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Maltese identity

Monday, 24 July 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

A discussion about the Maltese identity is not meanginless, as some would like to pretend. It highlights how we should consider ourselves as a community, and what makes us similar to or different from...

Rethinking standards in public life

Sunday, 23 July 2023, 08:49 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

Professor Arnold Cassola is a regular complainant to the Office of the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life. Through these public-spirited complaints, the Commissioner is requested to investigate...

MATSEC failures, Labour’s delight

Sunday, 23 July 2023, 08:41 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

The MATSEC results have just been published. And it’s a disaster. One in every four students who sat for Maths or Maltese failed. Almost one in every three either failed or didn’t...

Summer blackouts: with Ira Losco, in open spaces

Sunday, 23 July 2023, 08:36 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

At the time of writing multiple localities are trying to cope with night-long power cuts. In some cases, Enemalta Corporation maintenance personnel have been successful in carrying out repairs...

It’s not just the high temperature

Sunday, 23 July 2023, 07:50 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

We began this week with two massive crowd assemblies. First on Monday the protest against Jean Paul Sofia’s death and in support of the battle admirably waged by his mother for a public inquiry...

Justice

Friday, 21 July 2023, 08:58 Last update: about 4 years ago Owen Bonnici

I am a firm believer in the notion that the best route to obtain justice is through the application of the law by an institutionally independent and impartial Judge and Magistrate who enjoys all the...

Jean Paul Sofia galvanised a nation

Thursday, 20 July 2023, 12:02 Last update: about 4 years ago Michael Briguglio

Jean Paul Sofia galvanised a nation. How misguided it is to speak of Malta as some sub-democratic state made up of mindless and docile masses! Quite the contrary. The campaign spearheaded by Jean...

Affirmative programmes

Thursday, 20 July 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

For many years, the US was at the very forefront of concrete efforts to affirm human rights by implementing programmes still titled “affirmative” in a number of different sectors,...

The problem of medicines

Monday, 17 July 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

In a country of our size, it is inevitable that problems arise when we need to ensure that enough stocks of the vital products we need are available. This has always been a problem. It arises in...

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