The media arms on opposite sides of the political arena have requested intervention in a constitutional case filed by Lovin Malta challenging a law that allows such party stations to bypass the principle of impartiality.
A provision under the Broadcasting Act, namely the proviso to Article 13, allowed the broadcasting watchdog to “close an eye” on the manner of operation of party-owned stations, considering the general output of programmes “together as a whole.”
At the time when that law came into effect, the government of the day had argued that party-owned stations, with their essentially “partisan message,” would eventually balance each other out.
Only the conclusions of the public inquiry into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia will be published as judges start compiling report • Messages between Yorgen Fenech and people who testified in inquiry submitted for scrutiny
Yorgen Fenech, the chief suspect in the Daphne Caruana Galizia investigation had told police before his first request for a pardon was rejected that he felt &ld
Malta government paid for Libya pushbacks ‘three to four’ times, shipper reveals
Carmelo Grech, the owner of the Libyan-flagged fishing vessel Dar Es Salaam 1 has revealed that the Maltese government paid for pushbacks multiple times
19 May 2021, 3:49pm
by Matthew Agius
The Maltese government paid for pushbacks by the Dar Es Salaam 1 “three to four times”, the vessel’s owner has told a judge this afternoon.
Mr Justice Lawrence Mintoff is hearing the case against Prime Minister Robert Abela, National Security and Law Enforcement Minister Byron Camilleri and AFM Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi, filed by lawyers Paul Borg Olivier and Eve Borg Costanzi on behalf of 52 would-be asylum seekers who had been pushed back to Libya in the Spring of 2020.