Mintoff, Duminku, 1916 - 2012

6th August 1916 – Born in Cospicua toLaurence and Concetta nee Farrugia
1939 - Awarded a Rhodes scholarship where he obtained his qualifications in science and engineering which included MA, BSc and BE&A, A&CE
1935 – Assistant Secretary of the Cospicua Labour Party
1935 – 1937; 1944 – Served as General Secretary of the Labour Party
1945 – Contested the general electrions for the Council of Government
1947 – 1949 – Appointed Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction
1947 – Led delegations to London regarding the Marshall Aid
1947 – Married Moira Bentinck
1949 – Mintoff became the leader of the Malta Labour Party
1950 – 1996 – Contested all general elections
1953 – 1955 – Editor of The Knight
1955 – Became Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance and led a delegation to discuss the question of integration
1958 – Resigned in protest against the Britishand led the Maltese Liberation Movement
1958 – Led a delegation to London to discuss the re-introduction of self-government
1962 – 1971 – Became Leader of Opposition, in light of the MLP’s dispute with the Church
1971 – Removed Sir Maurice Dorman from governor-general and appointed Sir Anthony Mamo instead
1971 – Given the Order of the Republic of Libya
1973 – Given the Grand Cordon De l’Ordre de la Republique of Tunisia
1974 – Chose Mamo as the first president of the Republic of Malta
1978 – Given the Order of the Gran Cordon of Oissam Alaouite from Morocco
1979 – Ended the British military hold on Malta
1980 – Negotiated a protocol neutrality agreement with Italy
1984 - Resigned from Prime Minister and leader of the MLP but retained his parliamentary seat
1990 – Made Companion of the National Order of Merit (KUOM)
1998 – Mintoff voted against the Labour Government on a motion on the Cottonera development
2003 – Campaigned against Malta’s accession to the European Union
2008 – Awarded the Al-Qathafi Prize by the International Committee for the Al-Qathafi Award for Human Rights

Duminku “Dom” Mintoff was born in Cospicua in 1912 and pursued his studies at the Royal University of Malta and then at Oxford University. He entered politics in 1935 as the Labour’s Secretary General and contested the general elections until the 1990s. He was the Leader of the Labour Party until 1984, in times of dispute with the Church in Malta. He also served as minister for finance and for public words and reconstruction. Mintoff worked first for Integration with the British Empire, and then for Malta’s Republic and the end of British military hold on Malta. His foreign policy is neutral such that he made negotiations with Eastern countries in the brink of the Cold War.

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2024). Dom Mintoff. Encyclopedia Britannica.https://www.britannica.com/biography/DomMintoff. Retrieved 2nd November, 2024.

Schiavone, M. (2023). Biography: Dominic Mintoff. Times of Malta. https://timesofmalta.com/article/biographydominic-mintoff.1039572. Retrieved: 2nd November, 2024.

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