The Department of Lands - a scandal
Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 08:41
Last update: about 12 years ago
Simon Mercieca
The Government is in the middle of another scandal involving its property. It has been reported that a ‘famous’ concrete magnate, by the surname of Gaffarena, made a hefty profit through...
Labour’s attack on education
Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 14:17
Last update: about 12 years ago
Stephen Calleja
Labour and education never lived in the same street. Each time it was in government it never placed education as a priority. Worse, it dismantled most of what had been built...
Silly love songs and free falls
Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Gejtu Vella
On the CD player I have“Wings at the Speed of Sound”, released in 1976, playing. Silly Love Songs is on; McCartney is on the bass as the brass pop up to introduce the chorus. The song is a...
Queries
Monday, 8 June 2015, 08:43
Last update: about 12 years ago
Alfred Sant
Beyond the ongoing controversies regarding the proposal to establish a new private University in Malta – some of which are hardly conducted in good faith – how can one arrive at a sensible...
Addressing the environmental deficit
Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:14
Last update: about 12 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The environmental deficit is constantly on the increase. Each generation creates additional environmental impacts without in any way adequately addressing the accumulated impacts handed down by the...
Christians in Arab Malta
Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:04
Last update: about 12 years ago
Simon Mercieca
The recent demise of Professor Godfrey Wettinger has resuscitated the debate about Christianity in Arab Malta. Ironically, two days before his demise, the Archaeology Society of Malta brought over...
It’s not about the environment. It’s about corruption.
Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The fact that the government intends to give a Jordanian real-estate speculator a large amount of protected coastal land from which it will evict farmers for the purpose is the most shocking aspect of...
Corruption claims used as WMD
Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Noel Grima
Those who can take a step back, as well as those who have been around some time and so have become used to the scene, can possibly see it, while those who take things at face value may not. It is...
A prime example
Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Charles Flores
It had to be Europe's famously "100 per cent Catholic" duo of nations to serve as a prime example to the rest of Europe where issues of sexual orientation and minority rights are concerned. Of course,...
Unravelling the University of Sadeen
Saturday, 6 June 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Rachel Borg
We should begin by calling it by its appropriate name and that is the University of Sadeen. Not the De Paul University as it was first introduced to us, or the American University of Malta which...