TMID Editorial: Cutting funds where it hurts
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 09:56
Last update: about 5 years ago
As from November, the government will stop giving funds to the Richmond Foundation to run is 24/7 mental health helpline. The service has helped hundreds of people who needed comfort and...
TMID Editorial: Infrastructural hiatus
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 10:34
Last update: about 5 years ago
No new major infrastructural projects were announced in the budget, and the omission of others on which there was so much public discussion in the past years likely means that they are no longer a...
TMID Editorial: Trying to keep the country afloat
Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 09:50
Last update: about 5 years ago
The impact of Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine on economies around the world is there for all to see. It is a difficult time, when prices and inflation are rising internationally and also...
TMID Editorial: Budget day
Monday, 24 October 2022, 10:54
Last update: about 5 years ago
Today is budget day. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana will head to Parliament and unveil the government’s proposed measures for next year. Over the past weeks unions, employers organisations,...
TMIS Editorial - Robert Arrigo: A gentle man and a gentleman
Sunday, 23 October 2022, 11:15
Last update: about 5 years ago
Malta yesterday paid its last respects to Robert Arrigo, a former deputy leader of the Nationalist Party, whose death sparked an outpouring of sorrow that transcended the political borders of a...
TMID Editorial: Nadine Lia didn’t have to let it come to this
Saturday, 22 October 2022, 09:14
Last update: about 5 years ago
This week threw up a court case which, as far as we know, is unprecedented in Malta’s legal history. For the first time ever, a Magistrate was forcibly removed from a case which she was...
TMID Editorial: The case of the prison director
Friday, 21 October 2022, 11:37
Last update: about 5 years ago
Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has said that he will not suspend prisons director Robert Brincau, despite the latter being charged in court. Brincau was charged with slight bodily...
TMID Editorial: Mixed messages
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 08:34
Last update: about 5 years ago
Some lines of communications between members of the Cabinet, including the Prime Minister, seem to have experienced some issues these past few days. Or maybe the Transport Minister is being kept...
TMID Editorial: Flexi-retirement pension pathway
Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 08:37
Last update: about 5 years ago
All eyes will be on the Finance Minister on Monday, as he will be presenting the budget for 2023. We already know, in the words of Clyde Caruana, that we will have no new taxes, but no existing taxes...
TMID Editorial: Our education system
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 12:28
Last update: about 5 years ago
There is a lot to be said about Malta’s education system. From being too exam oriented, which could mean that those who learn differently might not be getting their fair chance, to whether we...