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Not that they live happily ever after

Sunday, 16 February 2025, 07:16 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

In the 21st century, nobody would have believed that we do have that cursed practice of arranged and forced child marriages in Malta. It is growing increasingly unsettling to read that, as a matter of...

At last, a sort of agreement

Sunday, 16 February 2025, 07:15 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

Fresh from an EU special summit on defence, Prime Minister Robert Abela spoke on Malta's defence spending in words that alarmed some, and gave his opponents an opportunity to kick him again. But no...

The numbers that show a robust arts and cultural sector

Friday, 14 February 2025, 08:16 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

Numbers can be boring. Admittedly, they weren't my favourite at school. But they are of course important tools and metrics that we need to properly analyse. Today, I am...

Agriculture in Malta

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

The news that a Maltese agricultural item, cheeselets made from sheep's milk, is getting the status of an original product, on a European basis, was very welcome. As a matter of fact, many speeches...

Justice in Palestine

Monday, 10 February 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

(Excerpt from a play which will not be written.)             Enter Israeli PM NETANYAHU with trusted  ADVISORS. He has just returned...

Bill No 125 – The latest nail in the rule of law coffin

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:42 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Aquilina

The undeclared purpose of Bill No. 125 ('the Bill') of 31 January 2025 is to minimise governmental accountability and embed therein the culture of impunity into Maltese Law. It is not dictated by the...

Labour’s lurid circus of cruelty

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:41 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

In the week before Christmas Robert Abela's Labour launched an attack on former Police Commissioner John Rizzo.  As he grappled with personal tragedy Labour savagely bashed Rizzo for cheap...

Gozo’s roads: A crisis ignored for too long

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:41 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Gozo's roads have become death traps, and Transport Malta does nothing about it and remains indifferent. From St Francis Square to the notorious Mġarr Road, the situation spirals out of control....

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