Comments on: PANAMA PAPERS: Offshore company database to be made publicly available on Monday, 9 May at 8pm

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:33:00 +0000

Marelli, how exhausting. No, all the information available in the Panama Papers has NOT been made publicly available already.

There are hundreds of thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of names. How can they have been made publicly available unless it’s by the very kind of searchable database that will be launched on 9 May?

Jesus.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:31:00 +0000

The thing is, some of you are not even bothering to collate what you’ve read.

The information that the ultimate beneficial owner of Egrant is unknown is out there already: it’s in the fact that the name was given only in Skype.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:02:00 +0000

The New Zealand and Australian press were interested, for reasons that will be immediately obvious.

By: Sea Bastion

Sea Bastion — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:55:00 +0000

In reply to D Sullivan.

According to the Three-World Model, Malta was Third World and according to the Three Worlds Theory, definitely Second World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-World_Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Worlds_Theory

I don’t see how this has anything to do with the Panama Papers, though.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:13:00 +0000

Well, you know, who cares. Elections are not won on 90% of the vote, and this country is full of people who believe in the Virgin Birth. Trying to convince people with a low IQ and no rational skills will just drive you nuts.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:44:00 +0000

The Maltese malaise

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:43:00 +0000

HERE WE GO AGAIN.

The available information on Egrant is all out in the public domain already. Do you honestly imagine that you are going to find something about it on May 9 that the hundreds of journalists with access to the documents haven’t found already?

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:38:00 +0000

Yes, exactly. Malta is not a real democracy. I keep repeating that and this is what I mean. The institutions don’t function effectively, there is no clear separation of powers, and people themselves are inherently undemocratic.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:30:00 +0000

In reply to tinnat. You're wrong. This is the normal trajectory. People don't stay in a state of high excitement about something for months. It's been more than two months already. In terms of staying power, that's huge.

By: tinnat

tinnat — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:26:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. I'm sorry, but it IS sizzling out. The pot is full of poison, but it's going cold. The Nationalists need to pull up their socks.