Editorial: Manchester attack - Words are not enough
Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 13:43
Last update: about 10 years ago
No words, least of all ours, can be enough to fully describe our reactions to the Manchester Arena explosion which has killed, so far, 22 people, many of them children. They had gone to a concert...
Editorial: Tweaking the message - The next five years
Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 15:11
Last update: about 10 years ago
Finally, he said it. After a year of bickering, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat buckled under the pressure of the electoral campaign he himself called for, and indirectly admitted that his Chief of Staff...
Editorial: Mirror images
Monday, 22 May 2017, 10:50
Last update: about 10 years ago
This is incredibly impossible to say but it is Gospel truth. The two political leaders, each speaking before a mammoth crowd in Mqabba and Zabbar respectively, without any pre-arranged...
Editorial: Malta under the microscope
Sunday, 21 May 2017, 10:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
For the first time in this otherwise divisive general election campaign, we saw some unity between the two main political parties yesterday. Both the Nationalist and Labour parties are in...
Editorial: Who should actually resign over Egrant?
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 10:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
Calls for the Prime Minister’s resignation have come from far and wide practically since the outbreak of the multifaceted Panama Papers-Egrant scandal, which, at least on the surface, is...
Making growth sustainable
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 09:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
The past weeks, even before the election was announced, notice was being had of the economic growth that Malta has been registering. The growth has been registered over many months and years and...
Editorial: Malta’s reputation abroad - Send in the troopers
Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 10:20
Last update: about 10 years ago
The penny now seems to have dropped. The finance minister has been sent post-haste to Germany and will call the press to counteract stories that have portrayed Malta in a very bad...