Farm land
Monday, 20 May 2024, 07:54
Last update: about 21 hours ago
Alfred Sant MEP
At present, awareness on the island regarding the need to preserve what remains of our farmland has become great. As I see it, a “total” moratorium to not allow new buildings on arable...
Angelo Gafà’s concerns
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 08:44
Last update: about 2 days ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The Commissioner of Police, Angelo Gafà, is playing games. These games can have dire consequences. Consider the complaint filed some months ago by River of Love Pastor Gordon...
Gozo: Let’s walk the talk, Prime Minister!
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 08:39
Last update: about 2 days ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
Since my earliest memories – almost sixty years – when elections loom, government officials intensify their outreach efforts to woo us, the Gozitans. As a distinct district, Gozo...
What harming Malta looks like
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 08:37
Last update: about 2 days ago
Kevin Cassar
“Justice does not mean political terrorism,” Malta’s Prime Minister Robert Abela warned in his depressingly partisan press conference. Abela was still at it, waging all-out war...
Before it is too late
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 08:34
Last update: about 2 days ago
Mark Said
We have an overpopulation figure of 533,286 as of 2023, 800,000 by 2040, with more than 1 in 5 being foreign, coupled with a low fertility rate. We know that this situation can no longer be...
When a hand flick is much more than a flick
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 07:53
Last update: about 2 days ago
Victor Calleja
One of the most lasting moments in modern history caught on film and etched in the memory bank of a country is surely when Roberta Metsola flicked Joseph Muscat away and refused to shake his...
Tandem politics
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 06:47
Last update: about 2 days ago
Noel Grima
It’s the marching season again and that of political mass gatherings after a hiatus of some months from the time of the last general election. But still, it is rather strange to have two...
Preserving our culture, one locality at a time
Friday, 17 May 2024, 08:30
Last update: about 2 days ago
Owen Bonnici
Amongst the many initiatives we have introduced, one of the most popular is surely the Restoration Works Scheme for Local Councils, aimed at further appreciating the historical heritage found in...
Israel and those against
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 08:00
Last update: about 5 days ago
Alfred Sant MEP
When I was a kid, there was already conflict in Palestine and it has never ceased. In those years, European peoples, not least in Malta, were much in sympathy with the Israelis. They were seen as a...
Stop mocking us
Sunday, 11 February 2024, 08:55
Last update: about 4 months ago
Kevin Cassar
It's been a year since Robert Abela rammed through his anti-deadlock legal amendment, making former Chief Justice Joseph Azzopardi Standards Commissioner. Since then not a single MP has been...