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 [...]
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 [...]
I hate sounding like some right-wing law and order bible basher. But I think 66-year old men who use their authority to violently sexually assault 22-year old women and seek to justify forcing oral sex on their victim as some form of professional requirement, should go to prison. In his mind, John Suda still believes [...]
The highest court of the land confirmed a lower court’s decision that a husband of a government minister has no place investigating her and her colleagues for a political murder. However zealous Silvio Valletta can be, he is too motivated not to get to the bottom of the crime for there to be any credible [...]
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 [...]
The prime minister does not work for a different government than Owen Bonnici. So he can’t be neutral in a court case between a private citizen - me - and his Minister for Culture. His comments to the press today saying it was for the courts to determine whether a protest in front of the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chris Cardona never testified in open court to back his claim Daphne Caruana Galizia slandered him when she said he was in three-way sex with a paid prostitute while on duty on government business. But when you file a libel suit you take an oath that you know your claim to be true. Not that [...]
Joe Gerada, the second man in a three way sex orgy in a German brothel with Chris Cardona and a paid prostitute has withdrawn the two libel suits he filed against Daphne Caruana Galizia when she first alleged the occurrence. With this predictable action of Chris Cardona’s friend and paid advisor (paid by you, not [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
Press release by #Reżistenza: It is a basic principle universally acknowledged that States should promote the common good over the illegitimate interests of the few. A State which fails to do so loses its authority. The sale by the Maltese Government of the land which, until a few months ago, was occupied by the Institute [...]
I will say what I think even if I’m the only one to say it. Let that piece of supreme self-assuredness hang there for a second and think about the implications. Daphne Caruana Galizia often had to think about being alone, though from what I know of her she did not doubt her own convictions. [...]
By Lizzie Eldridge On the afternoon of Tuesday 18th September 2018 – two days after I’d spent the night protecting flowers and candles from a possible ruthless assault by the government-controlled forces of the Cleansing Services Department – I had the (mis)fortune to bump into Owen Bonnici, the Minister for Justice and Culture, on Republic [...]
The Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) is honouring Daphne Caruana Galizia and Slovakian Ján Kuciak posthumously with a “Golden Victoria 2018” for press freedom. The publishers said in a statement that the journalists' assassinations following their work clearly demonstrate the consequences of the rising global threats towards journalists even within the EU. However, the [...]