Watch Malta’s institutions make sure everyone understands they are ignoring what the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry said about them. Consider TVM, the national broadcaster. The inquiry yesterday proposed in one of its recommendations that the Constitutional provisions on the Broadcasting Authority are changed because they are ineffective as they are. The reason they give for [...]

There’s a lot of fascinating detail in the inquiry report beneath the earth-shattering headlines about the State’s responsibility in the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Here’s an interesting point. The inquiry board was faced by refusals from Joseph Muscat and other former and present ministers in his governments refusing to answer questions or provide information [...]

The Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry board has concluded that Daphne was killed because of her work as a journalist. It found that Cabinet Members share responsibility for failing to act when the Panama Papers came out. It said the State must now recognise its failures of omission and commission with respect to the killing of [...]

As expected, the inquiry report is a treasure trove of recommendations, a blueprint for a raft of reforms, many of which civil society has been clamouring for, for some time, and some that clearly reflect the inquiry’s cool reflections during its months of activities. Some highlights in brief: The authorities must investigate the murder of [...]

Repubblika, #occupyjustice, and manueldelia.com are calling for a protest in Castille Place tonight from 19:00. The report of the independent inquiry into the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia confirms that: The State must shoulder responsibility for the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. There has been an extensive culture of impunity for high officials of the [...]

In brief, the inquiry set up to look into the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia found that: The State must shoulder responsibility for the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. There has been an extensive culture of impunity for high officials of the public administration, persons of trust, and a limited circle of politicians, business people, [...]

Prime Minister Robert Abela told the country this morning he’ll be publishing the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry report today and wants it debated in Parliament tomorrow. No one’s seen it yet. It follows almost 20 months of witnesses and documentation so it’s not likely to be a lightweight document. The haste appears a bit unseemly [...]

One of Arnold Cassola’s many complaints to Commissioner George Hyzler drew a blank recently. The standards czar was asked to check whether a religious convent built on government land used for paying tourists would have made for a better old people’s home than the one handpicked by Gozo Minister Clint Camilleri, the former Downtown hotel. [...]

Do read this article by PN leader Bernard Grech on today’s The Malta Independent. Since Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed, the PN’s leaders have struggled to speak on the subject without stings in the tail, mealy-mouthed qualifications, ambiguity, and sometimes actually preferring to side with those protecting and sheltering the killers rather than the victim [...]

Updated on 1 August 2021, 07:11. Follow this link to see reply sent by Chris Mifsud. I don’t know Chris Mifsud, who runs publicity house MPS. Though I run a small media outlet – this website – I do not field directly booked advertising. I could do with the money, but not with the strings [...]

Yesterday, Simon Mercieca wrote that “the Caruana Galizias”, to whom he refers in a manner that one would speak about a gang of outlaws, have reserved for them (by whom?) “the same privileges that are shown to the Mafiosi in Sicily. Identical special treatment no more no less.” Apart from the fact that I cannot [...]

When 10 days ago I read this article by Edward Zammit Lewis about how “we don’t SLAPP the media”, I wanted to burst. I knew then what his good mate Yorgen Fenech had been plotting to do to me. If a £70 million defamation suit filed by the Tumas Group against me in the UK [...]

Email correspondence between Yorgen Fenech and his publicist Chris Mifsud at MPS shows that the man who would be charged for ordering the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia hired UK lawyers ACK Law to consider “picking a victim” to stop reporting and commentary in Malta that could damage the business of his business empire. Yorgen [...]

There’s some debate about the methodology used in yesterday’s Sunday Times survey polling 50,000 votes ahead for the Labour Party if an election were to be held now. It seems the sample tended to be skewed towards people who voted PL in 2017 which may have had an impact on the final result. That may [...]

Sent in by someone who calls themselves Nimrod. Is anyone impressed by the shiny but lame recent campaign by the Partit Nazzjonalista to convince the electorate that they DO have a vision for Malta, they DO have a message, and they DO want the best for us all because bless them, they have full confidence [...]

Reading trolls' comments underneath one of the news reports covering the interview I gave Jon Mallia shows that the mafia's effort to convince the country it does not exist is entirely successful. Typically these are Laburisti with offended sensibilities that think the moniker "mafia" is a garden variety insult, a purely partisan cat call. So [...]

Silvio Zammit: …with a guaranteed proposal to lift the ban. Lobbyist: You can guarantee a lift of the ban? Is that what you said? Silvio Zammit: The proposal, the proposal, ok, and I can make you as well high-level meetings to end the rumours, and obviously these rumours will give you the guarantee that lifting [...]