You may find it cruel on her or her grandparents, but her grandparents won’t be around forever. You owe her a future, so do the right thing.

The web is bigger than we thought.

You might want to try neo4j (see neo4j.com and also the Wikipedia site). It is essentially a DBMS but it manages databases not in the usual relational form, but as graphs. So attributes are given to nodes and edges. Google also “Graph Database” for more information on such databases which are becoming very popular with the increasing realisation of how powerful a network representation of data is.

I have never had time to use neo4j myself, but the learning curve might be not very steep, and there is an online tutorial. Maybe it can import (from spreadsheet format, say) available data such as a list of directors and companies, from which it could be made to create a network of names, two names connected by an edge if they are directors of the same company. Such a network could then reveal hidden links (simple example: who is at a distance of two or less from any members of a given criminal family?) by using neo4j’s graph handling functionality.

Labour has now emptied that skip onto Malta’s position-of-trust government employment.

The cost of corruption (bribes) is like the cost of R&D: it is built it to the price globally.

When you buy something in Malta, the price you pay includes the cost of bribing government officials in sub-Saharan African states, for instance.

Sometimes, the cost is not built in at all but comes out of profits because prices cannot be raised, but they’re happy to have the supply contract at decreased profits because it is better than none at all.

The ‘oil scandal’ (stupid propaganda term) did NOT cost Malta millions. It ate into Trafigura’s profits and that’s about it.

The price of oil is what it is. There isn’t room for manouevre. Like gold, it has a standard price which is listed every day.

With the details held on a passport and the documents one needs to submit to acquire one, the name not being a common one in Malta and the fact that one hopes passport records are electronic these days, one fails to see how this would be a difficult thing.