The Malta Independent 17 January 2020, Friday

Joseph Muscat turns to football, in talks with MFA on Serie C idea

From Prime Minister to football administrator – it took Joseph Muscat just a few days to plan his next project. Muscat, who resigned last Monday in the wake of his office’s link to...

latest comment from Percy Pace, 17/01/2020 11:40: The local sporting scene is already infested with claims of corruption. Who wants the Most corrupt politician of the world for 2019 anywhere there? To further muddy the already murky waters? BAD MOVE MR. PM, THAT YOU WILL RUE BY NEXT ELECTION TIME!
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PM Abela disagrees that appointing backbench MPs to government roles buys their silence

Prime Minister Robert Abela has not yet considered the issue of backbench MPs being appointed to government posts, but did say that neither he, not other PL MPs  had never had their silence...

latest comment from The Alchemist, 17/01/2020 12:00: I know you are a very smart person. But (and you would know, as you’re smart) that the usual howlers will still be hell bent to attack you and so the PL.
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MFSA warning on AlphaEx

The Malta Financial Services Authority said today it has become aware of an entity by the name of AlphaEx which has an internet presence at https://www.alphaex.net/. The entity is claiming to be...

Daphne public inquiry: Alfred Sant questions relevance of queries about PL administration

Former Labour Party leader and PM Alfred Sant this morning questioned the relevance of queries being made about the Labour Party administration during the public inquiry into the assassination of...

latest comment from Francis Saliba, 17/01/2020 07:09: At one time Alfred Sant was notoriously critical of the LP and the way he was treated by it, and yet he does not "discredit" himself because of that conduct. He tries to curry favour with the Muscat version of the MLP when most Labourites today, starting from the very top, are tying to dissociate themselves from its corruption and organised criminality..
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Updated: Prime Minister Abela says memorial to Caruana Galizia will not be cleared after vigil

Prime Minister Robert Abela has said that the memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia will not be removed after tonight's vigil, saying that he already gave instructions for it not to be cleaned. The...

latest comment from Spiru Friggieri, 17/01/2020 03:12: "Memorial to Caruana Galizia will not be cleared after vigil!." With all due respect, the main crux is not whether flowers and candles are removed or not, but that the all culprits of this horrendous crime are brought to justice and pay for their deeds! Justice should be served beyond anything else.
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Updated: Cabinet appoints Committee on Governance

Ministers and parliamentary secretaries were all smiles Thursday morning as the first Cabinet meeting under new Prime Minister Robert Abela was held. On Wednesday, Abela appointed 17 ministers...

latest comment from Gaetano Desira, 17/01/2020 07:00: The foreign workers from outside EU countries has to decrease and finish in this small island ( 28 km long by 14 km width ) with over population per square kilometer. By these strangers the overtime and the second job for the Maltese's has decrease or finished. The quality of life for the Maltese people should came before everything. In the past years, 70S, 80S and 90s half of Malta has been build and all the work was done by Maltese workers.
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PG Group’s majority shareholder donates €7m company shares to The Malta Trust Foundation

Paul Gauci, has donated a number of shares from his personal 75% shareholding in PG plc. Following last July's donation of shares to Caritas and Dar tal-Providenza as part of the group's 'Caring for...

latest comment from Ronnie_Best, 17/01/2020 12:08: Great news,a laudable start, and definitely a step in the right direction. Now please show some more social responsibility by reducing the extremely high profit percentages at which companies in your group sell necessities (like food, etc.) to the general public.
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If Muscat will work to legalise abortion, he will find me fighting him – Abela

If former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has the intention of working to legalise abortion, he will “find me against him”, new Prime Minister Robert Abela said. In his farewell speech,...

latest comment from Robert Gatt, 16/01/2020 23:09: It is precisely because it is such a sensitive issue, the reason why such an issue shouldn't be resolved on the basis of the opinion of the majority, whatever the majority says. This is not an issue of being democratic or undemocratic. This is an issue of what is fundamentally right or fundamentally wrong. I am entitled to no right if, by exercising such right, I trample upon the rights of other people. Having no one standing up for what is right does not make it wrong or bad, and having everyone applauding what's wrong does not make it right. So numbers are irrelevant in this case.
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‘I’m being separated from myself’, Evarist Bartolo on new role as Foreign Minister

Newly-appointed Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo says that he feels like he was being separated from himself. After years of shadowing the education ministry and having served as education...

latest comment from Rita Saliba, 16/01/2020 13:31: Our luck often comes disguised as adversity. Perhaps, for all he knows, he will now discover abilities and faculties as yet untapped, which would have remained unused and unexploited hadn't he been forced to call them up. We rise to our challenges if we have the real potential. This is what he and we will find out now. Does he have the true political acumen, the real potential? Or will he fall by the wayside...........if he does, then it would be clear to all and sundry that it was time for him to go. He should stop moaning and putting on that poodle face, silly man.
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TMID Editorial: Joseph and Simon – A tale of two opposites

Sometimes a string of unrelated events, when put together, send out a strong message. In this case, it is just two events, completely separate from each other, that shed so much light on two...

latest comment from Silvan Said, 17/01/2020 08:41: Because the majority of Maltese voters are only interested in what they can get for themselves from the state. So they vote for people like Muscat who appeals to their sense of entitlement.
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