PM keeps tight lid on secretly-boosted golden handshakes to his cabinet
Prime Minister Robert Abela has refused to give taxpayers
The Shift Team
4 hours ago
There’s no handshake like a golden handshake
Disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat is the gift
Ryan Murdock
1 day ago
The sixteenth of every month
Wednesday marked 44 months since Daphne Caruana Galizia was
Blanche Gatt
2 days ago
The Greatest of All Time
It is silly season in the football world so
Jacques René Zammit
5 days ago
The secrecy and the formula
Call it extra-sensory empathy or (if you really must)
Ranier Fsadni
6 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: Muscat paid €120,000 in secret golden handshake
Maltese taxpayers have been billed a hefty €120,000 to
The Shift Team
1 week ago
Tarnished gold
Finally, after far too many long years, the European
Blanche Gatt
1 week ago
Uncivil defender of the nation
Alex Agius Saliba’s face, contorted with hostility and wounded
Kevin Cassar
1 week ago
Disgraced PM’s former aide Kurt Farrugia replaces Keith Schembri on Smart City board
Kurt Farrugia – a former top aide of disgraced
The Shift Team
2 weeks ago
With a straight face, Malta signs 87-point UN pledge to end impunity, protect journalists and prosecute corrupt politicians
The Maltese government has signed a United Nations declaration
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
2 weeks ago
You’re bankrolling personal fiefdoms
Robert Abela has problems on his hands, and they’re
Ryan Murdock
2 weeks ago
Parallel scandals
The former prime minister was sentenced to 12 years
Kevin Cassar
3 weeks ago
Former Central Bank Governor gets lucrative sweetener for role in PM’s Finance Ministry shuffles
Prime Minister Robert Abela’s decision last year to oust
4 weeks ago
For the people or against?
“One is either for the people or against” Joseph
Kevin Cassar
1 month ago
The tyranny of hypocrisy 
What a nest of venomous vipers Malta is. So
Blanche Gatt
1 month ago
PM’s office ‘cannot find’ document appointing Hillman as AUM government representative
The Office of the Prime Minister said it cannot
Caroline Muscat
1 May 2021
Hijacked nation
The European Parliament’s resolution condemning the Malta Labour Party’s
Blanche Gatt
1 May 2021
An economy of authentic fakes
It’s easy to think that the Passport Papers are
Ranier Fsadni
25 April 2021
An unsavoury business
Selling citizenship was always an unsavoury business, but surely
Ryan Murdock
23 April 2021
‘Never lived in apartment’ rented out to passport buyer sheds light on rental sham
An advert on Facebook promoting the sale of an
Gabriel Schembri
22 April 2021
Passport Papers: Henley and Partners’ leaked documents show most applicants are from countries where dual citizenship is not permitted
Most applicants for Malta’s cash-for-passports programme who applied for
The Shift Team
22 April 2021
Muscat’s stooge
Where is disgraced former police chief Lawrence Cutajar? This
Blanche Gatt
17 April 2021
Egrant was a house of mirrors
The Shift’s recent investigation into Egrant revealed how the
Ryan Murdock
16 April 2021
Finding Egrant: What we know now
Egrant almost ended up owned by a Brazilian, which
13 April 2021
Marigold Foundation given over €500,000 in taxpayer funds while Joseph Muscat was PM
As NGOs currently navigate increasing red tape to raise
10 April 2021
Are Maltese courts being used to settle Turkey’s political games?
The Maltese courts will decide on the case of
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
9 April 2021
Sorry, not sorry: The political pseudo apology
On 5 April, Labour’s deputy leader, Daniel Micallef, said
Elizabeth De Gaetano
9 April 2021
‘Strong condemnation’ of continued persecution of journalist in Montenegro
International press freedom organisations have jointly condemned the ongoing
2 April 2021
Justice isn’t a game show
Is there anyone in Malta who isn’t desperate to
Ryan Murdock
26 March 2021
Keith Schembri’s disinformation
There was already a lot to unpack in Keith
Elizabeth De Gaetano
22 March 2021