Fake websites designed to fool readers into thinking they're on manueldelia.com, or other news media websites including Newsbook, TVM, Net News, Lovin Malta, and Stradarjali.com, are this morning inaccessible and appear to have been struck down. Several website owners including myself have taken measures to attempt to push back on the act of deceit and [...]
From my article in today's The Sunday Times: "I am by no means the only journalist or activist to be targeted for isolation and to be discredited with lies. I’m sorry that this piece is going to be about me. Firstly, because my job is not to write an extended autobiography but to write about [...]
Over the last few rocky days I got many messages of friendship and support from my nearest and dearest. I also got a few messages of support from people I do not know who are anything but near, but wanted to be. This is one of them. I publish it here out of gratitude. Dear [...]
‘Journalists in Malta still remain at tremendous risk.’ Rebecca Vincent of Reporters Without Borders didn’t mince her words at the press conference the day after the publication of the Public Inquiry Report. She was emphatic about the dangers to journalists in Malta whose work is carried out in a hostile climate where harassment and threats [...]
The appeal against the Planning Authority (PA) vote of 10 June 2021 approving the second version of the db ITS project at Pembroke has been presented to the Environment & Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT). The objectors are three local councils: Pembroke, Swieqi and San Ġiljan, 9 NGOs and 10 individuals including Pembroke and Swieqi residents. [...]
The 2019 Corrupt Politician of the Year awardee is trying to make a comeback. He had been hibernating for many a month with his spouse informing us where they were holidaying through Instagram. But Joseph Muscat is too narcissistic to stay away from centre stage and suddenly decided that after more than four years, an [...]
The below podcast is an adaptation of a speech I delivered this morning at the invitation of KSU at the launch of their Erasmus+ project with the title 'Democracy Derailed?' If you prefer, scroll down to read the text of the speech instead. https://soundcloud.com/emanuel-delia-188931879/democracy-derailed/s-sqYMatneSqK Chair, Mr President, Thank you for inviting me to share some [...]
I’m still digesting it all and trying to deal with this with the police, lawyers and competent authorities so this is not a commentary on the subject. I’ll try to do that as soon as I can get back to work. But someone somewhere is pretending to be me and sending emails that look like [...]
Joe Brincat is on one of his quixotic time-wasting expeditions again. He filed a judicial protest today asking the State’s Advocate to conduct an inquiry into the conduct of the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry. There’s a lot of legal gobbledegook there to make his letter sound important and credible. It’s all a pile of bull [...]
There were many references to Keith Schembri in part two of Joseph Muscat’s interview with Times of Malta, published yesterday. This website’s review of part 1 is linked here. It wasn’t just about Keith Schembri having been his chief of staff, having been exposed for owning the Panama company expecting money from Yorgen Fenech, having [...]
This is a press conference delivered this morning by Repubblika's Robert Aquilina outside the police headquarters.
The Inland Revenue Service of the United States has listed the “potentially abusive use of the US-Malta tax treaty” as one of a “dirty dozen tax scams” warning American tax payers against using “abusive arrangements” to help Americans avoid tax. In a recent statement the IRS said it was “evaluating the issue to determine the [...]
The following story is in the current edition of Private Eye. The UK satirical magazine is not published electronically.
Yorgen Fenech’s lawyer posted on his Facebook wall a call for the police to prosecute me for, he says, attacking the credibility of Judge Giovanni Grixti to influence the outcome of Yorgen Fenech’s application for bail. I will let you know what happens, if anything happens. Yorgen Fenech’s lawyer is Charles Mercieca. He’s the guy [...]
One reading of that Joseph Muscat interview is that the man is now reduced to a Freddie Kruger character, quipping crackling irony as he burns in his final defeat, desperately wanting to have the last word, to sound menacing and dangerous, when he’s just ridiculous. Of all reasons anyone could give to enter public life, [...]
It is never too wise to use the comments in reaction to some news item in the online press as a measure of public opinion, let alone as an objective measure of fact. If we relied on comments boards, we’d have to conclude the entire country is made up of bloody-minded racists. Worse, if we [...]
Yorgen Fenech will continue to await trial in preventive custody in Kordin after Judge Giovanni Grixti denied his application for bail. The judge turned down the application saying the crimes Yorgen Fenech is charged with are very serious. Indeed, Yorgen Fenech was yesterday indicted for complicity in the wilful homicide of Daphne Caruana Galizia and [...]
While we wait for Giovanni Grixti to decide whether to grant Yorgen Fenech bail ahead of his trial for murder, let's call up one decision Giovanni Grixti took some time ago. Natius Farrugia, Mayor of Żurrieq, was fined by a Magistrate's court for leading a mob chasing Daphne Caruana Galizia in Rabat forcing her to [...]
Judge Giovanni Grixti who is expected to release his decision on whether to grant Yorgen Fenech's request for bail owns a boat he purchased from Yorgen Fenech's father in 2008. Spensierata is a 50 foot yacht that was transferred from George Fenech to Giovanni Grixti on 15 September 2008. The boat transfer is believed to [...]
It was odd of Judge Giovanni Grixti to decide to hear arguments on Yorgen Fenech’s request for bail this morning. He shouldn’t have had to. After all he’s guided very clearly by the law. The law says bail should not be granted if at the time the request is made or within a week after [...]