TMID Editorial: Reforming the House - A full-time Parliament
Thursday, 21 June 2018, 09:52
Last update: about 9 years ago
A recent social media spat between a politician and a pundit raised, once again, the omnipresent spectre of the conflict of politician holding day jobs in addition to their part-time job of running...
TMID Editorial: Air Malta’s tumbling reputation
Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 09:40
Last update: about 9 years ago
The reputation of Air Malta as a reliable airline is sinking in the same way that the reputation of the minister responsible for the national carrier plummeted when the Panama Papers scandal erupted a...
TMID Editorial: Migration - Salvini’s latest brainwave
Tuesday, 19 June 2018, 11:51
Last update: about 9 years ago
With Matteo Salvini, deputy prime minister and Minister for the Interior, it is an outrage a day. After ordering Italy’s ports to remain shut in the face of 669 asylum seekers plucked from...
TMIS Editorial: The pressure is mounting
Sunday, 17 June 2018, 11:30
Last update: about 9 years ago
If anyone thinks that the visit of the EU’s Justice Commissioner this week was a social call, or just another case of meddling foreigners interfering in the good running of the country, is sadly...
TMID Editorial: Environment - Construction Island
Saturday, 16 June 2018, 12:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
It was announced early June, that the Building Regulations Office (BRO) was to inspect all construction sites around Malta in a period of six weeks, in order to clamp down on developers who are not...
TMID Editorial: Access to information - Drawbridge up
Friday, 15 June 2018, 10:57
Last update: about 9 years ago
Writing in our sister Sunday edition last week, Alternattiva Demokratika Chairman Carmel Cacopardo described the way in which the government is obstructing access to information is ‘a crime...
The economics of asylum seekers
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 09:15
Last update: about 9 years ago
Suddenly, our country has been plunged into a crisis not of its doing, a crisis that has placed Malta's name in ignominy all over the world. Portrayed by the new Italian government, especially...