Author: Mark Camilleri
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Alex Agius Saliba condemns Europe for “building weapons to kill people” after European Parliament votes on lead-hunting ban
Earlier this week, on Thursday, the European Parliament cleared the way for a ban on lead gunshot throughout Europe, following a vote in Strasbourg. Opposition to the ban raised by Malta, led to changes in the final proposal, with the full restriction now set to take effect following a seven-year transition period. The European Parliament…
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Energy Minister organises discussion at Tumas Group Hotel: Repubblika refuses to attend
Energy Minister Miriam Dalli’s ministry is organising just another propaganda event entitled “Sustainable Development Multi-Stakeholder Forum” at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Qawra on 12 November, to supposedly discuss Malta’s progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and its long-term sustainability strategy. The hotel is owned by Tumas Group, which is also one of…
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Home Affairs Minister meets with Chinese Defence Attaché
Here is the Home Affairs Minister Glenn Bedingfield casually meeting with China’s Defence Attaché in Malta, yesterday on Thursday, with the attaché wearing his full uniform. Senior Colonel Zhang Queran is the defence attaché for Malta but is posted in Rome, so he flew down to Malta for a scheduled meeting with the Minister. The…
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The Opposition Leader should set an example instead of goading the masses with Labour’s populist measures
Following the Finance Minister’s announcement that there will be no €1,000 super-bonus cheque this year, despite the promise made during the general election campaign, Opposition Leader Alex Borg is challenging the government to issue the cheques, while goading the electorate to hold it accountable for failing to deliver on its promise. The Opposition Leader should…
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On fiscal discipline and public propagandists
I am very glad that the Finance Minister is cracking jokes about chicken analogies with a government propagandist on the public broadcaster. This should give us an extraordinary and unique opportunity to have a deeper discussion on the fiscal dicipline that the Finance Minister purports to espouse. We are preparing a Freedom of Information Request…
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On the public broadcaster, we are now joking about public finances with propagandists
From calculators to Bibles and now onto chicken. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana seems to be on a mission to turn the serious discourse about public finances into a theatrical script and what best to culminate into this degeneracy than with the publicly-paid Labour propagandist Saviour Balzan who runs a media house fully subsidised from tax…
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Mark Mallia plants stories in the press to put a lid on Labour’s scandal at the General Conference
The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Mark Mallia is one of the Prime Minister’s most loyal members of his inner-circle and he is also involved in political party machinations apart from doing government work. Following the scandal about the potentially fraudulent election of Wayne Sammut‘s to the Labour Party’s Executive Committte at the general conference,…
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Labour’s gutter society on the public broadcaster
There is this widely held belief among people who are furious about Yorgen Fenech’s verdict in court, and many of these people are so normal and well-meaning that they think the Prime Minister and his acolytes were shocked and surprised by Yorgen Fenech’s verdict. This genuine surprise is being confused with naivety, though, since matters…
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The Sicilians denied the Mafia existed until the term “Mafia” was codified into Law
The speech in Parliament by Prime Minister Robert Abela on Monday is very significant historically, but not in a good sense. The Prime Minister repeated the historical fallacy of denying the existence of the Mafia: a denial that is functional and serves the Mafia itself, which wants to pretend and assume that it does not…
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Education Faculty at University of Malta promotes its participation at the Labour Party General Conference
The Faculty of Education at the University of Malta is promoting a post on Facebook about one of its members giving a speech at the Labour Party General Conference last Sunday. The speech was given by Karen Mugliett, who is, ironically, the wife of former Nationalist MP Jesmond Mugliett. Or perhaps it is not ironic…
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Economy Minister presents social enterprise bill – but definition of social enterprise remains missing
Yesterday in Parliament, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri presented a new law regulating social enterprises. This new legal classification, the Minister said, will be used by organisations which operate commercially but not for profit including in the social and cultural fields. The bill was presented yesterday in parliament and can be read here but the definition…
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BREAKING: Finance Minister blasts Joseph Muscat over the national airline – COLA at €5
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana is currently being interviewed by The Times in a public event and has made a very surprising statement on the crisis that is currently the national air line KM Malta Airlines – the successor of Air Malta. The Finance Minister made a reference to Joseph Muscat as he said that there…