Coronavirus and policy quandaries
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 09:56
Last update: about 5 years ago
Michael Briguglio
The Coronavirus experience presents policymakers with various quandaries on how to best manage risks. In policymaking, every decision has consequences which may also include unintended ones. Policy...
Political work
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 07:56
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant MEP
That Julia Farrugia Portelli as a minister and other MPs have been caught in the quarantine net made necessary by the Coronavirus pandemic, is unsurprising. The work of politicians is precisely that...
Two contexts – one response!
Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 07:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
The sound of the doorbell. We hold our breadth as mum walked down the 23 steps to our door. We lived in a maisonette in a very conspicuous road on the periphery of Birkirkara. I remained upstairs...
Multi-storey hotel planned for Swieqi
Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 06:41
Last update: about 5 years ago
Tara Cassar
Over recent years the Planning Authority [PA] has processed, and more often than not approved, dozens of requests to develop multi-storey hotels. One recent request that has caused apprehension...
The frontiers of globalisation
Monday, 16 March 2020, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant MEP
The corona virus pandemic has brought home in a big way the lesson that with globalisation, frontiers have lost all effectiveness in defending people. To be sure, when in the past epidemics...
Virus, virus, everywhere
Sunday, 15 March 2020, 11:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
As sixth-form biology students, we learnt that viruses lie on the outskirts of life. They need a host to replicate, which they do by “hijacking” the host’s cellular machinery,...
Coronavirus: predictions and precautions
Sunday, 15 March 2020, 10:06
Last update: about 5 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The declaration by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, earlier this week, on the possibility that between 60 and 70 per cent of the German population could eventually be infected by the Coronavirus may...
May the force of hope be with us
Sunday, 15 March 2020, 09:04
Last update: about 5 years ago
Victor Calleja
These last 29 months my world has been nothing short of a roller coaster. A time of hatred, a time of love. A time of endless conflict and what seemed like total desperation. Just under two and a...
Coronavirus – the next stage, and the one after that
Sunday, 15 March 2020, 08:16
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
As I begin writing, at 12.30pm on Friday, the news is of 12 confirmed cases of Coronavirus infections, no deaths so far and all cases 'imported', ie not home-grown. And patient 2 is out of danger and...