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Regulating the building industry: an absence of good faith

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:40 Last update: about 13 days ago Carmel Cacopardo

During the past days we had many experts roaming about and advising us as to the cause of the building collapse at Paceville. Realistically speaking, we are too early to conclude as to what caused the...

Murder, we will be writing

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 07:46 Last update: about 16 days ago Mark Said

Further to the launching of the public consultation on voluntary assisted dying for terminally ill patients, everything seems to be pointing in one direction: we will eventually have a law in place...

Malta in ruins, and not because of war

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 06:50 Last update: about 15 days ago Noel Grima

Wednesday 10pm. A US Air Force plane that took off from Sigonella airfield near Catania has been patrolling the sea to the East of Malta for some hours going over and over the same area. If the...

A PN in chaos

Friday, 20 June 2025, 09:38 Last update: about 15 days ago Owen Bonnici

As I write, the Nationalist Party is in deep trouble. Bernard Grech resigned abruptly, leaving his party to pick up the pieces. Roberta Metsola, who many portrayed her as the new PN 'messiah' ended up...

Populism

Thursday, 19 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 17 days ago Alfred Sant

For political analysts it's become normal procedure to fire away the argument that this or that politician, or this or that political strategy, amounts to "populism". Initially this was considered the...

Bernard Grech's ebbing popularity

Thursday, 19 June 2025, 07:56 Last update: about 16 days ago Mark Said

One of the measures of performance for a politician is how well he does in the polls, and even more so for the party leader who is expected to be the lead in everything in the election campaign. Bleak...

Pity

Monday, 16 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 20 days ago Alfred Sant

As far as I can see, the report has been given scant attention but it deserves to be read closely. Written in an objective and factual manner, it evaluates intelligently the island's economic success...

Voting against the people

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 08:21 Last update: about 22 days ago Kevin Cassar

Robert Abela flew into a rage.  The Opposition decided to vote against Abela's latest constitutional amendments.  Stomping his feet, Abela accused Bernard Grech of "stomping his feet". ...

The 20th and 21st genocide centuries

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 08:19 Last update: about 22 days ago Kevin Aquilina

When the luminary Raphael Lemkin, a Jew and the Father of International Criminal Genocide Law, was coining the word 'genocide' and compiling his excellent studies on the various genocides/holocaust...

The EU Ocean Pact: a new opportunity

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 08:18 Last update: about 22 days ago Carmel Cacopardo

The United Nations Agenda 2030 was adopted in 2015. It identifies 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 169 targets through which it can be achieved. In Nice, France, during this week,...

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