Egrant Inc: The declarations of trust were handed over to the inquiring magistrate

Pulitzer Prize-winner Raphael Vassallo is such an excellent journalist that he hasn’t found out yet that the two declarations of trust – the documents central to the Egrant Inc case – were given to the inquiring magistrate several weeks ago.

Nor have he and his boss at the newspaper worked out that the reason why the magistrate has not closed the inquiry is the obvious one that all sane people who don’t carry an axe even to bed and the bathroom have been able to work out for themselves: that to prove that X doesn’t own a company you have got to first prove that Y does.

Training in logic – and by that I don’t mean the Maltese use of the word as ‘reasoning’ – should be a mandatory part of the school curriculum. A poor grasp of logic and look what you get: people who go to university and remain only marginally less irrational than a medieval peasant.

Young people like Matthew Mizzi, who think rationally and are 100% informed, would have been the future of Malta had they not seen sense and got away before it was too late.