One road fatality is one too many
Sunday, 3 April 2022, 07:56
Last update: about 3 years ago
Faster commuting options is not a luxury but a fatal alternative as compared to a safe commute. Although Malta saw the sharpest decrease in traffic fatalities in the European Union during 2020, the...
Compulsory unionisation is in breach of our Constitution
Sunday, 20 March 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 3 years ago
I refer to the Labour Party’s agreeing in principle with forcing workers to join a union, according to its election manifesto. Unless I am missing out on something, to my mind, should such...
From a disillusioned voter
Sunday, 6 March 2022, 07:15
Last update: about 3 years ago
Unless I decide to stay at home on Election Day or spoil my ballot in some spectacular way, I shall be faced with the choice of voting for the two main political parties, ADPD and probably a handful...
Fine-tuning plea bargaining legislation
Sunday, 13 February 2022, 07:53
Last update: about 3 years ago
Mark Said
Way back in August of 2011, Dr Josè Herrera, reacting to the introduction of the institute of plea bargaining into the Criminal Code through article 453A, had rightly remarked how the amendment...
Appreciation: Albert Fenech
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:42
Last update: about 3 years ago
I first met Albert when he performed an intervention on my uncle at the Brook Hospital in London. I remember the patient being wheeled into the cathlab and wheeled out a short while after. When I was...
Looking back… looking ahead!
Sunday, 9 January 2022, 08:05
Last update: about 3 years ago
Looking back, the Malta Federation of Organisations Persons with Disability (MFOPD) happily notes that last year, 2021, was a positive year for us. First and foremost it was the first (whole)...
End of life treatment
Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:15
Last update: about 4 years ago
We should like to add some comments to those of Professor Pierre Mallia (Independent, 31 October). We welcome and support his call for better end-of-life and palliative care, and for established...
Gieh ir-Repubblika to Caroline Galea
Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:14
Last update: about 4 years ago
On 28 September afternoon Caroline Galea spotted an injured man who happened to be a migrant worker dumped with pain and crying on a curb in the area of Selmun Mellieha. The man happens to be a...
Black lives matter
Saturday, 2 October 2021, 09:01
Last update: about 4 years ago
Do they really in Malta? We have been going from bad to worse. In July 2015, Daboma Jack was assaulted at the Valletta Bus Terminus for no reason at all. On 6 April 2019, Lassana Cisse Souleymane, a...
Appreciation: Carmel Apap Bologna
Sunday, 26 September 2021, 08:57
Last update: about 4 years ago
Baron Carmel Apap Bologna Sceberras D’Amico Inguanez was a teacher to many who encountered him without possibly ever intending to do so. He did so by being true to his upbringing, through his...