Malta miexja lejn rebbiegħa ġdida fejn jeħtieġ li int tkun protagonist.
Lejn futur fejn il-komunitajiet huma vibranti u mhux depressi, awtentiċi u mhux bla ruħ. Fejn ix-xogħol iġib flus tajba filwaqt li jinċentiva liż-żgħażagħ tagħna jsebbħu ’l pajjiż.
Għaddejjin minn żmien ikrah u tad-dwejjaq.
Però, minkejja l-ħafna rabja u frustrazzjoni li ximindaqqiet nesprimi, minix irrassenjat. Lanqas ftit.
L-Ewropa tista’ tgħin ħafna biex Malta tisbieħ. Jien li għamilt sitt snin Segretarju Ġenerali tat-tielet l-ikbar partit fil-Parlament Ewropew naf ħafna dwar kif u xiex irridu nagħmlu biex naslu.
Żmien il-politika tas-soltu spiċċa. Ħu t-tmun f’idejk!
Byron Camilleri kicked out of Benghazi by HaftarShameful behaviour by Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, who today declared Byron Camilleri and his Italian and Greek Minister colleagues and EU Commissioner Mark Brunner as persona non grata and expelled them from Eastern Libja. ... See MoreSee Less
Tigne sea cave: are they polluting with building materials?White discharge since morning. Normally water is crystal clear. Not normal. Also white foam floating, which never happens.Pipes put there recently. Always water coming tunnel (aircon?), but never this white. ... See MoreSee Less
Kurt Buhagiar was put in prison for human trafficking in 2011 by Italian authorities. Kurt Buhagiar is one of the accused of Jean Paul Sofia's involuntary murder.These days Kurt Buhagiar was given back his government job at the Lands Authority. Robert Abela has now defended Buhagiar's reinstatement, saying he had been suspended with pay but is now "carrying out the duties he is paid to do".We have a morally bankrupt Prime Minister, who is unfit to lead. ... See MoreSee Less
Safety before moneyThe interview in TOM with Perit Joanna Spiteri Staines makes very sobering reading.She makes the logical argument that aesthetics in our building practices should be a must.But then she also points out the risks of additional storeys added to old buildings.In Malta laws are not enforced. Responsible architects use EU or British Standards but this is on a voluntary basis.Should there not be a law that makes it compulsory to ensure that before adding extra storeys to an existing building one has to certify solidity of ground, foundations and supporting walls? ... See MoreSee Less
Is Robert Abela trying to cover up for corrupt officials?Government wants to pass Bill 137 with the intention, it says, of protecting civil servants who make mistakes.I have no problem with honest civil servants committing genuine mistakes being protected.But, in reality, this bill makes no distinction between genuine administrative mistakes and abuse of power or corruption. One concrete example: do you remember when a minister gave her footballer friend a 15000 euro consultancy for a job he understood nothing about?Well, the go-ahead for that illegal job was signed by the permanent secretary in that Ministry.So let's be clear: in such case, this was a severe dereliction of duty by the permanent secretary.It was no genuine administrative mistake but a very conscious act of illegality by a permanent secretary, who wanted to boot lick his minister boss.Bill 137 must be amended to ensure that civil servants with such corrupt behaviour remain directly answerable for their actions. ... See MoreSee Less
Assisted deathYesterday, the government's 60 days for commenting on the assisted death bill were up.Very fast. Too fast. Yet, important issues have come up.Keeping in mind that members and candidates of Momentum would eventually have a free vote, here is my take on all this.First, the government has to ensure that all available innovative medicines are to be made available in Malta ao that patients have access to the latest cure.When this is in place, a fully functioning palliative cure system has to be set up to offer respite and care for all areas of suffering, on the models used by the Hospice Movement and by Mater Dei Oncology department.When this is fully functional, parliament can debate and legislate on 'living wills".After these three stages have been fully exhausted, only then should parliament debate on a bill which would allow for the possibility of assisted death. ... See MoreSee Less
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Byron Camilleri kicked out of Benghazi by HaftarShameful behaviour by Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, who today declared Byron Camilleri and his Italian and Greek Minister colleagues and EU Commissioner Mark Brunner as persona non grata and expelled them from Eastern Libja. ... See MoreSee Less
Tigne sea cave: are they polluting with building materials?White discharge since morning. Normally water is crystal clear. Not normal. Also white foam floating, which never happens.Pipes put there recently. Always water coming tunnel (aircon?), but never this white. ... See MoreSee Less
timesofmalta.com/article/abela-defence-corradino-accused-reinstatement-morally-bankrupt.1112708 ... See MoreSee Less
Abela’s defence of Corradino accused reinstatement ‘morally bankrupt' - Momentum
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Massaging the Film Commissioner with our taxes ! ... See MoreSee Less
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Safety before moneyThe interview in TOM with Perit Joanna Spiteri Staines makes very sobering reading.She makes the logical argument that aesthetics in our building practices should be a must.But then she also points out the risks of additional storeys added to old buildings.In Malta laws are not enforced. Responsible architects use EU or British Standards but this is on a voluntary basis.Should there not be a law that makes it compulsory to ensure that before adding extra storeys to an existing building one has to certify solidity of ground, foundations and supporting walls? ... See MoreSee Less
timesofmalta.com/article/momentum-government-plans-halve-pa-appeals-time-limits-15-days.1112629 ... See MoreSee Less
Momentum: Government plans to halve PA appeals time limits to 15 days
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.We all pay for Labour's illegal profitsOut of our pockets. ... See MoreSee Less
Is Robert Abela trying to cover up for corrupt officials?Government wants to pass Bill 137 with the intention, it says, of protecting civil servants who make mistakes.I have no problem with honest civil servants committing genuine mistakes being protected.But, in reality, this bill makes no distinction between genuine administrative mistakes and abuse of power or corruption. One concrete example: do you remember when a minister gave her footballer friend a 15000 euro consultancy for a job he understood nothing about?Well, the go-ahead for that illegal job was signed by the permanent secretary in that Ministry.So let's be clear: in such case, this was a severe dereliction of duty by the permanent secretary.It was no genuine administrative mistake but a very conscious act of illegality by a permanent secretary, who wanted to boot lick his minister boss.Bill 137 must be amended to ensure that civil servants with such corrupt behaviour remain directly answerable for their actions. ... See MoreSee Less
Assisted deathYesterday, the government's 60 days for commenting on the assisted death bill were up.Very fast. Too fast. Yet, important issues have come up.Keeping in mind that members and candidates of Momentum would eventually have a free vote, here is my take on all this.First, the government has to ensure that all available innovative medicines are to be made available in Malta ao that patients have access to the latest cure.When this is in place, a fully functioning palliative cure system has to be set up to offer respite and care for all areas of suffering, on the models used by the Hospice Movement and by Mater Dei Oncology department.When this is fully functional, parliament can debate and legislate on 'living wills".After these three stages have been fully exhausted, only then should parliament debate on a bill which would allow for the possibility of assisted death. ... See MoreSee Less