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Instead of quotas

Monday, 1 April 2019, 07:55 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The government’s proposal regarding how to increase the representation of women in the Maltese Parliament deserves support. At last a concrete measure has been set forward to resolve a...

A note of appreciation

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 09:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Marie Louise Coleiro Preca

It has been my honour and privilege to have had this opportunity to be able to share with you, as one of you, these past five years as President of the Republic of Malta. Throughout that time, I...

A Gallimaufry of Stupidity, Selfishness and Spiritedness

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 09:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

This is one of those weeks when, instead of tackling one theme, I have to flit from one theme to another, ranging from stupidity to selfishness, to spiritedness. The stupidity of the pro-abortion...

Transport policy: a hidden agenda?

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Mishandling all matters relating to transport policy, the government is continuously sending conflicting signals, depending on who is listening at a particular moment. Way back in September 2017,...

Freedom Day: another National Disaster Day

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 08:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Politics is the art of making the impossible seem possible. But in Malta, politics has been reduced to making all things mad and surreal. Forty years ago the Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff -...

Muscat’s jokes

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 08:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

They cannot be anything else. They are jokes, probably invented at a dull moment in Castile to liven things up, to distract the electorate from weightier issues such as transparency and governance, to...

Call Saul

Saturday, 30 March 2019, 09:16 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

It would well appear that Minister Konrad Mizzi has once again delivered.  This time at the offices of our national airline, Air Malta.  Having turned what was a loss of €10.8 million...

The voice of artists

Friday, 29 March 2019, 10:49 Last update: about 6 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit Dimech speaks about his work to be the voice of artists. He said that through his work he was ensuring that performers, singers, song writers, musicians, authors and...

Hard work

Friday, 29 March 2019, 08:27 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

The legal profession is a vocation based on expertise in the law and in its applications. Addressing the 114 lawyers who received their warrant this week, I highlighted the importance and...

Good will always triumph over evil

Thursday, 28 March 2019, 11:07 Last update: about 6 years ago Marlene Mizzi

The nightmarish episode of the terrorist attack on innocent Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand, left the world temporarily speechless. Not for the first time, society has sadly but...

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