The first thing Eddie Fenech Adami did after checking in into the Auberge de Castille on 10 May 1987 was book himself flights to Europe’s capitals. The great work of emerging from the iron curtain days of Dom Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici had begun. And a chunk of that work would be showing chanceries [...]
The below is Seb Tanti Burlò's take on John Dalli's mock indignation on this morning's Times of Malta. As with the best of cartoons, any further comment is unnecessary. Except perhaps that you should visit Seb's web space for a collection of his best.
Yesterday was a bit of a coming out of the shell moment for me. I never wanted this blogging business to be about me, especially after Daphne was killed and this bit of fun on the side became my life and my mission. I didn’t want to be speaking about Arriva which happened 10 years [...]
I got an unsolicited couple of messages this afternoon from a number I did not recognise. “Have the 60 million become 10 now? Stop being ridiculous.” And “You’d better tell us what you got out of Arriva among others.” That second message would be standard troll fare, but the first message was odd. So, I [...]
I can only hope the feedback after the second and final part of the interview I gave Jon Mallia is as encouraging as the feedback I got after the first. Sure, haters gonna hate. But what's life without some rabid trolls yapping at your ankles? If you haven't seen it yet, part 1 is linked [...]
We didn’t need a report from the European Commission to tell us the grotesque delays in court proceedings in this country are a threat to the rule of law. Justice delayed is justice denied is here a cliché. Consider the case of the “oil scandal”. On the eve of the 2013 elections, Malta Today exposed [...]
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This is a translation of Robert Aquilina's speech yesterday outside Police Headquarters. It was intended for an audience of one: the police chief. But you can read it as well. Scroll down for a video. From that tragic day, 16 October 2017, to today, we have come before the Police General Headquarters several times. We [...]
In 2013, Angelo Gafà recommended to his superiors in the police force that John Dalli is charged with trading in influence and bribery. A charge sheet was drawn up and filed in a recommendation to the police chief, at the time John Rizzo, who agreed that John Dalli should be charged. This website is privy [...]
We are rushing past the limits of bothering to be angry. Clayton Bartolo telling us that tourism will not be impacted by Malta’s downgrade to the red list of Covid danger destinations shows just how brazen these people are. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. And tourists will opt for a covid-red [...]
The government has been warned explicitly and publicly by the FATF not to underestimate or downplay the changes that need to be made for Malta to become a respectable player in the financial world again. In no uncertain terms, the government was told this wasn’t just a matter of changing laws. Changing laws is easy. [...]
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Silvio Valletta, Rosianne Cutajar, Lawrence Cutajar, Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri, Joseph Muscat, John Dalli, Joe Cuschieri, Edward Scicluna, Chris Cardona, Michelle Muscat, Carmelo Abela. All familiar names. All people who in theory landed in a lot of trouble when they were exposed for alleged wrongdoing. Some of them have been in the news for years. [...]
This is the first part of a long, very long interview, I gave Jon Mallia a few days ago. If you’re a subscribed sponsor of Jon’s podcast series you can watch the second part as well. If you aren’t, part 2 will be openly available this Thursday night. Since for most of the 4 and [...]
In September 2018, the Planning Authority (PA) took a vote on the Db proposal for a hotel-apartment block development at Pembroke. The vote went 10 to 4 in favour of the proposal. An NGO group, Pembroke Council and individuals who had lodged some 17,000 objections appealed to the PA Environment & Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT) [...]
Flowers grow back even after they are stepped on - Rosianne Cutajar MP Rosianne Cutajar who started as a newscaster on One TV in 2010, became Qormi’s Labour mayor in 2012 when she was 24-years old. Considered very close to the higher echelons of the then Labour leadership (led by Joseph Muscat and Keith [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "It is strange to me that we risk allowing the killing of Caruana Galizia to go by without gaining from that horrible loss at least some improvement for the protection of journalists. The only thing we can be sure of is that we can have another Keith [...]