Freedom is not an easy word. It is hard to obtain freedom, and an even harder quest to manage it. With freedom come huge rights and huge responsibilities. But as big as the challenges are, as huge as the responsibilities turn out to be, freedom must be cherished all the time. Freedom is the basis of what we are today. Malta obtained its de jure and de factofreedom from foreign rulers incrementally. Various episodes and historical figures contributed to this hard-fought que

Three years ago I participated in a UK Public Service Ombudsman meeting hosted in Malta, with the theme “Truth, Transparency and Accountability.” This meeting was covered by this paper and journalists Kevin Schembri Orland and Helena Grech had reported the meeting in a very good manner. This is how they had reported my intervention: Justice Minister Owen Bonnici urged Maltese institutions to debate the right to be forgotten. He said that the state has a duty to provide inform