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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...

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