– Plato Unfortunately, power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, as Lord Acton put it in 1857. A petition to Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela has requested that the Armed Forces succour a vessel carrying boat migrants inside the Maltese search and rescue zones, as fears grew of a boat capsizing in inclement weather.. L-orizzont did not take up the government’s line at the time. Lokali. We ask anyone feeling unwell to stay at home. Hey, Chris Fearne, finish that sentence now. She matched yesterday’s charade with the press conference Joseph Muscat had given 2021-03-08 14:25:09 29 minutes ago ; Views 0; By: maltatoday.com; A + A-0. The tourism industry is on its knees. Shared Share with; Share with; Prime Minister Robert Abela has stood by former Planning Authority CEO Johann Buttigieg following revelations that he solicited business with Yorgen Fenech. L-orizzont today spoke in defence of activists and protesters who disrupt cruel policies such as forced repatriation that may be, as Byron Camilleri emphasised a few days ago, “legal” but are, as l-orizzont’s editor wrote today “inhumane”. Furthermore, you can allow us to use marketing and third-party cookies, according to our Privacy Policy. “I promise to be the strongest defender of all journalists,” he pledged. It would be a mistake to speak about an election at the moment, Prime Minister Robert Abela said during a political activity on Sunday. Would she like to visit him there? Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela later acknowledged that his government commissioned the fishing vessels to take the African migrants back to Libya, calling the operation a "rescue." This comes as Malta registered an all-time high of cases today: 510. 20 December 2019, 6:17pm by Kurt Sansone . The Prime Minister mentioned a new law introduced this week, whereby only the January and February profits generated will be taken into account for the year 2020. At the time he also decided to hire an ill-equipped fishing vessel to force the survivors back to Libya. Consider the atmosphere in this country last Eastertime, when Repubblika filed a police complaint after Robert Abela decided to hold back the rescue of migrants struggling in Malta’s area of responsibility allowing 12 people to drown. Dr. Robert Abela took office as the 14th Prime Minister of Malta on 13 January 2020. They protested peacefully but they still found court charges”. We have forgotten the coffins bearing only numbers.”. By default, this website uses functional and analytical cookies. They forget that doing this makes them inhuman”. Januar 2020 die Regierung von Malta, geleitet wird es von Premierminister Robert Abela von der Partit Laburista (PL). Dr. Robert Abela took office as the 14 th Prime Minister of Malta on 13 January 2020. "It's clear to us that the Speaker [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-04T13:40:06+01:00Thu, 4th Mar '21, 13:40|, The video of Robert Abela announcing we’d all be running come March made the rounds before today’s inevitable announcement of restrictive measures to try to rein in the rates of contagion from the covid disease. ason Azzopardi was forced to resign his brief as Repubblika’s lawyer in this case because his political party said it was being harmed merely by remote association with the cause. The press conference was addressed by Prime Minister Robert Abela, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne and Superintendent of Public Health Professor Charmaine Gauci. The new measures come on … 12:00. In so doing he absconded from his role of determining the yardsti The number was withheld. On 21 December, Prime Minister Robert Abela insisted that he won’t make any decisions on the future of his junior minister until Standards czar George Hyzler concludes his investigation into the controversial property deal. They had problems travelling, even renting a car. We’ve crossed the point where people no longer wait for the government’s instructions, Repubblika briefs embassies about government attempt to shut it down, Government abandons plans for prison-ship, Doctors “gravely concerned” for Malta’s health system, Conditions in migrant detention centres amount to “inhuman and degrading treatment” – Council of Europe. And focus instead on the issues l-orizzont’s editor raises here. Prime Minister Robert Abela is determined that the European Union should foot the bill for the makeshift offshore detention vessels used to detain more than 400 asylum seekers that were rescued in the Maltese search and rescue region. Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that the Malta International Airport and ports reopening on July 1, 2020. You only have yourself to blame. Nadine Lia recuses herself from case against suppliers of bomb that killed Daphne, GUEST POST: Virtus autem corruptibilis est, If Robert Abela can’t handle his job, he should let a grown up do it, Repubblika calls for AnÄ¡lu Farrugia to quit, George Hyzler chides AnÄ¡lu Farrugia: decision to censor Joseph Muscat ethics-breach report was illegal and baseless. Written by. PRIME MINISTER ROBERT ABELA: (Non-English language spoken). Das Kabinett Abela ist seit dem 13. On Easter Sunday, it-Torċa (which is l-orizzont’s sister newspaper) asked the country where its humanity had gone. We’ve crossed the point where people no longer wait for the government’s instructions, Repubblika briefs embassies about government attempt to shut it down, Government abandons plans for prison-ship, Doctors “gravely concerned” for Malta’s health system, Conditions in migrant detention centres amount to “inhuman and degrading treatment” – Council of Europe. The group, known as the Stansted 15, cut through the perimeter fence of Stansted airport and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet in 2017. But l-orizzont’s editorial line is consistently anti-racist. But like this morning’s editorial, they found, even in that toxic atmosphere, ways of sending a strong anti-racist message to a racist government. But as Malta registered its highest ever batch of COVID-19 cases – 72 – Robert Abela was at the Marina di Ragusa in Sicily, where he enjoys boating weekends on his personal boat. The content was thin, his answers to journalists snide, the case he made on his government's behalf shallow and strained. Perhaps we forgot how 5 years ago we witnessed the funeral of a number of immigrants outside Mater Dei. We are mark­ing a year since the pan­demic struck us – a chal­lenge like no other that cre­ated hard­ships and heart­break for so many. While denying this was happening Chris Fearne went into a rage telling the Opposition Leader, that a member of the PN parliamentary group asked him to [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-03T10:54:51+01:00Wed, 3rd Mar '21, 10:54|, Sitting through the President’s national unity conference on Saturday I detected in the interventions of some people – though by no means in all – a recognition that Malta has reached extremes of divisiveness we all must make a conscious effort to crawl back from. L-orizzont says that repatriation laws “should change. Forced repatriation of migrants detained because of “illegal immigration” is Malta’s policy as well. So l-orizzont’s decision to hail the British court’s decision is of special domestic significance. Here’s this morning’s editorial on General Workers’ Union daily l-orizzont. You can revoke your consent any time using the Revoke consent button. Two weeks ago the Maltese government proudly announced it had forced “failed asylum seekers” on chartered planes. Two weeks ago the Maltese government proudly announced it had forced “failed asylum seekers” on chartered planes. Ian Refalo [...], By Alessandra Dee Crespo2021-03-05T15:07:30+01:00Fri, 5th Mar '21, 14:04|, In the pantheon of press conferences given by prime minister Robert Abela in the past year or so, yesterday’s presser was bonkers, even by his dire standards. De Robert Abela ass de Jong vum fréiere President vu Malta, George Abela. Fis-6:00pm il-Prim Ministru Robert Abela mistenni jindirizza konferenza tal-aħbarijiet mill-Berġa ta’ Kastilja b’rabta mal-miżuri għal kontra t-tixrid tal-Covid-19. Robert Abela is the new Labour Party leader, after Joseph Muscat resigned over a journalist's murder. [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-03T12:53:22+01:00Wed, 3rd Mar '21, 11:22|, Chris Fearne yesterday waxed melodramatic because the Opposition challenged him with allegations that political and clientelistic interference was allowing people to skip the line while waiting for covid vaccination. Just because she’s (conditionally) resigned as Parliamentary Secretary for Reforms (pending an investigation) doesn’t [...]. L-orizzont’s editor then speaks about the protesters who’ve had suspended prison sentences quashed by the UK appeals court yesterday. Din il-konferenza tal-aħbarijiet se tixxandar b’mod dirett fuq l-istazzjonijiet ONE. He will be devoting particular attention to the home affairs ministry to ensure justice is done in its entirety but Labour leadership hopeful Robert Abela promises not to shock the system . Unless you own a bar or operate a club that depends on the rental of a bar, there are no material ‘restrictions’ to ordinary life in spite of ever-growing numbers of infected. Commissioner Hyzler complained the Speaker never asked him what he thought about such a decision. This, the editor says, “is fundamentally wrong”. In Ä enna Malta we do not have emperors – though some time ago we had [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-04T14:00:26+01:00Thu, 4th Mar '21, 14:00|, Robert Abela's performance at today's press conference about the coronavirus was abysmal. This was the end of last January, just over a month ago. That editorial was on the newsstands while Robert Abela ordered the army to ignore distress calls from our search and rescue area and to organise instead a push-back poorly concealed as a ‘rescue’ by a fishing vessel with its name painted over. He described this as the “new mentality” to replace the mentality that allowed Johann Buttigieg to negotiate a business partnership with Yorgen Fenech while regulating his barbarian invasion of towers and monstrous […] Sa issa mhux magħruf x’ħin il-Prim Ministru se jħabbar dawn il-miżuri ġodda. Il-Prim Ministru qal li bl-iktar mod trasparenti, se nkunu qed inħabbru aktar mizuri wara li ilna tul […] They put their arms inside pipes that were then filled with expandable foam and secured themselves around the nose wheel and wing of the aircraft. Roman emperors crowned themselves gods. 9,773 talking about this. 10,966 talking about this. Perhaps the strongest case for the argument that the institutions of this country do not work the way they should, was Robert Abela’s press conference yesterday. Yesterday he lost his shit when [...], By Joe Azzopardi2021-03-05T07:57:43+01:00Fri, 5th Mar '21, 07:57|, The measure of a man is what he does with power. The author is writing about an action by the UK authorities. GUEST POST: Sturdut, prim? Ignore for a moment the grating typo in the headline of the article. They were not critical of the government to be sure. He received his primary education at the Sisters' School and St. Francis School and St. Aloysius' College. Der Mord an der Journalistin Daphne Caruana Galizia hat letztendlich Joseph Muscat zu Fall gebracht. They were convicted of “intentional disruption of services at an aerodrome”. Robert Abela, a little reading before bed could help with the pressure. Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela later acknowledged that his government commissioned the fishing vessels to take the African migrants back to Libya, calling the operation a "rescue." He received his primary education at the Sisters’ School and St. Francis School and St. Aloysius’ College. The editor says the newspaper is against forcing migrants on planes, often in cuffs, often during the night. Robert Abela endured the baptism of all fires: taking the helm on an economic wave only to slam straight into the COVID-19 tsunami. Nadine Lia is the daughter-in-law of Paul Lia, [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-05T12:32:57+01:00Fri, 5th Mar '21, 12:32|, In a recent but much happier press speech by Robert Abela, our prime minister told his audience he was the guardian angel of journalistic freedom. 2021-03-08 11:20:08 13 minutes ago ; Views 4,198; By: timesofmalta.com; A + A-2. On the day when anyone might have read that editorial, and on 3 fateful days that followed, 12 men and boys died, denied our most basic compassion. The first rule of a leaders’ club is not to appear weak in front of the people you govern. Prim Ministru ta’ Malta u Mexxej tal-Partit Laburista Troy (2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela later acknowledged that his government commissioned the fishing vessels to take the African migrants back to Libya, … Il primo ministro Robert Abela in una conferenza stampa svoltasi questo pomeriggio ha anche annunciato le nuove misure emanate dal Three of the 15 got suspended jail sentences and the other 12 were handed community orders. But there’s no doubt he has Malta in his sight. Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself emperor. “Where is our humanity? Cutajar's statement is 8 paragraphs long. Probably in a diplomatic effort to avoid disputes on interpretation [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-03T10:31:05+01:00Wed, 3rd Mar '21, 10:31|, By Manuel Delia2021-03-03T10:22:28+01:00Wed, 3rd Mar '21, 10:22|, Mario Cutajar responded to a speech Jason Azzopardi gave in Parliament yesterday where the MP alleged collusion between the civil service chief an the guy who headed the police force around 2013 to intimidate a senior civil servant into resigning. The request for her recusal was made by lawyers appearing for the Caruana Galizia family and was supported by the prosecution in this case. Nanna Lukarda -who Robert Abela has described as his “personal source of everyday courage and energy” – had entered quarantine around mid-February as she battled the virus currently ravaging the world. The person who spoke to her asked for Mrs Delia and said she was calling from Owen Bonnici's office. They forget or they pretend to forget that this is a far-right narrative. Abela said that government will be coordinating with Libyan authorities so as to curb boat crossings from Libya and address the issue at source. At the time he also decided to hire an ill-equipped fishing vessel to force the survivors back to Libya. Seven and a half paragraphs do not address the [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-05T12:36:36+01:00Wed, 3rd Mar '21, 10:14|, Updated 5 March 2o21, 12:35 There’s something disturbing in the government’s attitude to the pandemic. Tuesday week he took credit for il-Koħħu’s admission to being one of those who executed Daphne [...], By Manuel Delia2021-03-03T11:38:08+01:00Wed, 3rd Mar '21, 11:38|, My wife got a call this morning on her mobile phone number. KAKISSIS: In a televised statement, Prime Minister Robert Abela admitted Malta pushed the migrants to Libya, although he called it a rescue. UPDATED: Dr Strangelove: or how I learnt to stop worrying and love Covid. L-orizzont continues today: “We are too often seeing messages from liberal governments that flirt with narratives and actions intended against those who have escaped their countries for a better life. He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Malta in 2002. Missier Giorgia Mae, miżżewweġ lil Lydia. It’s playing at the upstairs square theatre of St James Cavalier and seating was spread out for social distancing making it an up close, silent, emotional affair. These do not collect personal data. Where is solidarity? He said Malta was closed because of the pandemic. Accept these & enjoy a well-functioning website OR decline these, but then the website could function less well. The “safe corridor” destinations that have been reopened for travel include: Corridor Countries (updated on March 4, 2021) In accordance with L.N 290 of 2020 there is no travel ban for the following countries. At the time Robert Abela led an onslaught on Repubblika, effectively charging the organisation’s leaders and their lawyers with sedition and undermining the government’s efforts to prevent contagion from covid which was less understood then than it is now.