The Malta Independent 23 April 2024, Tuesday
View E-Paper

Blogs & Opinions

We're doing much better

Thursday, 28 November 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant MEP

It’s difficult not to smile when one hears some people claim that we’re much better now as a member of the EU than we were before we joined. After fifteen years of EU membership, God...

Winning the war against antibiotic resistance

Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 10:02 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

In last week's column, we presented the topic of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and highlighted how resistance to antibiotics is killing 700,000 people globally every year. We also observed how this...

Daphne's murder and the ensuing imbroglio

Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 09:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Following the events connected to the apprehension of the alleged assassin/s of Daphne Caruana Galizia, I feel duty bound to pronounce myself.  To start off I feel jaded. A Country comes of...

Thirteen years later

Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 08:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Tara Cassar

Residents of Żurrieq are fighting to stop a planning control application that if approved, could see a rural landscape in the area of in-Nigret covering just over 12,000 sqmtransformed into yet...

Pensions

Monday, 25 November 2019, 07:56 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant MEP

Discussions now proceeding in countries like Germany, France and Belgium about pensions reform have been raising questions that are greatly relevant, for this country as well.  One major dilemma...

Sea of madness

Sunday, 24 November 2019, 10:56 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Some days ago, José Herrera made a statement on TV with far-reaching implications: according to the latest calculations, Malta’s population stands at 700,000, while some three million...

Hands off the investigation

Sunday, 24 November 2019, 10:41 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The Caruana-Galizia family is right to insist that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should keep his distance from the criminal investigation into the assassination of Daphne.  We should be very...

Today I am convinced there is a heaven

Sunday, 24 November 2019, 08:55 Last update: about 5 years ago Victor Calleja

There are very few things I am convinced of. One of them is that I harbour plenty of doubts. I hate categorical statements of beliefs. I’m not sure of the existence of an after-life but I think...

Between a riot and a rout

Sunday, 24 November 2019, 08:45 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

This has been quite a traumatic week for us. For many months we grumbled and complained that no progress was being registered in the investigations regarding the assassination of Daphne Caruana...

The pantomime is over

Saturday, 23 November 2019, 09:33 Last update: about 5 years ago Rachel Borg

The plan has failed.  The excitement of Labour winning their 55% of the vote is over and the chickens have come home to roost.  Castille is breached. So greedy and arrogant are they...

  • don't miss