Tag: Rent-seeking
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Project Fraud
Remember that while you are being fed the fairy tales that the government is going to make Malta greener by paying 700 million to its donors who have specifically set up companies to take in this money, the real environmental footprint in this country is decreasing fast. Here’s the latest case in Marsascala. Mark CamilleriWebsite…
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Anton Camilleri and the Labour Connection
I had forgotten that Anton Camilleri, the applicant who is applying to build an apartment complex in one of the last green spaces in Santa Lu?ija, was always awarded a public alleyway by the government for the total price of €134,000. So, it comes as no surprise that Anton Camilleri would use the Labour Party’s…
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Raiding the culture ministry, again
It’s great to see Nationalist Party MPs doing some opposition work, given that the Nationalist Party seems to be dead and its MPs on permanent holiday. Julie Zahra, a newly elected PN MP is taking the Culture Minister to task over the reckless spending at Heritage Malta. Heritage Malta is being accused of constant misuse…
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Some people never get tired of rent-seeking
Michael Zammit Tabona’s nephew, Edward who takes care of the family business including Captain Morgan is currently promoting a new company called GEB Landscaping Malta. The company was founded in March this year by directors who are involved in companies owned by the Zammit Tabonas such as Ozo Group of Companies (Frank Muscat, son of…
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The insufferable elitism of a rent-seeker
There is a huge difference between rich people who made it on their own and others who gained wealth illicitly and never worked an hour in their life. Robert and Lydia Abela make part of the latter category and they have grown so accustomed to receiving wealth without working for it that they have turned…
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No more pretenses
The government is no longer trying to make any pretences about not being a mafia state. The architect of the collapse of rule of law in Malta that enabled rampant corruption by Joseph Muscat and his cabal and the eventual murder of a journalist has been placed on the government’s payroll. Previous Attorney-General Peter Grech,…
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When Robert Abela worked against us
Fejn kontu meta konna ta??t in-Nazzjonalisti? Jien nipprotesta fit-toroq kont. The Labour Party loves accusing the Nationalist Party of collective amnesia, only to refuse to live up to its own standards. The hypocrisy has never been so glaring with Robert Abela who made a career out of rent-seeking. There was a time when the Abela…
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The story on the Tumas Fenech donations
Maybe, my standards and expectations are too high for my own good as I would expect the PN to have a categorical position on not accepting any donations from the Tumas Group. However, the truth seems to be otherwise. Both Labour and PN seem to have accepted donations from the Tumas Group during the last…
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Robert Abela’s history of rent-seeking
Journalists are currently investigating the Prime Minister’s long history of rent-seeking. Times of Malta have today published an article about the payments Robert Abela received as the “legal consultant” of the Planning Authority under the Lawrence Gonzi and the Joseph Muscat administrations. As anyone would have expected, under Joseph Muscat’s rent-seeking boom, payments to Robert…
