Labour costs
Monday, 22 June 2015, 06:39
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
It’s news to make one feel good. According to the European statistical office Eurostat, the income of employees in Malta and Gozo has recently been increasing at a higher rate than the European...
We can’t all be bought, threatened or cowed into submission
Sunday, 21 June 2015, 18:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Yesterday’s demonstration was the first clear message to the Labour government that we can’t all be bought, threatened or cowed into submission. As pro-environment demonstrations go, this...
The counter-tsunami
Sunday, 21 June 2015, 13:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
Noel Grima
Sooner or later, it had to happen. The continued, unabated, influx of asylum-seekers from the disturbed regions of the world, across porous frontiers and a treacherous Mediterranean, has now...
The Freeport’s neighbours at Birżebbuġa
Sunday, 21 June 2015, 13:58
Last update: about 10 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Two incidents occurred at the Freeport Terminal last week. The first led to the spill of an oily-like chemical when a container was accidentally hit and part of its contents spilled out into the sea....
Mandarin for finger
Sunday, 21 June 2015, 09:56
Last update: about 10 years ago
Charles Flores
I predicted on national radio last Sunday that Opposition leader Simon Busuttil’s forthcoming visit to the People’s Republic of China will be one of the major issues up for discussion by...
Public scrutiny
Saturday, 20 June 2015, 13:54
Last update: about 10 years ago
Rachel Borg
It would appear that the parliamentary sessions have reached an impasse. Each attempt at public scrutiny is met with defence mechanisms that are bordering on contempt. The atmosphere...
Studying history at the University of Malta
Saturday, 20 June 2015, 08:43
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
History is not a usual topic of controversy but the material generated through historical research can sometimes stir up debate. It falls within the branch of the so-called Humanities;a word that has...
Now you see them, now you don’t
Friday, 19 June 2015, 12:11
Last update: about 10 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
When Stephen Sondheim wrote his classic “Send in the Clowns” back in 1973 he surely had no idea it would be so appropriate for Malta in 2015. The song is a very sad reflection on the...
Joseph’s all-you-can-eat buffet
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 09:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
When Joseph Muscat was leader of the Opposition, he wound people up and stirred the pot of public dissatisfaction by making out that there was some kind of clique – and more to the point, an...
Interest
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 08:58
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
We're at a time when interest rates on borrowed funds were never so low. True, recently there have been some weak upward pressures on rates. But when did it ever happen that some borrowings are being...