Killing me softly
Sunday, 25 May 2025, 08:30
Last update: about 2 years ago
Valerie Visanich
Some argue that it is about shortening life. Others say it shortens death. The debate is complex; deeply personal, yet raises ethical, legal, and spiritual questions. Assisted dying debates are...
Ferry jam: Gozo at a standstill
Sunday, 25 May 2025, 08:29
Last update: about 2 years ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
Brake lights shimmer like a slow-moving necklace across Triq il-Marfa towards Cirkewwa. Drivers scroll social feeds, anxious whether they will miss their scheduled appointments and grumble because...
Promising heaven on earth
Sunday, 25 May 2025, 07:28
Last update: about 2 years ago
Mark Said
In an ideal world, an election manifesto would set out a political party's honest intentions about what it would do if it were in government. However, parties will always be tempted to overpromise to...
Three crises in a hothouse
Sunday, 25 May 2025, 07:21
Last update: about 2 years ago
Noel Grima
To outsiders the past days may have gone by with nothing unusual to record, except hotter days and the annual Eurovision flutter. But for us, born or bred on this island, the past days came with...
Resilience
Friday, 23 May 2025, 08:48
Last update: about 2 years ago
Owen Bonnici
From the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where I accompanied Prime Minister Robert Abela on a state visit, I called Miriana Conte in Switzerland and on behalf of the people of Malta, and the government,...
Labour's junta at Għargħur
Friday, 23 May 2025, 08:46
Last update: about 2 years ago
Mark Said
Let me state it clearly from the outset: the no-confidence motion against the Nationalist Mayor Helen Gauci presented by the Labour Party councillors within the Għargħur local council was in...
Unending construction
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 2 years ago
Alfred Sant
About this matter I've written before and much fear it will remain on the agenda in future, for it's really shameful. A construction project commences in a given street. Till it's finished, a whole...
Mental health
Monday, 19 May 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 2 years ago
Alfred Sant
An area of social policy in which this country has been achieving substantial progress - and still does - is health care. All governments and the Labour government especially have improved and...
Petty pigheadedness
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 08:43
Last update: about 2 years ago
Kevin Cassar
Alex Borg was roundly condemned by the Standards Commissioner for "resorting to deceit" to "justify his vote" in favour of the Chambray concessionaires. The Commissioner concluded that "Borg's...
Think positive: dignified life before dignified death
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 08:41
Last update: about 2 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The idiomatic expression on placing the cart before the horse signifies the reversal of the proper order of things. This is what the consultation document published by government on Assisted...