Cruel
Monday, 29 April 2024, 08:00
Last update: about 3 days ago
Alfred Sant MEP
Parliamentary democracy is the best tool by which to ensure that the will of the people is being enforced by a government that executes the wishes of the majority of citizens. When well run, democracy...
Regulating the building industry
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 09:01
Last update: about 5 days ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Regulating the building industry requires the political will to act in an industry that has repeatedly opposed and defied regulation. Last week’s fatal accident at St Ignatius Junction in Sliema...
Gozo: The tunnel project is dead and buried
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 08:17
Last update: about 5 days ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
Although the authorities may have shelved the proposed Gozo tunnel project, recent remarks from the CEO of the Gozo Business Chamber - GBC resurrected the issue in a surprising manner. The state of...
An island saddled with political scandals
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 08:14
Last update: about 5 days ago
Mark Said
Eleven years after the last change in administration, Malta has been mired in a crisis of governance. The conduct of many politicians, public officials, and government institutions was so pervasively...
We will only ever have one Malta
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 08:13
Last update: about 5 days ago
Darren Carabott
If there is one area in which this administration has failed most spectacularly, it is definitely the environment. From billboards declaring that the environment would become a priority, we have seen...
Eternal fascism
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 08:04
Last update: about 5 days ago
Kevin Cassar
In 1995, Umberto Eco published one of his masterpieces: Eternal fascism - 14 ways of looking at a Blackshirt. Eco lived through Mussolini’s dark years. He tasted the bitterness of fascism....
Contrasting numbers: EP election vs poverty line
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 07:04
Last update: about 5 days ago
Noel Grima
We live in a time of contrasting numbers. On the one hand the coming European Parliament election will offer a snapshot of sorts of our country. On the other hand we have been offered the latest...
End of a mandate
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 08:00
Last update: about 6 days ago
Alfred Sant MEP
Even if one is not fanatically pro how the EU and its Parliament operate (which I surely am not), after having participated in the latter institution for a while, one still experiences the end of a...
Conformism
Monday, 22 April 2024, 08:00
Last update: about 10 days ago
Alfred Sant MEP
Are the Maltese a people of conformists? That was the rather strange question that a friend whom I had not seen for many years during most of which he had been away, asked me. Before he left he did...
Tourism: the industry does not care
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 08:22
Last update: about 12 days ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Notwithstanding the increasing numbers of incoming tourists, the tourism industry is currently in a self-destructive mode. After the carrying capacity study published by the Malta Hotels and...