Tag: Byron Camilleri
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Serial criminal and most corrupt man of the year to give a speech at the Police Minister’s rally
If it wasn’t enough that disgraced ex-Prime Minister ha been heavily featured in this general election campaign, Joseph Muscat is going to give a speech at the rally of the Home Affairs Minister, Byron Camilleri. The Home Affairs Minister is responsible over the Police, which is run by Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa, who is currently…
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Interior Minister announces new on the spot fines for foreigners including irregular immigrants
Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has announced new regulations allowing authorities to issue immediate on-the-spot fines to foreign nationals who do not reside in Malta, including tourists and irregular immigrants, for a range of offences committed while in the country. The measures, which will come into force on 1 June through a legal notice, will…
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Home Affairs Minister inaugurates football stadium plans with Joseph Muscat: money to come from Golden Passports fund
According to the press release issued by the government today, the link between Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri and the announcement of plans to build a new football stadium in Marsa stems from the fact that the project will be funded through revenues generated by the now-defunct golden passports scheme. The minister responsible for passports…
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Police Minister announces new football stadium with serial money-laundering criminal suspect
There’s a very big gap between what the Prime Minister and the Labour Party are trying to project and the society that they are actually building. Earlier today, the Minister for Education and Sports and the Home Affairs Minister made a surprise announcement along with disgraced ex-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat that a new football stadium…
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Police intensify road checks as government tables drunk-driving reforms backed by Employers’ Association
Police, assisted by LESA officials, have continued stepping up routine traffic inspections across Malta, uncovering widespread breaches of road regulations. During overnight operations in Ħaż-Å»ebbuÄ¡, Marsa, Msida and St Julian’s, officers caught four drivers under the influence of alcohol and seven others driving without a valid licence. In the same checks, 17 vehicles were found…
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Home Affairs Minister announces new reform to introduce effective prison sentences for road deaths caused by drunk-driving
Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has just announced that the government will be tabling a reform in parliament which will introduce effective prison sentences for those who are found guilty of causing death with drunk-driving. The government is introducing this reform following public outcry over a young man with a Maserati who killed a fast-food…
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Tensions rise between the EU and Khalifa Haftar’s rump dictatorship over blackmail with migrants and maritime borders
Following its visit to Libya’s capital Tripoli to discuss migration, the EU delegation flew to Benghazi but was told to turn away upon arrival at Benina International Airport. The EU delegation was composed of EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, Maltese Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and…
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The cosmetic transfer of the National Development Social Fund
The National Development and Social Fund, which received up to 30% of the proceeds from Malta’s Golden Passport scheme, has been placed under the responsibility of the Ministry for Home Affairs, Byron Camilleri. It was previously under the responsibility of the Prime Minister and it would probably make no difference in the future outcome of…
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Byron Camilleri to stay on as Minister of Home Affairs
Earlier today there have been various press reports about Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri losing his portfolio. The Maltese Herald has confirmed that this was never the case and Byron Camilleri was never intended to have his portfolio changed. He was neither offered a different portfolio. Byron Camilleri is to remain as the Home Affairs…
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Securing the Nation with loyal Labour Party appointees: Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri
Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri is doubling down on his insistence that he has done the right thing by not resigning: I tried to find alternative words to describe what he is actually trying to say, but I can’t describe it otherwise. He’s in the ridiculous position of having to explain why he is still…
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The deported witnesses of the Identity Malta ID-Card Racket will be asked to testify online
Yesterday, following the publication of this article on the deportees who were also suspects of the Identity Malta Id-Card racket, a government official sent me a message to reassure me that these witnesses will be sought to testify to the Court online via webcam. Supposedly, this should have been reassuring to the fact that the…
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Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri deported two witnesses of the Identity Malta case
While the government is trying to downplay the Identity Malta scandal, where public officials ran a racket of fraudulent ID cards to third-country nationals, it may be good to remember that the investigation was prompted by Jason Azzopardi. There are also signs that the government was not very enthusiastic in seeing a fully-fledged case and…
