They were probably crying with relief that their ‘dear’ dad Mintoff had finally kicked the bucket.

Ah yes, the brother and sister. The ones he called his family’s ‘paljazzi’ in his public meetings during his conflict with the Church.

Maybe the ivory came from one of Anglu Farrugia’s tuks.

Konti Ugolino, jaqaw ta’ GDM tad-djamanti kienet? Ara veru nies tal-misthija intom. Ahjar tharsu lura u taraw fl-istorja kemm kontu ipokriti.

Konti Ugolino, jaqaw ta’ GDM tad-djamanti kienet? Ara veru nies tal-misthija intom. Ahjar tharsu luravu taraw fl-istorja kemm kontu ipokriti.

A few corrections.

Mintoff made a great deal of money in the post war years, was famously awarded a sizeable sum for – ahem – being deprived of the right to enjoy his property in Delimara on the basis of a law which he himself had resisted introducing, and was a notorious miser, hence his wealth.

The Gaddafi prize for human rights is not something to boast about, though it was a most appropriate award for someone who was neither humane nor a great believer in the rights of others.

Nobility and wealth are not synonymous. Mintoff’s wife was not wealthy.

And daughter is not a proper noun.

Now put a poisonous sock in your own mouth.

Ivory, were they? Are Laburisti into illegal trade in endangered species now?

“…the only large some of money Dom got was by winning the Gaddafi Prize for Human Rights in 2008, worth 250,000 EUR.”

Let me guess – that is something to be proud of.

Let me guess again – Mintoff did the only right thing to do, and gave it away? Or perhaps not.

He called those particular siblings wirdien.