He has the free water. Now all he needs is the free soap.

The new Labour health minister’s brother

It won’t be long before Police Minister Manuel Mallia remembers about that vast consignment of green soap from Libya, seized by his waiters off John Dalli’s brother’s smuggling-vessel, The Jolly Roger, during a night-time raid off Fawwara.

He’s bound to know about it, because he was the defence lawyer to one member of this drug-smuggling gang, when four of them were charged in court.

And while we’re on the subject, where IS Bastjan Dalli, exactly?

The last we heard of him, he was out on bail, telling a court how while on remand at Corradino Prisons, he heard disembodied voices warning him of a conspiracy against his poor martyred brother. Well, this is one drug smuggler the Secret Service won’t be touching if certain people have their way.

Manuel Mallia’s client was caught in this drug-smuggling operation after the Security (Secret) Service intercepted 300 calls between the gang.

But now Manuel Mallia has put himself in charge of the Security Service and sits in on interviews for recruits. Isn’t that sweet?

I don’t think any amount of green soap and fountain water can wash Malta clean.