Author: Mark Camilleri
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Watch: Joseph Muscat campaigns for Bank of Valletta Director James Grech
In more news from the Labour Party’s Banana Republic, the disgraced ex-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is campaigning for a Labour Party election candidate who is also a board of director of Bank of Valletta. Joseph Muscat has featured heavily in the current election campaign and has endorsed a number of Labour Party candidates. The incident…
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Malta wakes up to traffic gridlock as traffic crisis remains ignored in general election campaign
Malta woke up to traffic gridlock today with major roads arteries blocked. Traffic disruption was particularly severe in the northern corridor between Mellieħa, St Paul’s Bay, Burmarrad and Mosta after parts of the St Paul’s Bay bypass and sections of the Coast Road experienced closures and diversions. Heavy congestion was also reported across the Marsa–Valletta…
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Meet Deputy Prime Minister Clyde Caruana
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has built a reputation for fiscal prudence and has so far been seen as a voice of reason in a cabinet of ministers riddled with corruption, crime, cover-ups and conspiracies. He seems to have lost his conservative composure during this general election campaign as he rolled out his new expansive fiscal…
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Clyde Caruana goes on fire in Imqabba: “The Labour Party is the only party of change”
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana gave his most fierce and and strongest ever public speech in his political career stirring the crowds with an ideological discourse lauding the principles of social justice adhered to by the Labour Party. He lauded the Labour Party’s measures which are helping the masses from electricity and fuel subsidies, pension increases…
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It’s not a bitter pill: it’s an existential threat
I’m linking MaltaToday’s editorial published today as a follow-up reference to my criticism. There are two major errors that MaltaToday does with this article. First of all, according to MaltaToday, increasing libel damages is “a bitter pill to swallow” — maybe for them, as they depend on public financing. For the independent press, which does…
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The Labour Party opens a smear campaign against Conrad Borg Manché
The Labour Party has started an all-out smear campaign against the former Labour Mayor of Gżira, Conrad Borg Manché, who is contesting the general election with the Nationalist Party. I am recording this for posterity, given that the Labour Party is proposing to increase libel damages over this same kind of behaviour, and is the…
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From one distressed shopping mall to another: restructuring for Shoreline is in the offing
There is a high probability that Shoreline Mall and its complex financial structure are going to be restructured, and not just because the company is unable to sustain its bond payments or because of chronic liquidity pressures. Shoreline Mall may also be heading toward restructuring because its shareholders recently hired a director who apparently specialises…
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Syphoning profits from distressed assets? The red flags with Shoreline Mall keep counting
Digging deeper into the financing structure of Shoreline Mall, the red flags keep mounting as the combined nature of the accounts gives the impression of a textbook government-backed real-estate grift built on layered financing structures. Shoreline Mall plc’s bonds are distressed, with no guarantee that bond payments will be made, while the company appears dependent…
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Why doesn’t Joseph Muscat become Labour Party leader again right away?
It’s so highly unusual that a previous party leader features so strongly in the general election campaign that Joseph Muscat is starting to look like Vladimir Putin promoting his little and intoxicated Medvedev-like puppet. Two things are basically happening here. The Labour Party is rehabilitating Joseph Muscat and effectively white-washing his past, implying he has…
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Will the Institute of Maltese Journalists please stand up?
I’m not expecting for the Institute of Maltese Journalists (IĠM) to stand up and take a strong stand against the Labour Party’s pledge to increase punitive measures against journalists, but it should. The major issue here is that individuals who ought to provide stiff opposition to the Labour Party’s pledges, are running propaganda campaigns for…
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Labour Party pledges to indoctrinate propagandists via “PBS Campus Hub”
As part of its new proposals against the free press, the Labour Party intends to create what it calls the “PBS Campus Hub”. The Government and the Public Broadcasting Services have been violating multiple articles and principles of the European Media Freedom Act. With regars to PBS, the government is breaching the Act by using…
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The Labour Party prepares to mount its an attack against the free press: proposes tougher libel penalties against journalists
Yesterday, the Labour Party gathered its General Conference to approve its election manifesto. The manifesto includes a pledge to increase punitive measures against journalists by increasing libel damages. The measure is being pledged by stealth via very diplomatic wording but the intention is very explicit. There has been no discussion or fancy press conference to…
