Tag: Clifton Grima
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Taking the Mickey out of the Venice Commission
The new Minister for Justice, Clifton Grima, held a meeting with the Venice Commission yesterday and stated that he will be working with the Commission to strengthen the independence of Malta’s specialised tribunals. You don’t need to work to make tribunals “more independent”: they are either independent or they are not. Independence, according to the…
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Justice Minister affirms that a government-led investigation is better than a Police investigation
I’m a bit lost for words over the government’s ongoing, blatant and in-your-face irregular behaviour in addressing the use of the internet in prison by mafia member and murderer Adrian Agius. The Justice Minister yesterday told Net News that he prefers a government-led investigation instead of having the Police investigate. So basically, the government is…
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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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No permission requested by Sandra Gauci to speak about behaviour issues in schools
Prior to giving an interview to Il-Każin about growing behaviour issues in schools, ADPD – Green Party Leader, Sandra Gauci, did not request a permission from the Ministry of Education. Educators have been forced by the Ministry of Education to request a permission every time they speak to the press about issues related to the…
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Exclusive: Ministry officials actively silencing educators over school issues
The Minister of Education’s policy over the ongoing debate about children’s behaviour issues in schools, is to silence educators and prevent information from being provided to the press. The Maltese Herald has been reliably informed by various sources that top officials of the Minister for education, Clifton Grima, are putting pressure heads of schools and…
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The Ministry of Education responds to concerns by local publishers with measures adopted more than four years ago
I will reserve my professional opinion on the book industry at the right time and the right place, but what I will say for now about the recent article published by the Times of Malta on the ongoing collapse of the local book industry, is that the Ministry of Education replied to the Times of…
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Ex-Judge Antonio Mizzi appointed by the Minister Clifton Grima to “investigate” €2.3 million in stolen funds from MCAST
In order to publicly and shamelessly cover-up himself and his own trusted officials, the Education Minister Clifton Grima appointed the ex-Labour Judge Antonio Mizzi to supposedly investigate MCAST’s and the bureuacratic failings that led to a financial manager steal up to €2.3 million funds. Clearly, what should be pointed out in this case is that,…
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MCAST: a total failure in basic management
The case of Francine Farrugia is not just the result of a complex fraud that enabled her to siphon off up to €2.3 million from MCAST into her own pockets: it is also a systematic failure caused by a management crisis stemming from the very top of the Ministry of Education and extending to the…
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Education Minister Clifton Grima says it is correct to censor teachers
While being confronted by a teacher during Jon Mallia’s show “Il-Każin”, Education Minister Clifton Grima said that the government is just following normal procedure by censoring teachers and compelling them to ask for permission to speak to the media. He also said that it was the right thing to do because comments on the education…
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More on the difference between headlines and reality: “Rewriting the history books”
More on the contrasting reality that exists afar from the positive headlines on Malta’s history and prehistory. When they said they were going to “rewrite the history books” I was genuinely confused about whether there has been a swathe of new and recent publications that I was unaware of. This is a digital copy of…
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Labour’s war against its intellectuals has cost the country history and culture
The process that stifled free thought in the Labour Party came gradually but very effectively as a result of the 2019 national and political crisis. Today, the Labour Party is experiencing the negative effects of its own authoritarianism and criminality by lacking the culture and intellectuals a party needs to express its history in the…
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Head of Ethics at the Ministry of Education cries “character assassination”: calls us a blog
After we pointed out that Roger Tirazona, the Head of Ethics at the Ministry of Education, was spreading Russian disinformation and vilifying Ukrainians, he wrote a short paragraph crying “character assassination” and described this media outlet as a “blog”. Somehow, he brought in Daphne Caruana Galizia into the whole thing, as if her writings about…
