There are so many warning signs if only “Professor” Scicluna would understand them.

Like the amount of cash not held by banks. Someone tells me they found half a million in cash that someone kept at home. Just like that.

Or the way IOUs have taken over the antiques trade.

Or the worrying expenditure-to-declared-income ratio. Of all the “changes” that Malta needed, a crackdown on tax evasion would have been the best. But no one wants that, do they?

We’re getting all our financial information either from government ministers (then it’s propaganda) or from professionals in financial services (then it’s marketing bullshit).

Try the civil servants at the Tax Department. The honest ones.

One thing I’ll tel you: when Al Capone was finally convicted, it wasn’t over murder, or violent crime, or trafficking in illegal alcohol. It was over tax evasion.

The present is a mirror of the future, with the exception that the product in the present circumstances is slightly different from the product of the future. But then come to think of it, both are drugs. This is Labour logic.

Those engaged in criminal activity as well as those with mad men in the family make part of the Maltese society, to start with, tinnat – if you keep your eyes open and take a good look around you, you might realise that there are many more of them than you think.

The fact that Malta has second highest rate of heroin use in the EU speaks for itself.

As you said, government stocks are always invariably oversubscribed. the banks obviously take a large chunk, the retail investors piddling amounts, ergo the rest…

For those engaged in criminal activity and those with madmen in the family, yes, Malta has become dangerous. For everyone else, it is certainly more dangerous than even a few years ago. Is it one of the most dangerous countries in Europe. By far not.

I wonder whether the trade in the countries mentioned has a common source.

I’d like to repeat myself senseless on this point:

this is already causing Malta to have an extremely bad image in the places where it counts abroad and will rebound terribly for Maltese business and economy.

Gonzi staved off a lot and this will be entirely of Labour’s undoing.

It’s not a question of when it is going to hit us, just how long it takes to trickle down.

HPB

The situation is similar to pockets in Sicily and the south of Italy. Although, don’t delude yourself – the UK and many other countries round Europe are no different. See how many villas in the affluent South and South East England are used for weed growing!

Did the PN really think that they got round the global financial crisis because they were exceptional?

Anyone else that does not have the blessings to be the official importer is eradicated by the police.

Trust me on this, the right to import these drugs are no different than the official importer of you favorite Japanese car brand or your choice Italian espresso coffee maker to Malta.