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TMID Editorial: Malta’s future

Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 09:32 Last update: about 4 years ago

Walking down St Anne’s street in Floriana, one could envision children playing, a park filled with trees, birds chirping, perhaps a fountain or two. Benches on the side of a walking path. Maybe...

TMID Editorial: Local prices

Monday, 30 January 2023, 12:30 Last update: about 5 years ago

We all know that prices have been rising. We know that inflation is taking its toll. We know that first Covid and then the war in Ukraine had an impact on the international market, on international...

TMID Editorial: Resources, resources, resources

Saturday, 28 January 2023, 14:12 Last update: about 5 years ago

The promised increase in the number of members of the judiciary has now come to fruition. Four new magistrates were appointed earlier this week. This now means that Malta has two more judges (two...

TMID Editorial: Wrong move by Gozo Ministry

Friday, 27 January 2023, 15:37 Last update: about 5 years ago

That the Gozo ministry has hunting within its portfolio is a decision taken by the Prime Minister that has never been understood. The hunting sector should be placed within a ministry that, at least,...

TMID Editorial: 425,000 licensed vehicles

Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 11:22 Last update: about 5 years ago

425,000. That’s the number of vehicles licensed on Malta’s roads. This statistic was revealed by Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia in response to a Parliamentary question posed by PN MP...

TMID Editorial: Malta’s shades of grey

Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 12:09 Last update: about 5 years ago

Almost every government minister has mentioned the word “green” in one of his or her latest speeches. Ministers who have nothing to do with the environment have also found a way to say how...

TMID Editorial: Gozo airfield from our taxes? No, thank you

Monday, 23 January 2023, 09:58 Last update: about 5 years ago

The topic of connectivity between Malta and Gozo has always been something of a hot one.  In many ways it has been one of the most significant debates about the sister island in the past ten or...

TMIS Editorial: Abortion and the political pendulum

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 10:51 Last update: about 5 years ago

Evarist Bartolo made an interesting observation a few days ago. The former education and foreign minister, in a post on Facebook, raised questions as to whether the Abortion Bill the government...

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