Gozo extremes
Monday, 24 January 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
Over the years it became very clear that two models were competing with each other about how Gozo’s development strategy should be conducted. One focussed on the need to preserve as much as...
Why Malta should worry
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 10:31
Last update: about 6 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“What I can say is that, maybe without precedent, in these last two years we have not had a single, not a single episode of bad governance,” Prime Minister Robert Abela boldly...
Climate change requires behavioural change
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 09:32
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Climate change is nature’s reaction to the cumulative impacts it has sustained as a result of human behaviour over the years. Long periods of drought or intensive rainfall leading to flooding,...
The bird made of lead
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 08:33
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
In the 1970s, when Dom Mintoff was setting up Air Malta, some Nationalists came up with a doggerell children used to sing “Ghasfur tac-comb itir” This caused, as I remember, a huge...
Cost of living surge
Saturday, 22 January 2022, 08:27
Last update: about 6 years ago
Rachel Borg
Statistics are not really going to accurately describe the reality of the cost of living in Malta. For a more realistic picture we need to trust our senses and our instincts. They tell us...
A safe pair of hands
Friday, 21 January 2022, 10:53
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
One of the things that stands out immediately in any encounter I have with families and people at large is the wide realisation that Robert Abela has proven to be, time and time again, a safe pair of...
Project duration
Thursday, 20 January 2022, 07:55
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
I used to believe that a most useful condition that could be placed on a construction project (big or small, public or private) when the necessary permits are being issued would be that the project is...
Metsola’s moment
Thursday, 20 January 2022, 06:54
Last update: about 6 years ago
Michael Briguglio
Roberta Metsola's impressive election to the post of President of the European Parliament was no surprise to those who know how effective she is in her political career. Both as a colleague and...
The Air Malta chop
Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 07:01
Last update: about 6 years ago
Peter Agius
890 families are still coming to terms with Minister Clyde Caruana’s announcement last week that Air Malta would lay off 420 of their own working there. They still cannot understand how they are...
Freedom of the press
Monday, 17 January 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
Personally I doubt whether the freedom of the press has deteriorated so much in recent years, compared to what it was, let’s say, twenty five or forty years ago. Journalism in Malta always...