Environmental concern reaching a critical mass
Sunday, 28 August 2016, 09:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
The more one observes the ebb and flow of one government scandal hot on the heels of another and the public’s very short attention span, the more one grows convinced that the next election will...
Editorial: Another tassel to a self-injuring administration
Saturday, 27 August 2016, 10:06
Last update: about 10 years ago
The Neville Gafa case has added another tassel to an administration that has collected such cases that one almost forgets to list the whole sequence for fear of forgetting many of...
Air Malta taking off for an unknown destination
Wednesday, 24 August 2016, 08:18
Last update: about 10 years ago
The chocks are away, the engines fired, and the aircraft has begun its taxiing to the take-off runway. Thus Air Malta. But the destination is unknown not just to the passengers but also, one...
The other side of village feasts
Monday, 22 August 2016, 08:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
It is hard to imagine Malta without village feasts. They are part and parcel of our culture, and although interest in all that is religious continues to dwindle year after year, village feasts...
Malta: the land of passports and visas
Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:22
Last update: about 10 years ago
From perfectly legal yet ethically questionable sale of citizenships, to the visa and residency permit racket run by Joe Sammut, to the abnormally high number of visas given to Algerians and Libyans,...
Corruption: We can see the clouds gathering on all sides
Saturday, 20 August 2016, 10:33
Last update: about 10 years ago
We are still some days away from the resumption of political life in Europe but we can already see clouds gathering over the horizon on all sides. Post-Brexit Europe is not a happy place at all....