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The governance of our coast

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 07:58 Last update: about 2 years ago Michael Briguglio

Given Malta's small size, it is no surprise that areas along the Maltese coast, such as Manoel Islands and Comino, to name two current examples, regularly feature as sites of contention between...

Free access to the registry of sex offenders

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 07:57 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

Once more, in light of the arrest and prosecution of two Maltese men involved in a major global child pornography racket some time ago, calls have grown for the government to make Malta's sex offender...

Historical ties

Monday, 23 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

The history of ties which a community had with foreign societies over the centuries unfailingly includes unpleasant episodes. Not least in Europe, where imperialism has always been a leading factor in...

Cruel displays

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:45 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

On March 26 Donald Trump's Homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, visited the high security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who were allegedly gang members living in the US were deported to....

Gozo: Summer ease, island life

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:44 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Sunrays leaked over Ta' Ċenċ cliffs on June 21 at 4:42 on solstice (elevation) morning and Gozo stirred as if someone flicked a light inside every limestone crevice. Sea gulls dart through...

Leadership that moves a nation

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:43 Last update: about 2 years ago Darren Carabott

The unexpected resignation of Bernard Grech last week ignited a flurry of discussion both within the Nationalist Party as well as at a national level, about Malta's political future. Leaders of...

Your Song

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:42 Last update: about 2 years ago Valerie Visanich

Step aside, Swift, there's a new star in town, and it doesn't need a microphone. Artificial Intelligence is now writing lyrics, composing melodies, and even creating its own tunes. What was once the...

Regulating the building industry: an absence of good faith

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:40 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

During the past days we had many experts roaming about and advising us as to the cause of the building collapse at Paceville. Realistically speaking, we are too early to conclude as to what caused the...

Murder, we will be writing

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 07:46 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

Further to the launching of the public consultation on voluntary assisted dying for terminally ill patients, everything seems to be pointing in one direction: we will eventually have a law in place...

Malta in ruins, and not because of war

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 06:50 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

Wednesday 10pm. A US Air Force plane that took off from Sigonella airfield near Catania has been patrolling the sea to the East of Malta for some hours going over and over the same area. If the...

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