Jason vs Jason
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You'd be hard-pressed to find two political figures more different than Jason Azzopardi and Jason Micallef. They share a first name and a flair for bombastic posts on social media. The similarities end there. Azzopardi is a lawyer and former Nationalist Party MP who crusades against the Labour government. Micallef is a Labour official who has vocally defended Labour figures facing corruption allegations. In this hour-long discussion moderated by Mark Laurence Zammit, the two Jasons go head-to-head on some of the hottest political issues in present-day Malta. Expect...
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Yorgen Fenech's bail
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Yorgen Fenech is out of prison, more than five years after he was taken into police custody and charged with complicity in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. We still don't know when Fenech - the millionaire heir to the Tumas Group fortune - will stand trial on those charges. What we do know is that he will be sleeping at home until that happens. Times of Malta journalist Claudia Calleja was in court when a court granted Fenech bail. Her colleague Daniel Ellul was outside prison when he was released. Mark Laurence Zammit speaks to both of them to get some insight into this major...
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The Biggest Industrial Disaster in Malta's History
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On February 2, 1995, a blast rang out at the Malta Drydocks. The Um el Faroud, a Libyan oil tanker, had exploded "like a tin can". Nine people lost their lives. 30 years on, we revisit that disaster with the help of two people who were among the first to reach the scene: court analyst and University of Malta Rector Alfred Vella and Times of Malta deputy online editor Chris Scicluna. This episode was produced by Mark Laurence Zammit, written by Matthew Bonanno and edited by Karl Andrew Micallef.
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The realities facing African migrants in Malta
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In Marsa, dozens of migrants wait by the roadside every morning, hoping to be picked up for casual construction work. Sarjo Conteh, a 31-year-old Gambian man who died in a construction site collapse on July 23, was one of them.
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Could the unsolved murder case of Lino Cauchi be reopened?
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Lino Cauchi's murder remains one of the great unsolved cases in Maltese criminal history.
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Why is the Nationalist Party in such turmoil?
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The Nationalist Party is reeling. Its leader, Adrian Delia, has lost the trust of most of his MPs but is refusing to give up the party leadership.
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Should Malta's colonial monuments be relocated?
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All across the world, protest movements are tearing down monuments and statues which represent more divisive moments in different countries' histories. Is there a case for Malta to do something similar?
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Should you be worried about Malta reopening to tourists?
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Malta International Airport reopened its doors to commercial airlines on July 1, after more than three months of coronavirus-imposed shutdown. We speak to some of the first tourists to visit Malta in the summer of 2020.
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Money, Montenegro and an alleged murder mastermind
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Times of Malta journalist Jacob Borg explains how he worked with Reuters to expose a 2015 deal linking Malta's energy provider Enemalta to the man accused of masterminding the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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A former police chief is linked to a journalist's murder case
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Former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar is now the subject of a criminal investigation over suspicions he may have tipped off a middleman in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
info_outlineYou'd be hard-pressed to find two political figures more different than Jason Azzopardi and Jason Micallef.
They share a first name and a flair for bombastic posts on social media. The similarities end there.
Azzopardi is a lawyer and former Nationalist Party MP who crusades against the Labour government. Micallef is a Labour official who has vocally defended Labour figures facing corruption allegations.
In this hour-long discussion moderated by Mark Laurence Zammit, the two Jasons go head-to-head on some of the hottest political issues in present-day Malta. Expect fireworks.
Produced by Mark Laurence Zammit. Edited by Karl Andrew Micallef.