Joseph Muscat belongs in football
Sunday, 27 November 2022, 08:49
Last update: about 5 years ago
Kevin Cassar
As billions of football fans around the world watch the world cup football, few acknowledge the black cloud of scandal that engulfed FIFA’s dodgy decision to hold the world cup in...
Labour’s half-baked abortion proposal
Sunday, 27 November 2022, 07:51
Last update: about 5 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
On Monday Parliament approved at first reading stage Bill number 28, a Bill that seeks to clarify the provisions of the Criminal Code relative to therapeutic abortion. Specifically, the objects and...
Change the procedures so the really guilty do not get off scot-free
Sunday, 27 November 2022, 07:48
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
When, on Tuesday morning, we began hearing about a murder that had just taken place at Corradino where a man shot and killed a woman, I am certain that many of us ran through our list of people we...
Standards
Friday, 25 November 2022, 08:16
Last update: about 5 years ago
Owen Bonnici
Can someone explain how a person is considered perfectly capable to fill the all important post of Chief Justice, but then, a few years down the line, that same person is deemed by the Opposition...
Open political debate
Thursday, 24 November 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant
A political custom that has been lost over the years was that of open debates held internally by the political parties. I remember how in the past – but this goes back almost to before I...
The race against climate change
Monday, 21 November 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant
We are in a desperate race to counter global climate warming in time -- so we are told, not least as recently as at the COP conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. But no matter what you read or who you speak...
The demise of public relations
Sunday, 20 November 2022, 10:34
Last update: about 5 years ago
Mary Muscat
“The public service’s PR in general has long been dead. It might sound like a sweeping statement, but look at how the Phoneline 153 took over from the departmental...
Wanted: a transport policy which makes sense
Sunday, 20 November 2022, 08:31
Last update: about 5 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Everywhere is within reach in the Maltese islands: distances are relatively small. It is, in addition, an established fact, documented in the Transport master plan, that 50 per cent of private car...
The age of decadence
Sunday, 20 November 2022, 08:30
Last update: about 5 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“Why do you keep defending Owen Bonnici?”, Robert Abela was asked. “Because I have full trust in him,” came Abela’s curt reply. Abela sees vices as virtues and...
Unravelling the arts deficit
Sunday, 20 November 2022, 07:29
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
In future times when people will get to analyse our time they will most probably conclude that this has not been a good time for the spread of the arts in our country. There is a lack of the...