“Sunday newspaper Illum is informed that Police Commissioner John Rizzo has come under pressure to tender his resignation.”

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/…/Police-Commissioner-under-pressure-to-...

Naqra puxxjatura a’ la Toni Zarb.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2012-01-10/news/after-showing-off-his-form-ii-records-franco-debono-fails-to-produce-university-academic-records-304168/

“The Form 2 result is one of the few that are still at hand,” he said. As for his attendance of lectures, he said: “No, I didn’t attend many lectures, as did many other students. I didn’t really like the University system. I did very well in my first year, when we covered topics that I was interested in, such as constitutional and criminal law. But I wasn’t particularly interested in commercial law, for instance.

I think that if Dr. Borg Olivier were to be found guilty by the Court, or maybe even before that, he has good grounds to refer the case to the Constitutional Court and eventually the ECHR for the reason that virtually all government departments involved in the justice process fall under the direct responsibility of the complainant.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
– Edmond Burke 1729-1797

And how can anyone be so crass as to insult someone who looks like “the rich guy” from the game Monopoly.

Except to the extent that I called Judge Bonello ‘rabidly conservative’, I don’t believe that I insulted him.

He was rabidly conservative on religious issues, and this is borne out in his opinion in Lautsi (the crucifix case). That opinion is an embarrassment. It is vitriolic, and my colleagues at UK universities literally laughed at his reasoning and ‘colourful’ language.

His language was ‘legendary’, but this description is euphemistic to his many detractors.

As for the dean of the Faculty of Laws, I’m afraid that I disagree with him. I don’t consider any of his arguments in that link to be particularly compelling.

Nice things are said about people leaving a job as a matter of course. So let’s leave that aside.

The Dean of the Faculty of Laws is, in my experience, having worked with him, not exactly a man of imposing opinion. His claim to being a professor is also questionable.

The people doing the insulting above were academics. This person is quoting them. Unfortunately something one has to bear as a public figure. Please can we rise above the parochial “insult” idea that is so ingrained in Malta? And please look beyond a couple of ToM links from people who barely deserve their titles in making an argument?

When you enter the site the survey comes up.

The cost of the Muscat First Republic Cabinet will amount to euro 62 million over 5 years (The Times, 15 March 2013).

This is around euro 32 million more expensive than the cabinet of Lawrence Gonzi.

However, this is euro 62 million cheaper than the REAL Muscat cabinet, which will comprise of 14 Ministers, 8 Parliamentary Secretaries, and their 23 spouses.