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...