It seems that Santa has been carrying a bag full of goodies for journalists and one full of coals for the general public.
Generally this is the time of year when hard stories become hard to find. Journalists have to make do with human and good feel stories which sometimes they have to scrape from myriad sources. This year Santa decreed that things should be completely different. The judiciary, politicians and the underworld were harnessed so that journalists would be spoilt for choice.
Just have a cursory look at this week.
Parliament has been dissolved after Government lost a money bill. Government and the Opposition were miles apart. You say yes, I say no syndrome. But the man who carried (or run away with) the day was Franco Debono who has since been given the title as The Most Irrelevant One.
The date for the dissolution of Parliament was set for January 7 and that for the election has been set for March 9 – coincidentally the birthday of the Lawyer from Hal Ghaxaq.
The ink had not even dried on the edict to dissolve Parliament when the Prime Minister hinted that Parliament could reconvene to consider an impeachment motion against Judge Ray Pace who has been arraigned in...
↧