The Canterbury Tales
Saturday, 20 August 2016, 10:13
Last update: about 9 years ago
Rachel Borg
Joseph Muscat tries very hard to camouflage his many tools and tactics by dumping them into the cannot-fail-to-please bag – the New Middle Class. If it wasn’t in the Taghna Lkoll...
Is it Konrad’s deal?
Friday, 19 August 2016, 10:56
Last update: about 9 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
On Saturday 6 August, the health minister, Chris Fearne, announced an “overhaul of Gozo health services” through the introduction of a permanent ambulance service, linking the Gozo...
Organised boycotts are totalitarian
Thursday, 18 August 2016, 10:12
Last update: about 9 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Organising boycotts of businesses and operations to which you object is bad. Organising boycotts of anything associated with individuals to whom you object is even worse. Both smack of totalitarianism, the...
Pollution
Thursday, 18 August 2016, 10:09
Last update: about 9 years ago
Alfred Sant
As the economy maintains its momentum, it is natural that public attention focuses more on matters that usually are relegated to second or third priority, such as environmental issues. However the...
Summer musings (1)
Wednesday, 17 August 2016, 09:48
Last update: about 9 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
Summer is commonly known as the silly season because it is typified by frivolous stories that hit the headlines. So I thought I would provide my own account of the summer ponderings that dominate...
MPs’ absenteeism
Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 09:31
Last update: about 9 years ago
Gejtu Vella
It is a headache for SMEs to record workers attendance at the place of work. It is even more frustrating to curb abuse. To curb absenteeism a policy that clearly sets the parameters which...
Dom Mintoff’s gift to Opposition MPs
Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 07:43
Last update: about 9 years ago
Simon Mercieca
The way our parliamentary members acted regarding the Bill to eliminate vilification from being a criminal offence has given me the opportunity to further research past parliamentary debates and...
Momentum
Monday, 15 August 2016, 10:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
Alfred Sant
Confirmation from the latest published European data that the momentum of the Maltese economy has been maintained, reinforces business confidence. This will in itself serve to generate further...
Eurovision and ‘Xarabank’: time to let go
Sunday, 14 August 2016, 11:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
John Bundy has replaced Anton Attard as CEO of Malta’s public service broadcaster, which is responsible for TVM and Radio Malta. And all the talk and newspaper coverage, instead of being about...
Malta in the silly season
Sunday, 14 August 2016, 10:36
Last update: about 9 years ago
Noel Grima
I surfed the net yesterday before I settled down to write. A minister split with his girlfriend. A PN candidate remarried and his daughter showed off her dress. The girl who set Malta on fire on...