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Is AI a threat to humanity?

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 11 months ago Frans Camilleri

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we do things, how we interact with others, but also what we know about ourselves.  It's already a tired cliché.  This fourth...

Valletta deserves more than platitudes

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 07:59 Last update: about 11 months ago Darren Carabott

It is way too convenient to resort to empty platitudes when in distress. At best, the strategy betrays a sense of urgency to distract or create a tactic of misdirection. Sadly, however, it is as plain...

Constitutional implications for environmental rights

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 07:43 Last update: about 11 months ago Mark Said

Malta has experienced a progressive degradation of the environment over the last years. Last  October, we had a raging public controversy of unprecedented proportions when parliament,...

Push affordability, lack of

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 07:09 Last update: about 11 months ago Noel Grima

The flavour of the week undoubtedly was Roderick Galdes, chosen by Robert Abela to help people get affordable housing, who turned out to have purchased a duplex penthouse in Ta' Gelmus, Rabat Gozo for...

Our beautiful country

Friday, 5 December 2025, 08:56 Last update: about 11 months ago Owen Bonnici

Last Monday, Parliamentary Secretary Alison Zerafa Civelli and I moved forward a bill to officially enshrine Valletta as Malta's capital city, as well as to formally designate 27 December as the...

False information

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 12 months ago Alfred Sant

There is a growing (and I think correct) belief that more and more of decisions being taken are based on false information. Indeed, beyond that, programmed efforts are being sustained to spread false...

Malta’s roads don’t lie – the system collapsed

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 07:56 Last update: about 11 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Malta struggles with traffic, but the genuine crisis hides in the details that shape every journey. Anyone who drives across Malta and Gozo meets the same catalogue of failure: faded lines, unlit...

Justice in fits and starts

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 07:54 Last update: about 11 months ago Mark Said

The quality of justice is a constant and long‑standing concern of our country, as shown in particular by several regular recommendations forthcoming from stakeholders on ways of facilitating...

Promoting births

Monday, 1 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 12 months ago Alfred Sant

The claim has been made frequently, with reason. The people of Malta and Gozo are "producing" less children than what is required to replenish the population. Instead the prospects are that there will...

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