Three items worthy of note
Friday, 25 July 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 2 years ago
Mark Said
I refer to the recent public statements made by both the Kamra tal-Periti (KTP) and the Chamber of Geologists whereby, concerning the Paceville collapse site, the latter had expressed its grave...
European finances
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 2 years ago
Alfred Sant
In its proposals for the European budgets covering 2028 - 2034, the European Commission has envisaged a substantial increase in EU expenditures. To account for this, it has referenced the priorities...
The PN battles its own nonsense
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 07:35
Last update: about 2 years ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
The Nationalist Party stands at a crossroads. Its leadership election should inspire fresh energy and new ideas, yet the rulebook issued lately by its Electoral Commission tells a different story. The...
Restaurants
Monday, 21 July 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 2 years ago
Alfred Sant
The report published recently by the association of restaurants, the ACE, surveying what diners out in Maltese restaurants think about the service they get was very interesting. Most of all in the...
Chambray vs Manoel Island: Twin fortresses, diverging fates
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 10:56
Last update: about 2 years ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
As Gozitan sunlight touches Fort Chambray's ramparts, this limestone structure above Mġarr Harbour - a silent witness to three centuries of activity, from past skirmishes to modern development -...
Standards in Public Life: deconstructing the Commissioner’s decision
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 10:54
Last update: about 2 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
On Tuesday I received by electronic mail a copy of the decision of the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life relative to a complaint I had submitted on the 8 January 2025. My complaint dealt with...
Gozo’s epidemic
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 08:58
Last update: about 2 years ago
Kevin Cassar
Gozo is facing a terrible catastrophe. The number of severely disabled people in our sister island has increased exponentially since Labour came to power. That number didn't just double,...
Citizenship is not a commodity, and it should never have been
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 08:55
Last update: about 2 years ago
Darren Carabott
It took nothing less than a judgment of the European Court of Justice for the Maltese Government to finally acknowledge what we had been saying for so long, precisely that citizenship is not for...
The Mediterrane questionable bonanza
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 08:11
Last update: about 2 years ago
Julie Zahra
It's another warm July, and once again I find myself writing about yet another Mediterrane Film Festival which, for the third year running, has turned into an extraordinarily expensive extravaganza....
How 'Colpo Grosso' helped PN win in 1987
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 07:52
Last update: about 2 years ago
Noel Grima
Take any Maltese male in his 60s or 70s, mention 'Colpo Grosso' to him ... and watch his face light up. That's the name of a TV series, identified with host Umberto Smaila, which for...