As per usual: we learn of news about Malta from the foreign press
The Libyan Herald has reported today that the governor of Libya’s central bank has been “hiding out” in Malta for months, and that this is an open secret.
Yet if anyone had got wind of it here and asked the Prime Minister’s spokesman for confirmation, we would have been told that there could be no confirmation or denial “in the interest of national security”.
I’m beginning to think that most of the Libyan cabinet is in Malta along with key officials like this man.
Maybe Manuel Mallia’s memorandum of understanding on immigration, signed with his Libyan counterpart, was actually an MOU on the immigration of most of Libya’s VIPs to Malta.
And Times of Malta sticks an old man and a car accident over two-thirds of its front page – doorstepping him with a senior journalist and cameraman when it didn’t bother sending the same to doorstep Libya’s deputy prime minister in Xemxija, despite the full address being published here.
Oh, and they didn’t doorstep the pseudo=Christian charity crook woman with whom John Dalli flew to the Bahamas, either, despite her High Street, Sliema address being published here too last summer.
Old men crashing into cars and buzzing off: that’s front page news.
I read the editor’s explanation of why they did that, and I can understand the reasoning though I really don’t agree with it. What the newspaper doesn’t seem to realise is that its front-page story on that old man looked so much worse because it doesn’t do the same to the individuals it really should be doorstepping and splashing over the front page. Some examples:
John Dalli, when the news broke that he had flown to the Bahamas
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, when the news broke that he had been brawling in Rabat the night before
Manuel Mallia, when the news broke that he had declared half a million in cash kept at home and explained them as ‘the sale of property’
Anton Refalo, when he declared only his earnings as a cabinet minister but then claimed to be servicing a loan of almost a million and ownership of more than 20 pieces of real estate
Chris Cardona, when he declared that his overnight riches came from his marriage last year – when anything a woman brings to a marriage belongs only to her and not to her spouse (even if we were to believe his explanation that he gold-dug a Ukrainian woman, rather than a Ukrainian woman gold-digging him)
Please add your own examples below.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-08-11/news/libya-central-bank-admits-governor-hiding-in-malta-for-months-6165954560/
Dalli on his bare-faced declaration that his flight to the Bahamas involved not millions, but billions.
Dalli on the dubious dealings of Tyre Ltd, a company set up and effectively run by his private office in Malta.
Dalli on his insistence that he could not travel to Malta to face police questioning over his involvement in the Snus scandal because of a psycho-social inability to travel and face public scrutiny.
The doctor who issued Dalli’s certificates, asking for confirmation or denial that he ever met Dalli in Brussels when he himself is based in a one-horse town in Germany.
Dalli’s libel lawyer for possibly presenting a false certificate in court to justify Dalli’s absence when he had instituted the case himself.
Dalli on his connection to the fraudsters installed in High Street, Sliema, whose career path so far has involved time in jail, contact with other shady international figures, and several fake passports in different names ostensibly issued by various countries.
Joseph Muscat on why he’s cosying up to Israel with no explanation of why, where, when and how that is of benefit to Malta.
Muscat on his deafening silence on the turbulence in North Africa and across the Middle and Near East and how that affects Malta’s interests and Maltese travellers.
Muscat on why he first lied about security in Libya, then about the abduction of Martin Galea, and then hid behind the head of the civil service.
Muscat and Mallia on the national security risk of sheltering Libya’s former prime minister, the current official deputy prime minister and, now, the Central Bank governor.
Muscat and Vella on the obvious rift between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the OPM on appointments to certain posts, especially the ambassador to Libya and the ambassador to UNESCO.
Muscat on why he says there is no money for local council elections when his head of communications, Kurt Farrugia, leaked a story to Malta Today saying that the sale of passports will bring in 130,000,000 million euros, or 52 times the cost of holding local council elections at the right time.
Muscat on Sai Mizzi’s appointment and what it is really all about and why she was, and still is, untraceable ever since she was appointed in secret.
Shiv Nair on the role he played in Muscat’s dealing with China before and after the national election.
Muscat, ditto.
Muscat on why he is dealing with blacklisted Chinese companies and who’s benefitting directly or indirectly from the deals.
Muscat on his pre-electoral MOU with China, signed in 2010, which he referred to as a long-term agreement between two states.
I reiterate. This place is a haven for crooks, pimps, thieves, scum, rogues, villains and assorted riff-raff.
What worries me is why I feel so much at home here.
1. Commissioner of Data Protection for issuing an arrest warrant to Birdlife members
2. ex-Police Comissioner for withdrawing the investigation on John Dalli.
3. Lino Farrugia Saccco on the last day of parliament before summer recess.
4. Sandro Chetcuti the day after he was at the counting hall or the day after he set up an office at the MLP headquarters
Owen Bonnici’s traffic accident in Sta. Venera causing injury.
Joe Mizzi’s trip to Spain to negotiate with a ‘preferred bidder’, breaking several rules.
Manwel Mallia’s lie about two ‘CCF inmates on ‘prison leave’ returning drunk’ on Sunday after a drinking binge at Hamrun when they were supposed to be working at Tarxien Local Council.
Hundreds of Libyans are injured possibly daily but who decided and on what criteria are they brought to Malta for treatment? It makes you wonder who greases whose palms in such situations?
As I commented on The Malta Independent website, it puts things into perspective when you realise there is more freedom of information in war-torn Libya than in Malta.
Jo wants to bring the Libyan civil war to Malta.
Times of Malta’s print circulation figures over the last 4 years would make interesting reading.
Is the Libyan government in exile in Malta and we don’t know about it?
The government paying €4 million euros for Cafe Premier
The Times are obviously and stupidly making a deliberate effort not to give any prominence to any story which you break.
My list is too long to be submitted. So, what I have done long time ago is that I stopped buying the silly, worthless newspaper.
Same here long ago ,
The police commissioner after his resignation following reports that he was not co operating with Olaf
Minister Bartolo after the summer school fiasco
Minister mallia after reports that he was witholding information from the ombudsman
The prim minister after he tabled Mrs Mizzi’s contract which proved that he was giving erroneous information about her earnings
The judge who is escaping justice
The minister for justice after he said he wanted to impeach the judge before the summer recess and yet allowed him to escape justice.
Etc etc
The children who were discriminated against and instead of being provided with teachers, were refused attendance at summer shools on the pretext that they were full up and the schools could not meet the demand. Let us start caring seriously for our future generation.