Mark Anthony Sammut

This article was first published in The Times on Saturday, August 9, 2014 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140809/opinion/When-tragedies-are-politicised.531124 I read with interest yesterday’s Talking Point by Victor Carachi, president of the General Workers’ Union, as it gives a very good glimpse of the GWU’s partisan agenda. Carachi dedicates the first part of his article to accuse Opposition leader Simon Busuttil of politicising Martin Galea’s abduction. Truth-twisting could not go to a viler extreme. Let’s remember the facts. The government failed to inform the public of Galea’s abduction before the press uncovered it. The government failed to ever update the Opposition with developments in Libya. The government did not even want to discuss a motion on Libya presented in Parliament by the Opposition and chided the Opposition for being “alarmist”, stating the situation in Libya was “calm but fluid” and that “evacuation was off the cards”, a full eight d