Guest post: Prosit-Proset Tassew Onorevoli Owen Bonnici: No Stone Left Unturned?

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2018-10-08T11:12:30+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 11:12|

By Lizzie Eldridge: Prosit-proset, Ministru, for your reply to my article published last Monday which described in detail our conversation of Tuesday 18th September 2018, only days after you gave direct orders for flowers and candles to be removed from the now barricaded monument in Great Siege Square. Oh, you ordered that to be boarded [...]

Adrian Delia’s onibaba

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2018-10-08T10:48:19+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 10:48|

That remark by Adrian Delia yesterday about the horror of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis teaching “our children” was not an accident. I am infuriated by people who try to guess which handler of Adrian Delia’s mishandled the situation.  Being cut off from civilisation all your life, having an isolated existence where you think American 1980s action [...]

But she’s passionate about it

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2018-10-08T10:06:41+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 10:06|

Simone Cini is, no doubt, a smart woman. Her time at Super 1, not always being as smart as her intellect should suggest, should not disqualify her from making headway in her career. She made it to Commissioner for Gender-Based and Domestic Violence, we now hear. The Sunday Times yesterday asked her what her credentials [...]

A year of fire

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2018-10-08T09:18:52+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 09:18|

Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb 51 weeks ago.  There are many hard hearts around us that rejoice at that fact. And many more barely polite enough to suppress their glee. And there are many who are indifferent as some are indifferent to people who drown at sea while still ramping up [...]

It’s your job to know

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2018-10-08T09:10:54+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 09:10|

After Edward Scicluna’s embarrassing admission that he had not picked up Vera Jourova’s message that Malta was about to be whipped hard by the EU Commission over its bad handling of banking regulation, the technocrats we pay to get Edward Scicluna to understand what he does not pick up for himself go to the local [...]

Viktoria Marinova: Another journalist has been killed

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2018-10-08T08:48:53+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 08:48|

Europe is a dangerous place for journalists. Fifty-one weeks after the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia, 30-year old TV journalist Viktoria Marinova’s body was found dumped in a park near the Danube in Bulgaria. Viktoria Marinova’s last work had been to interview two other Bulgarian journalists, Attila Biro and Dimitar Soyanov, who were arrested in [...]

Teachers know something about standing up to bullies

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2018-10-06T18:12:19+02:00Sat, 6th Oct '18, 18:12|

The Union of Teachers has forced the government to withdraw its reform package from Parliament. As Evarist Bartolo himself said, this is probably unprecedented. It’s not unheard of for a Minister to claw back on some rushed through legal notice. But ditching a legislative package that has made it halfway through the Parliamentary process is [...]

Constitutional Appeal Court confirms government breached fundamental human rights of Caruana Galizia family

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2018-10-05T11:38:42+02:00Fri, 5th Oct '18, 10:35|

The Constitutional Appeal Court has confirmed a lower court’s decision that the fact that Silvio Valletta led the investigation into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. It also confirmed the lower court’s order that Silvio Valletta must be excluded from the rest of the investigations. [...]

Eddie Aquilina: Owen Bonnici’s ministry

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2018-10-05T08:58:53+02:00Fri, 5th Oct '18, 08:58|

Valletta, the evening of 5th October 2018, before Owen's droogs walked by. From Eddie Aquilina's article in this morning's Times of Malta: "Surely Bonnici knows that the first minister to resign in Slovakia when Jan Kuciak was killed was the culture minister. There was no suggestion he had anything to do with the [...]

All hail Tony too?

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2018-10-04T15:39:01+02:00Thu, 4th Oct '18, 15:39|

https://youtu.be/_f7hkD4P9kA It is right for Adrian Delia, as leader of the PN, to accept the General Workers’ Union invitation to speak at their anniversary conference. It’s perfectly civil to do so. He’s also right to acknowledge their valuable contribution to the country’s history and well being. There’s no doubt that apart from the great sweeps [...]

Edward Scicluna, was the hope drunk?

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2018-10-04T14:27:30+02:00Thu, 4th Oct '18, 14:27|

  Read this extract from this morning’s digest (Brussels Playbook) in Politico. I’m reproducing here but here’s the link to the original. “DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT I: Malta’s Finance Minister Edward Scicluna was unpleasantly surprised when he opened Wednesday’s newspapers and read this FT story. In it, Justice Commissioner Vĕra Jourová announced she’s preparing to issue a binding order [...]

Freedom Lecture in honour of Daphne Caruana Galizia

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2018-10-09T08:17:33+02:00Wed, 3rd Oct '18, 14:24|

#Occupyjustice and this website are hosting a 'Freedom Lecture' to be delivered by the BBC's John Sweeney on Monday 15th October 2018 at at 18:45 at the University of Malta. Mr Sweeney has worked with The Observer newspaper, as well as the BBC programmes Panorama and Newsnight. Through the years Mr Sweeney’s work [...]

Free to shut you up

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2018-10-03T09:27:44+02:00Wed, 3rd Oct '18, 09:26|

Eddy Privitera has got the same briefing note of Joe Brincat, and others in the Labour Party, that are spinning the ‘freedom of speech” argument to the point of absurdity. They don’t mind sounding absurd if they take down with them arguments they cannot defeat. In his letter to Times of Malta Eddy Privitera says [...]

Anġlu Farrugia may be on to something

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2018-10-02T17:58:00+02:00Tue, 2nd Oct '18, 17:58|

I find Anġlu Farrugia’s motivation for blocking Karol Aquilina’s question in Parliament for Joseph Muscat to table the Egrant inquiry, exquisitely fascinating. You know, the man, strangely enough, maybe on to something. He says Karol Aquilina’s demand of Joseph Muscat regarding the Egrant inquiry is inadmissable “because the Prime Minister is not answerable to Parliament [...]

Italian Parliament convenes meeting to honour Daphne Caruana Galizia

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2018-10-02T16:22:31+02:00Tue, 2nd Oct '18, 16:21|

The Deputy President of the Italian lower house of Parliament, Maria Edera Spadoni from government coalition party Moviment Cinque Stelle, is hosting a meeting this Thursday dedicated to Daphne Caruana Galizia. The meeting will also pay tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s career of fighting corruption. The meeting is titled “Investigative Journalism, a pillar of democracy: [...]

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