No cash payments for whistleblowers – they’ll be paid with contracts instead

Owen Bonnici, the Justice Minister, has said that he doesn’t envisage legislation allowing the government to pay whistleblowers for their information.

This came on the back of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld’s recommendation that governments should reward whistleblowers to encourage more to come forward.

Of course the government has no intention of introducing any such legislation. When somebody ‘blows the whistle’ on somebody or something associated with the Nationalist Party or Gonzi’s government, which gives them something they can use as campaign propaganda, they thank him with sizeable government contracts.

And nobody would be mad enough, in the ongoing scenario, to blow the whistle on anything or anyone associated with the Labour Party or this government, because the general perception now is that they’d end up with the police on their backs and government/Labour retributory action.