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Franco Debono's and Edwin Vassallo's second coming

Sunday, 14 December 2025, 07:24 Last update: about 11 months ago Noel Grima

So what goes as independent media in our society, shoestring funded for the most part, thought of enlivening the dark days of winter with a dose of speculation, which never did any harm. Will the...

Labour guarantees certainty and peace of mind

Friday, 12 December 2025, 09:52 Last update: about 11 months ago Owen Bonnici

Last week, as the Minister for Culture, Lands and Local Government, I launched the Temp25+ scheme. The goal of this program is to help more Maltese and Gozitans become full owners of their homes by...

Drones

Thursday, 11 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 11 months ago Alfred Sant

In Western Europe recently, from the Baltic states to Italy, concern has grown about electronic drones which buzzed around critical infrastructure, mainly airports, some of which even had to close for...

State funds for political parties

Thursday, 11 December 2025, 07:52 Last update: about 11 months ago Mark Said

In light of the provisions of our current law on the financing of political parties, Prime Minister Robert Abela and Opposition Leader Alex Borg clashed over a particular aspect when they first met...

The forgotten Maltese

Monday, 8 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 11 months ago Alfred Sant

The forgotten Maltese are not few in number. They rarely feature in the narrative of events in this country during the centuries running from the sixteenth to the beginning of the twentieth. Only one...

A clean reputation: a requirement for public office

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 08:06 Last update: about 11 months ago Carmel Cacopardo

The Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO), the Council of Europe's anti-corruption body, in a report published in 2019 recommended that the Maltese Government formulates an integrity strategy in...

Time to jump ship

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 08:04 Last update: about 11 months ago Kevin Cassar

The tide has turned.  Labour's days are numbered. Even former Labour minister Edward Zammit Lewis is warning Labour to get worried.  Labour's much-hyped "best budget in history" didn't shift...

Parks in Malta, profits in Gozo

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 08:01 Last update: about 11 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

The government talks about green spaces with the confidence of an administration that believes its rhetoric will stand unchallenged. Week after week, Prime Minister Robert Abela paints a picture of a...

Six-Seveeeen

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 11 months ago Valerie Visanich

 "What are the dates this weekend?" the teacher announced innocently. Within seconds, the classroom exploded with shrieking out of control pupils, all shouting "six-seveeeen", while...

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