Comments on: Was that a spoof report in The Times today?

By: Kenneth Cassar

Kenneth Cassar — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:52:54 +0000

Daphne, you should read this: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120330/local/yana-mintoff-hits-out-at-film-about-her-father.413383

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:37:28 +0000

Surely Our Lady of Sorrows was actually celebrated on the 23rd? Why, I even heard the congregation singing “mietna ta’ xejn.”

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:16:48 +0000

In reply to Giovanni. It's difficult to have a comment uploaded on timesofmalta.com. My success rate is of about 30%. Many of the pro-Labour comments are sent by the same persons using false names; there a Joey Tribbiani, for example.

By: paddy

paddy — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:10:43 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

I do not agree with you on this point. Maltese died during the war and as all historians agree it was the most bombed area during the war.

On the other hand the 31st of March was only an extension of the British presence in Malta. Independence was achieved in 1964 and Malta was a Republic in 1974 but Mintoff never accepted that Dr Borg Olivier got Independence of Malta not him and thus he invented a day to seem as he is the saviour of Malta.

Please note several countries were independent and had foreign bases, first of all Italy where the US 6 th fleet was bases and Cyprus still to date.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:15:07 +0000

The British government refused to renew their military basis because Mintoff was asking a high price. The British wisely concluded that their strategic need to stay in Malta was no longer needed so they decided to move out.

Mintoff decided to turn a humiliating negotiating defeat into a national holiday called Freedom Day and half of Malta swallowed his gimmick like a hungry marlin.

Ironically, it was Mintoff’s rule that deprived them freedom to read the newspaper of the Opposition without fear, to listen to the Opposition leader on national TV and to speak freely against Mintoff’s regime.

By: Miss O'Brien

Miss O'Brien — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:24:02 +0000

Another hissy fit from Joseph. If he champions women so much why doesn’t he appoint a woman as one of his deputies instead of those two dinosaurs?

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:36:55 +0000

Does nobody support the Nationalist Party anymore, or have those who do just given up sending in comments to timesofmalta.com? The comments board there has become similar to that of Malta Today.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120325/local/muscat-is-making-savage-promises-to-everyone.412676

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:41:16 +0000

A celebration for failing to reach an agreement with Britain?

Mintoff would have extended the then existing agreement ‘for the right (his) price’.

What kind of principle is that?

In their inimitable fashion, the Labour Party celebrates its own failures.

Freedom from Britain, but slaves to N Korea, China, and Muammar Gaddafi.

By: DICKENS

DICKENS — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:08:32 +0000

In reply to David J Camilleri. The OFFICIAL excuse is that they did not want the joy and jubilation of the occasion to interfere with the devotions of Our Lady Of Sorrows. [Daphne - Our Lady of Sorrows falls on the EVE, not the day itself.]

By: Allo Allo

Allo Allo — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:01:20 +0000

In reply to P Shaw. Does that mean that if Gonzi makes way for say, Paula Mifsud Bonnici to be the leader of the PN, then even the LP will be voting for her? With Franco ready to work with anyone except Gonzi, LP voting for the woman candidate, she would be voted in power unanimously.