Government housing
Thursday, 14 February 2019, 08:06
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
The government has rightly decided to not simply provide more buildings to serve as social housing. Beyond this, it plans to monitor how the buildings are run and to ensure that the new residents...
The suicide notes
Wednesday, 13 February 2019, 08:06
Last update: about 6 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By...
A lion that squeaks like a rat
Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 07:49
Last update: about 6 years ago
Charles Flores
Both the social and traditional media were agog last week in reaction to what can only be described as a vicious Facebook post by Leone Ganado, a Maltese Church consultant. This lion of uncompromising...
How ironic that we crowned ourselves as Homo Sapiens, the wise men
Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 07:47
Last update: about 6 years ago
Camilla Appelgren
In nature there is one core rule to survive and safeguard your species’ future; the rule of sustainability. Everything on the planet of Earth form part of the ecosystem that makes life possible....
How Joseph rules Malta
Monday, 11 February 2019, 11:43
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
In 1960, Dom Mintoff published a short pamphlet called How Britain Rules Malta. It is the inspiration for the title of today’s article. A couple of years ago, I visited Belarus, the only...
Facts
Monday, 11 February 2019, 07:35
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
In past weeks, international institutions have opened their guns on “investment migration” schemes, as they are now being called – schemes that is, similar to the one being run from...
Constitutional reform: identifying the basic building blocks
Sunday, 10 February 2019, 10:30
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Malta’s Constitution should be regarded as a living document: one that reflects our values and aspirations. These, naturally, change over time and it is consequently logical that this is...
We will never let Labour trump the people
Sunday, 10 February 2019, 10:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Adrian Delia
Last Thursday, on behalf of the government, Minister Konrad Mizzi withdrew the Parliamentary resolution to hand over a massive piece of land to Corinthia Group. From the day that the resolution was...
Did Malta’s patron saint land in the wrong place?
Sunday, 10 February 2019, 09:30
Last update: about 6 years ago
Victor Calleja
Today is the day Malta seems united as it celebrates one thing: St Paul, the man who saw the light in Damascus, was shipwrecked in Malta and converted us to Christianity. Whether it was...
Counting chickens
Sunday, 10 February 2019, 09:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
The repeated polls by MaltaToday, and probably by others, keep saying that the PL will thrash the PN in May’s European Parliament elections and the limited local council elections by a margin...