TMID Editorial: Standards Commission - More powers to the Commissioner

The past week saw Parliament’s Standards Commissioner George Hyzler find that a government minister – Carmelo Abela – had breached parliamentary ethics by using public funds to pay for an advert which was deemed to be intended on boosting his own political profile rather than providing any information of value to the public. The report did not come

Publish and raise standards

It is becoming increasingly clear that it is not only the independent media which struggle to continue doing their duty in a democratic society, by giving the people the information they have a right to. The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life is worried about attempts to suppress publication of his reports. George Hyzler has now rightly decided

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TMID Editorial: Standards Commission - More powers to the Commissioner

Publish and raise standards

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