The two of them were in fact friends.

You cannot expect the Maltese government to answer for the US government or the EU Commission. In any case we all know what Manuel Mallia’s facetious reply would be.

Duminku Mintoff, swine par excellence, would never have stooped so low.

He would never have sold off his motherland so blatantly for sheer money. I still believe there was and is a red line he did not have the temerity to cross.

Malta and the Maltese are being reduced to filthy floozies as never before in history.

It is amply clear that, unlike the people of Malta, the people of Grenada have full right – provided within the law – to access the full details of applicants under the citizenship-by-investment scheme operated in their country. Those details are published in 6 monthly reports.

In Malta – which prime minister Joseph Muscat told us he would make “the Best country in Europe” – Muscat is not permitting the citizens the right to know who is being given the same rights that they enjoy in return for money that they pay to his government via a third party private company.

What, or who, exactly is Joseph Muscat hiding, and why?

“Publication of information

14. It shall be lawful for the Minister, from time to time by Notice in the Gazette to publish information regarding the following;-

(i) the names and identities of all local agents;
(ii) the names and identities of all holders of marketing licences; and
(iii) notice of any revocation of any licence or permanent residency or citizenship status.

Bi-annual Report

15. (1) The Minister shall, every six months on the prescribed dates, prepare a report containing the prescribed information on the applications made, granted and refused under the Act, and shall, as soon as practicable but not later than thirty days after the completion of the report, cause a copy of the report to be laid before the House of Representatives.

(2) The reports referred to in sub-section (1) shall set out information as prescribed in sub-section (3) for the six month period in each year starting on January 1, and July 1 and may be prepared within one month of the expiry of each half-yearly period.

(3) The information contained in the reports referred to in sub-section (2) shall include-

– the number of applicants made, granted and refused under the Act;

– the names, addresses and nationalities of the applicants and any dependants included in the applications;

– the amounts of the investments, as the case may be;

– the names of the approved project, government-sponsored project in respect of which payment was made;

– the aggregate amounts in the National Transformation Fund, at the date of the report;

– the aggregate amounts of funds received pursuant to section (11) of this Act; and

– such other information as the Minster may consider appropriate.”

The text of the Grenada law is published on the website below:

http://thenewtoday.gd/local-news/2013/08/31/act-sell-passport/

Interestingly, no White Paper was issued about such an important subject as the Sale of the Maltese Passport.

And there were no “Gvern li Jisma'” sessions at the Auberge de Castille.

http://www.thedominican.net/2011/11/passport-selling-human-trafficking.html

It is perhaps one of the few times that I wished Mintoff was not dead and ‘rotting in hell’ but still alive and sound of mind. It would have been so interesting to have him comment on both the PL’s cash for passports scheme, as well as the PN portrayal of Mintoff as something of an example.

Frankly, Maltese politicians have really gone to the ‘docks’. Perhaps, with a few exceptions, that’s where they always were.