What happened to Islamic banking?
Monday, 29 June 2015, 06:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
In the budget speech, the Government had announced the introduction of Islamic Banking in Malta. A year has nearly passed but there has been no word from Government about this initiative. In the wake...
'Just ignore them. Their hobby is making storms in teacups.'
Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The title I’ve chosen is an actual comment which somebody posted beneath one of the news reports about the Nationalist Party’s press conference yesterday. That press conference was about...
The compromise which can never be accepted
Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The Prime Minister is seeking a compromise which will allow him to proceed with the rape of Iż-Żonqor. It will be acceptable to all bar the extremists the Prime Minister was reported as...
A sense of impotence
Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Noel Grima
Collecting my wits at the end of a day that had seen terror writ large all over the world with three contemporaneous, probably planned, terror attacks, I am filled with an acute sense of...
Deviation on the rise
Sunday, 28 June 2015, 13:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alex Mangion
Over the past months, I could not help but notice that politics has become all about deviation and opportunity rather than politics for the common good. This is indeed a pity and is starting to have...
Education
Saturday, 27 June 2015, 14:27
Last update: about 10 years ago
Rachel Borg
Further education in Malta is relatively new in broad society whilst we still have remnants of the past who cling tenaciously to their political leader and the party machine for their source of...
Labour’s Pop Idol tries dirty dancing
Friday, 26 June 2015, 15:53
Last update: about 10 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
When the first scandals of this Labour government began to emerge, like the Café Premier scandal, Joseph Muscat blamed the missteps on inexperience. Poor guy, he was still in the first episodes...
A Police “Mafia” or a Mafia Police?
Friday, 26 June 2015, 10:41
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
A few years ago, during the previous administration, a police inspector demanded the Magistrates’ Courts to imprison me for two years for sending an email reporting an irregular behaviour of a...
Fossil-hunting in the Council of Europe
Thursday, 25 June 2015, 15:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Wherever that Mintoffian fossil goes, he embarrasses Malta. I don’t mean Reno Calleja and his fixation with Communist China, which he actually preferred in its Chairman Mao days, but Joe Debono...
IDEOLOGY
Thursday, 25 June 2015, 11:04
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
We’ve long been told that ideology died when the Berlin wall fell and globalisation spread. I never believed this fairy story but have always been impressed by the fact that so many...