Editorial: The Emperor’s buzzwords
Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 09:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
As much as Prime Minister Joseph Muscat tries to disenfranchise himself and his government from what is commonly known as ‘the establishment’, the more it becomes clearer that this Labour...
Editorial: So it’s not the BWSC plant only
Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 10:33
Last update: about 9 years ago
Malta Independent
We have been led to believe that the causes of air pollution in Malta come either from the now defunct Marsa power station or from the BWSC power station at Delimara. That our towns, especially...
Editorial: Church-government relations - An archbishop under fire
Monday, 12 December 2016, 10:36
Last update: about 9 years ago
Archbishop Mgr Charles Scicluna was somewhat impulsive when he posted a tweet about a story appearing in The Sunday Times which later turned out to be carrying incorrect figures. But this does not...
Editorial: Voter enfranchisement and disenfranchisement
Sunday, 11 December 2016, 09:33
Last update: about 9 years ago
The issue that the Nationalist Party has with the way in which those who have purchased Maltese citizenship are being enfranchised to vote is not so much an Opposition issue as it is a national issue...
Editorial: An accusing finger pointed at us
Saturday, 10 December 2016, 09:34
Last update: about 9 years ago
On the same day and in the same hours when Malta was savouring the glory of becoming the EU president (even though it has not yet begun), a man was found dead under a bridge in Marsa. The news story...
Editorial - Evarist Bartolo: guilty of what?
Friday, 9 December 2016, 12:29
Last update: about 9 years ago
We need to go beyond the immediate headings and the political spin and go much further into the Evarist Bartolo case. Now Mr Bartolo has all the faults and defects he has but we must go beyond...
Editorial: An archaic practice abolished at last
Thursday, 8 December 2016, 14:44
Last update: about 10 years ago
These are interesting times in which we are living here in Malta. In terms of civil rights, the country is being propelled into the 21st century and it is quickly making up for lost time. And just...
Making healthcare sustainable
Thursday, 8 December 2016, 10:06
Last update: about 9 years ago
Last week this paper organized one of its Business Breakfasts at the Hilton. The subject this time was health, specifically how can healthcare be rendered sustainable? Minister Chris Fearne...
Editorial: Bad news for Italian banks
Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 09:43
Last update: about 10 years ago
The result of Sunday’s referendum in Italy is so crucial it just leaves no time to analyse the result, not even to speculate on what will happen – election? The banking system in...
Editorial: Language wars
Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 11:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
In recent days there has been an eruption of verbal language battles between the supporters of the Maltese language. This paper, and others, have been involuntary bystanders in this war. It...