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...
When success means dismal failure
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 10:14
Last update: about 6 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“This is another success story,” Konrad Mizzi boasted on 23 March 2019. Air Malta, he bragged, returned to profitability after two decades. Mizzi falsely claimed the company registered...
The unbearable lightness
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 09:39
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
Is democracy inherently chaotic? Or is it just the pandemic? Let’s try to answer by analysing a pressing problem: climate change. A year ago almost to the day – on January 19,...
The resignation of David Thake
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:55
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The resignation of David Thake is a positive step. It takes courage to admit to having acted incorrectly and shoulder the political responsibility for your actions. There are others who should...
Probing the debt hole
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:36
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
Our attention span being what it is, our mind flips from issue to issue but many issues fall beneath our radar and are instantly forgotten when many times they are what we should be focusing...