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The National Audit Office investigated the construction of the Mater Dei Hospital. I use the word ‘investigated’ because they did. Investigation may have been their intent but at least in so far as the report repeatedly finds huge gaps in the information the office managed to gather, what the report appears to have determined is [...]
When writing about the conservation of Dom Mintoff’s “modernist traditional” Ħal Tarxien villa yesterday I thought we can take some comfort that his house will stay on while everything around will be converted into the bog standard apartment blocks that are covering the country. Not quite as it turns out. Dom Mintoff’s villa is zoned [...]
Earlier today I wrote that ‘ironic’ no longer works for what is happening around us. If you’re around my age you remember Jagged Little Pill. “Mr Play It Safe was afraid to fly/ He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye/ He waited his whole damn life to take that flight/ And as the [...]
This interview was first published in the original Italian as part of the "Malta Report" presented at the forty-second Anti-Mafia summit recently convened in Naples. A copy of the Malta Report published by the Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulla Criminalità Organizzata e le Mafie is here. Aldo Musci interviews Giuseppe Lumia (in past legislatures a member for [...]
Health warning. This is a long one. You don’t have to tell me it is. I know. I wrote it. If you have some time, here goes. The insidious character of the power that has taken hold of Malta is extremely easy to underestimate. Comparisons have been made with pre-war fascism and these are not [...]
Several thousand people gathered yesterday in Valletta called there by #occupyjustice and Awturi to demand truth and justice. It would be inconsistent with the principle that it does not matter how large the crowd is for truth to be true to say one is glad at the turnout. As Rachel Williams put it in her [...]
By Lizzie Eldrige. From her long series of Tales from the Land of Serenity. All this hullabaloo in the Land of Serenity when we are simply and quietly trying to go about our business as usual. For such a small and peaceful little haven of tranquility that simply likes to keep itself to itself as [...]
We are faced with some seriously disturbing questions. Read from a recent edition of La Repubblica (my translation): “At that interrogation of the 5th December another truth emerged that remained hidden for the last 6 months covered by embarrassed circumspection. George Degiorgio was made to listen to the phone-calls from his phone from that morning [...]
I don’t know what to expect from The Daphne Project. Starting today we will hear stories developed from the work of Daphne Caruana Galizia, cut short too soon. I do know what to expect from Joseph Muscat and his army. There will be lies, diversions, retorts, and baseless equivalencies. They don’t need to counter facts [...]
KPMG’s attempt at auto-absolution just does not work. It’s your bog standard ‘We did what we were supposed to do but we can’t be specific in answer to any question because we owe our customer the protection of their secrets’. KPMG may or may not see what’s happening here. They may or may not have [...]