Comments on: PANAMAGATE: Anti-government-corrupt protest makes the NZ and Australian press

By: J. Jones

J. Jones — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:06:00 +0000

Looks like this protest (and more importantly, why the protest was held) has reached remote countries of the world such as China and New Zealand. But somehow, in an unusually strange manner, it hasn’t reached Brussels, the EU headquarters.

This is very bizarre, given that the EU has its watchdogs to keep an eye on what’s going on in its member States.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:21:00 +0000

Yes, so I was told.

By: Jack Bean

Jack Bean — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:00:00 +0000

Naqbel miegħek ħafna. Dan xogħol it-TV tal-PN. Nixluhom bi kliemhom stess ħalli l-poplu kollu jara l-falsita’ u l-qerq tal-Moviment ta’ Joseph Muscat.

By: Guza

Guza — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:18:00 +0000

In reply to Claude Sciberras. Well written, I was there as well.

By: Gee Mike

Gee Mike — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 07:56:00 +0000

In reply to Claude Sciberras.

Well my 11 year old son was explaining corruption to his younger brother aged 9 on the way into Valletta yesterday afternoon.

He asked his younger brother “would you hide from a police man?” The young one said “No, why would I ?, I did nothing wrong”, to which the elder one said, “If the minister has money hiding places, it only means he has lots of money to hide, and that’s not good, cause it’s our money”.

By: pm

pm — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 07:42:00 +0000

She said all this. BUT did she understand the meaning of what she seems to have studied parrot like?

By: Brian Sinclair

Brian Sinclair — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 01:09:00 +0000

Nothing from European media yet?

By: J. Borg

J. Borg — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:11:00 +0000

For as long as the Labour Party exists, Malta will flip-flop from respected state to banana republic. It’s just that simple. They know no other way.

By: Claude Sciberras

Claude Sciberras — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:57:00 +0000

Today I realised how different my childhood was to what my children are living today. Luckily my children know nothing about politics.

I realised how little they know when today I took them to the protest and had to explain so much for them to understand.

We lived politics differently as children. We felt its repercussions on a daily basis – no decent chocolates, no colour tv, crazy telephone lines, hopeless pasta, water on and off, school closed down, private lessons at your teacher’s home, fear, daily news of corruption and crimes etc etc.

As I took my children to the protest today I remembered how political meetings were almost a weekly outing for us as kids at one point in time.

Today I also realised how quickly we could lose what we have gained over the past 25 years, and which till just 3 years ago we took so much for granted.

There are very worrying signs in front of us. Let’s hope we see them and act upon them before its too late and our country returns to the mayhem of the 80s.