Dictatorship?
Saturday, 20 March 2021, 09:02
Last update: about 6 years ago
Rachel Borg
We are living what can be described as a dictatorship in Malta. Nothing short of that. As happens to people in many countries that face this fate, their reality is altered and their life becomes...
Resilience is our trademark
Friday, 19 March 2021, 08:03
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
If there is one feature which stands outs clearly and markedly in the Maltese population, it is resilience. We are a nation of people who know what it means to work hard and know that the greater the...
Looking Back
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 08:22
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
In the controversies and discussions that have continued about the abuse of power and other forms of unacceptable behaviour one discovers how those who are most vocal in denouncing abuses, then shy...
Physical distance, social contact
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 08:18
Last update: about 6 years ago
Michael Briguglio
The high numbers and the respective reproduction rate of Covid-19 are not mere abstractions. Behind the numbers there are deaths and there is suffering. Even if a person or their loved ones have...
Governance pandemonium
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 08:32
Last update: about 6 years ago
Peter Agius
Last week I was on radio while a listener called in saying that ‘Robert Abela wants to kill our senior citizens’. The gentleman then referred to how authorities were sending twice for the...
Joseph Muscat and my epiphany
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 08:21
Last update: about 6 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
In 2013 the need for a change in the political landscape was there for all to see. The state of the Nationalist Party was that of complete disarray. It was a Party that had lost its...
Locked out
Monday, 15 March 2021, 09:08
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
There was no other alternative to the decision that was taken. The number of infections had increased so much in the past weeks that urgent and drastic action was needed to contain the damage....
Shifting tectonic plates
Sunday, 14 March 2021, 09:30
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
The thoughts uppermost in the minds of most people these terrible days are taken up by concerns about the spread of the virus and the vertiginous spike in the number of infected persons that have led...
Country before Party: a Matter of Urgency
Sunday, 14 March 2021, 09:14
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
I think by now it's beyond dispute that Joseph Muscat's roadmap was to pander to a particular radical-liberal lobby to secure a robust majority behind which he and his minions could hide to carry out...
A post-Covid future
Sunday, 14 March 2021, 09:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
It is too simplistic to state that the surge in Covid-19 new cases is the unique responsibility of more efficient strains of the virus. The efficient virus was without doubt, for quite some time,...