The last straw
Sunday, 25 April 2021, 09:57
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The situation is now unbearable. The discriminatory gender mechanism introduced in the Constitution by consent of the PNPL duopoly is definitely the last straw. The PNPL duopoly have now been at it...
And what if the anti-vaxers are right?
Sunday, 25 April 2021, 07:58
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
The peoples of the advanced countries of the world are coming under increased pressure to take the anti-Covid vaccine, which are seen as the only way to bring the devastating pandemic under...
The young and the beautiful
Saturday, 24 April 2021, 07:01
Last update: about 6 years ago
Rachel Borg
The most recent crop of Labour cronyism coming to light centres on the young and the beautiful. From the busy and efficient Rosianne Cutajar, moonlighting into a real estate agent, to other...
A clean bill of health
Friday, 23 April 2021, 07:47
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
This is a reformist Government. Ever since the Labour administration was elected to lead this country, it embarked on a journey of implementing a series of institutional and social reforms which had...
Social media
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
I still have not found anywhere a study the covers comprehensively how the social media are impacting on the quality of life of us all. Those who remember how life was before the emergence of...
Be the change
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 07:50
Last update: about 6 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
Malta has been under siege by political events for most of the past eight years. What was sold as the best time for our country in the run up for the 2013 general election, a dream, has become a...
NGOs cannot afford another thumping
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 08:08
Last update: about 6 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
Our NGOs have been on the receiving end of another thumping, the latest one being legal notices that went through the parliamentary system and passed right under the nose of every Government and...
Cost of insularity and the future of Malta in Europe
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 07:45
Last update: about 6 years ago
Peter Agius
Europe needs to reconnect with citizens and listen better to their needs and aspirations. All the European politicians I have met over the past years, from Tajani to Juncker to many others in...
Digital protection
Monday, 19 April 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
The chairman of the American Central Bank – or better the Federal Reserve Board – made a statement during a televised interview that really surprised me. He confessed that the greatest...
A cremated idea?
Sunday, 18 April 2021, 10:07
Last update: about 6 years ago
Charles Flores
I first wrote in The Malta Independent at its inception, way back in the early 1990s, when I raised the case for cremation, until then a pretty hush-hushed issue within Maltese society because of some...