Winter is here

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2023-10-24T08:15:47+02:00Tue, 24th Oct '23, 08:15|

The government’s statement after the most senior judges of the land ruled that “senior government officials” colluded in a fraud “to pump money from the nation’s coffers to the pockets of VGH” was as flaccid as a cold bath. ‘We didn’t wait for the sentence to take control of the hospitals,’ they squealed apparently congratulating [...]

GUEST POST: Injury, insult and a whole lot more

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2023-10-23T11:43:55+02:00Mon, 23rd Oct '23, 11:43|

So the Court of Appeals has pronounced itself on the Vitals/Steward Case, finding that, as everybody with half a brain cell knew, the whole deal was based on fraud. The ruling went further than that of the lower court, finding evidence of active collusion on the part of the Government officials involved. In addition, the [...]

Appeals Court finds “collusion of senior government officials” in hospitals sale; confirms Steward out

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2023-10-23T10:37:37+02:00Mon, 23rd Oct '23, 10:37|

The Appeals Court confirmed a lower court’s decision that Steward Health Care are to be thrown out and Karin Grech, Gozo General, and St Luke’s hospitals are to go back to the Maltese public. The Appeals Court departed from the first court’s decision, saying this wasn’t just a case of private interests cheating idiots working [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Winter is coming

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2023-10-23T06:04:48+02:00Mon, 23rd Oct '23, 06:04|

From my article in The Sunday Times yesterday:   "In November 2021, Times of Malta reported that Muscat received fat payments from a Swiss company, which in turn received millions from Steward Healthcare when they acquired the hospitals with his blessing. You see, VGH could not sell on the hospitals without the government’s permission. Under [...]

GUEST POST: When money talks, nobody checks the grammar

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2023-10-21T07:08:03+02:00Sat, 21st Oct '23, 07:08|

People who demolish and construct buildings are euphemistically termed “developers”. I say euphemistically because the definition of a developer is “a person or firm that improves raw land with labour and capital and arranges for utilities and essential services in order to sell sub-divided parcels of land or to build structures for rent and/or for [...]

Abortive cynicism

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2023-10-20T09:24:10+02:00Fri, 20th Oct '23, 09:24|

All political groupings in the European Parliament yesterday voted in a resolution on the rule of law in Malta. The resolution included an urging to introduce the right to abortion in our law which was a point the liberal grouping wanted added. Sources in the EP say that Labour MEP Cyrus Engerer pushed for the [...]

US Embassy: Daphne lives on in the fight she inspired

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2023-10-16T09:49:18+02:00Mon, 16th Oct '23, 09:49|

Statement today by the US embassy: On October 16, 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in a heinous attack because she took risks to expose corruption.  Today, six years after the murder of Ms. Caruana Galizia, justice has not been fully served. We condemn those who would employ violence to silence dissenting voices.  The United [...]

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