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People like Chris Fearne ‘should never end up the target of cruel attacks’ – Abela

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Sunday that people like former Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne should never end up in the aim of cruel attacks. Fearne submitted his resignation on Friday,...

latest comment from RF, 12/05/2024 17:28: First Muscat and Abela appoint or promote persons beyond their capabilities and make them act irresponsibly even derelicting their duties in the face of corrupt deals and then when justice catches up with them, they say that they are being attacked cruelly. As a lawyer, Abela and the AG ought to know that any person claiming that they acted under orders of one's superior—that they did not commit offenses of their own free will - is no defence. They should not have compromised them with bribes in cash or kind.
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President Myriam Spiteri Debono calls for the protection of arable land

President Myriam Spiteri Debono has called for more protection of arable land and to always consider the mental and physical health of the population above egocentric interests. She spoke at the...

latest comment from Vassals, 12/05/2024 15:28: The Architectural profession has evolved and at the present time the philosophy underlying it is one centred on making as much money as possible.
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Fearne to stay on as Labour Party Deputy Leader for Parliamentary Affairs, Abela says

Chris Fearne is to remain the Labour Party's Deputy Leader for Parliamentary Affairs, Prime Minister Robert Abela said Saturday. The announcement came after a parliamentary group meeting which...

latest comment from RF, 12/05/2024 10:22: Fearne had mocked the PN by saying he wanted RIPN on his grave. His political career has crashed in shame just 4 years later.
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Labour switched leaders but remained on the wrong course, PN leader says

Labour MPs are finding out that having Robert Abela as their leader instead of Joseph Mucsat has not led them away from the party’s wrongdoing, Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech said...

latest comment from Glen Walker, 11/05/2024 16:45: Switched leaders is putting this mildly. JM stitched Fearne from his 65% majority and placed his lawyer by manipulating the executive voters 3 days before. Why did JM panic and not want Fearne (his deputy) to replace him? Only then, to make him sign the Vitals contract as negotiated by KM and ordered its signing within hours. Doing so with the knowledge that they were robbing us, effective 3 days after we gave them our vote of trust. So E-Grant fabricated, Vitals and Stewart are the fault of 'the establishment', our journalists are part of the same est, now even our PM is trying to save his arse to the detriment of our Nation's reputation. Its time our PM defends us and our home and harmony. If the timing of the report was issued before an election, it was done in Malta's interest. The electorate have the fundamental right of knowing whether to trust a politician facing criminal charges beforehand and not find out after they voted, without any prior knowledge. So Mr. PM, let the judiciary do its job and if the magisterial inquiry has suspicions of criminal behavior, I'm sure there shows enough evidence to act according to the rule of law, which you yourself lived, enjoyed and must abide by also.
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PL to field 381 candidates for local council elections

There are a total of 381 candidates for the upcoming local council elections, whom the Prime Minister Robert Abela described as being the best team to continue building on what the Labour Party has...

latest comment from John Vincent, 11/05/2024 17:41: "Abela said that local councils are there to implement the government’s proposals for the different communities." I beg to strongly disagree. Local Councils are there to submit the resident's proposals for the community and to ask that the Government, with the help of the LC as far as practicable and possible, implements them for the benefit of the locality. It is the government and local councils who are there to serve the community which elects them, not the other way round. All politicians should get this reasoning firmly embedded in the area just above their deaf ears and not transpose roles!
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Updated: Repubblika, IGM condemn intimidation of journalists

Repubblika on Saturday strongly condemned the intimidation of journalists and calls upon the government to ensure that the targeting of journalists is not tolerated. Repubblika said it has been...

latest comment from RF, 12/05/2024 06:06: Whoever surreptitiously took that photo of a journalist's tablet is disloyal to his colleague journalists. It shows he/she is no serious journalist or cameraperson but a servile cog in the Labour Party's wheel.
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TMID Editorial: One resignation, more should follow

Yesterday, a major resignation was registered as a result of charges being filed over the Vitals inquiry. Malta’s Deputy Prime Minister, Chris Fearne, has quit, with immediate effect, and...

latest comment from C Xerri, 11/05/2024 14:12: "By shedding doubts on the inquiry all Abela is doing...." Is doubting the timing of the presentation of the hospitals inquiry report actually shedding doubts about the inquiry?
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Żurrieq residents, farmers call for local plan review

Residents and farmers led by the Għaqda Residenti taż-Żurrieq on Saturday called on the government to amend the local plans for the region, in the wake of a zoning application that...

latest comment from Joe Mallia, 11/05/2024 13:21: Where are the LPPN MPs and the candidates who expect to represent us citizens? Their close connections with the developers do not permit them to voice the citizens' concerns on environmental issues.
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