Eco-tourism in small islands
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 07:50
Last update: about 5 years ago
Michael Briguglio
Covid-19 is having continuous considerable impact on tourism around the world. When verifying such impact and possible remedies, one must contextualise evidence and consult with key stakeholders in...
Our prison is festering
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 08:58
Last update: about 5 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
The situation in our prisons is rotten and decayed. The never-ending criticism is not a fib. If one had to join the dots, we would soon realize that this Institution, which has never been...
Paying for their greylist bravado
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 08:57
Last update: about 5 years ago
Peter Agius
We know very well how we got there. Up till a few years back, Malta’s name in Europe suggested sun, sea and maybe that queer old Dom. Now it largely suggests corruption, money laundering,...
Hotels only
Monday, 30 August 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant
The view continues to prevail that all by itself as a new project, a hotel cannot survive. It needs to have in association as an ancillary project the building of apartments and offices. Profits made...
Oh! Calcutta!
Sunday, 29 August 2021, 10:41
Last update: about 5 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
If Satan were available for an interview, the journalist who’d manage to do it would become the paragon of the profession. Interviewing the Great Deceiver would give readers a chance to discover...
Holding banks to account for environmental damage
Sunday, 29 August 2021, 09:40
Last update: about 5 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
When discussing the current environmental onslaught developing around us, we rightly focus on incompetent regulators and greedy developers. It is about time that we also address the role of the banks:...
Saving the Valley of the Spring
Sunday, 29 August 2021, 07:39
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
Some 60 years ago my mother used to occasionally send me to visit her sister at Wied il-Ghajn (as we called it then – the gentrified Marsascala still had to become popular). The village was...
It’s all about Yorgen
Saturday, 28 August 2021, 07:30
Last update: about 5 years ago
Rachel Borg
Yorgen Fenech continues to dominate the news on a daily basis. On Thursday he was arraigned on charges related to the purchase of firearms and explosives on the dark web allegedly made in 2018....
Regulatory sanctions
Thursday, 26 August 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant
Regulatory agencies have come to assume an important role in the running of free market economies as they developed durng the last thirty years. Such agencies were expected to operate independently of...
Court delays worse than injustice
Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 07:48
Last update: about 5 years ago
Peter Agius
Hundreds of citizens are at any one point waiting for justice at our law courts. Small businesses seeking due payment, professionals seeking redress over unjust dismissal or small offenders waiting...