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Gozo: Summer ease, island life

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:44 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Sunrays leaked over Ta' Ċenċ cliffs on June 21 at 4:42 on solstice (elevation) morning and Gozo stirred as if someone flicked a light inside every limestone crevice. Sea gulls dart through...

Leadership that moves a nation

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:43 Last update: about 2 years ago Darren Carabott

The unexpected resignation of Bernard Grech last week ignited a flurry of discussion both within the Nationalist Party as well as at a national level, about Malta's political future. Leaders of...

Your Song

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:42 Last update: about 2 years ago Valerie Visanich

Step aside, Swift, there's a new star in town, and it doesn't need a microphone. Artificial Intelligence is now writing lyrics, composing melodies, and even creating its own tunes. What was once the...

Regulating the building industry: an absence of good faith

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:40 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

During the past days we had many experts roaming about and advising us as to the cause of the building collapse at Paceville. Realistically speaking, we are too early to conclude as to what caused the...

Murder, we will be writing

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 07:46 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

Further to the launching of the public consultation on voluntary assisted dying for terminally ill patients, everything seems to be pointing in one direction: we will eventually have a law in place...

Malta in ruins, and not because of war

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 06:50 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

Wednesday 10pm. A US Air Force plane that took off from Sigonella airfield near Catania has been patrolling the sea to the East of Malta for some hours going over and over the same area. If the...

A PN in chaos

Friday, 20 June 2025, 09:38 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

As I write, the Nationalist Party is in deep trouble. Bernard Grech resigned abruptly, leaving his party to pick up the pieces. Roberta Metsola, who many portrayed her as the new PN 'messiah' ended up...

Populism

Thursday, 19 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

For political analysts it's become normal procedure to fire away the argument that this or that politician, or this or that political strategy, amounts to "populism". Initially this was considered the...

Bernard Grech's ebbing popularity

Thursday, 19 June 2025, 07:56 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

One of the measures of performance for a politician is how well he does in the polls, and even more so for the party leader who is expected to be the lead in everything in the election campaign. Bleak...

Pity

Monday, 16 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

As far as I can see, the report has been given scant attention but it deserves to be read closely. Written in an objective and factual manner, it evaluates intelligently the island's economic success...

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