Tag: Rent-seeking
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This is classic Maltese rent-seeking
The story about the Fortina Group published by Amphora Media, about the group flipping a public property for a 500% return in just a matter of weeks is a textbook example of Maltese historical rent-seeking. This kind of method has been repeated in Malta decades after decade enriching Malta’s monopolists and traditional land-owners. The Fortina…
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A history of feudal and rent-seeking economics
If the Labour government follows through on reclaiming Manoel Island from MIDI after its failure to fulfil contractual obligations, it would mark the end of a deal that stands as a textbook example of Malta’s long history of rent-seeking by some of the country’s most powerful business families. The public land deal by which MIDI’s…
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Here’s Darren Casha behind Brandon Pisani looking at his collapsing construction site
I haven’t yet got hold of the planning application of the construction site that has partially collapsed onto the neghbouring property, but it seems that Darren Casha has something to do with it given that he went to inspect it soon after it had collapsed. Darren Casha of MedAsia fame was featured in NuxellinaLeaks and…
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Co-opting GZVH Adovcates into the Labour Party’s rent-seeking regime
The story of GZVH Advocates and its relationship with the Labour Party is not unique and it’s the story of many other lawyers who were co-opted by the Labour Party into its rent-seeking regime. Selling passports and getting public retainers is by far more profitable than being principled and hugely selective in your legal work.…
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The Scerri family has moved from canvassing for Michael Falzon to Clifton Grima
Clifton Grima is one of the major Labour politicians competing for Michael Falzon’s votes in the 10th District. To gobble up Michael Falzon’s votes, Clifton Grima has simply hired the Scerri family in his secretariat, despite their history of shady dealings in connection with Michael Falzon. Vicky Scerri mother to Clint Scerri and Rainer Scerri,…
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A personal note on my writings about the judiciary
I know for certain that there are members of the bench who read me and there is nothing irregular about this. Many members of the judiciary are in fact, avid readers who read most of the interesting stuff published locally, and given that I am covering stories about their colleagues, they will undoubtedly be curious.…
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Busy covering up the multi-million Euro benefits racket
Ex-Judge Antonio Mizzi has been appointed by Michael Falzon as head of an inquiry over the social benefits racket. Michael Falzon is the same Minister responsible for the social benefits racket while Antonio Mizzi is a pro-Labour judge with a long history of friendship with some of Labour’s worst names, apart from being married to…
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The developer who killed Miriam Pace was awarded a public property after he was the only one who tendered for it
Elton Joseph Caruana, one of the developers who killed Miriam Pace, who as of lately, has been flexing his Mercedes on social media, was also awarded the lease of commercial premises in ?amruin by Lands in a tender that only he applied for. The lease for the property is for 15 years and the rent…
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They got away with Miriam Pace’s murder
The company, developers, and architects who killed Miriam Pace in her own home have all gotten away with it with the minimum punishment possible (apart from paying a small sum of compensation to her husband). The building site that killed Miriam Pace will be resuming operations as if nothing has happened. The architects got community…
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An extended Real-Estate Mafia
Unlike Roderick Galdes who stacked properties under his name, Silvio Schembri, Minister for the Economy and another member of the Real-Estate Mafia with Prime Minister Robert Abela, has stacked properties and built wealth by distributing it to various fronts, such as and of course, his wife. However, Silvio has various other fronts such as his…
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How the Labour Party turned into Robert Abela’s cult
The story of how the Labour Party became Robert Abela’s cult is very interesting and involves different sub-stories. It involves the story of a criminal deal by Robert Abela and Joseph Muscat, a generation of young socialists who abandoned their ideals, an internal government and Party purge, a disunited opposition, and the fizzling out of…
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Time to begin asking questions to Michael Stivala
So, Michael Stivala, this lying and rent-seeking buffon, who most recently was on the news for his bullying tactics, once told us that he hired Joseph Muscat because Muscat is a genius. Recently, he also tried to bully environmental NGOs by making false claims on them that they are funded by his competitors. Stivala is…
