Editorial: A tale of two IMF reports
Sunday, 18 December 2016, 10:30
Last update: about 11 years ago
The truth can be a funny thing, and half-truths can be even funnier. Take, for example, the International Monetary Fund’s 2016 statement on Malta, which was published on Friday night and the...
Editorial: No place for the Babe
Saturday, 17 December 2016, 09:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
It seems strange until someone points it out: there is no Crib in the entire Valletta except for a rather sketchy one in Palace Square. They say there are 365 churches in Malta, one for every...
Editorial: The bulk buying scheme - Things worth remembering
Friday, 16 December 2016, 10:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
A few days ago we were inundated with photos and memories of the Tal-Barrani events and later of the Raymond Caruana violent death on the 30th anniversary of the happenings. There is another...
Editorial: Humanitarian corridor - Aleppo’s civilians
Thursday, 15 December 2016, 10:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
The situation in Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo is now beyond desperate, and judging from eyewitness accounts and the frantic pleas from within what remains of the city that have inundated our...
Things come in threes for Air Malta
Thursday, 15 December 2016, 10:12
Last update: about 11 years ago
Even though it was coated with treacle and painted as a development, Air Malta's retreat from Frankfurt, one of the first routes opened by the airline in the 1970s was welcomed by shock and...
Things come in threes for Air Malta
Thursday, 15 December 2016, 09:10
Last update: about 11 years ago
Even though it was coated with treacle and painted as a development, Air Malta's retreat from Frankfurt, one of the first routes opened by the airline in the 1970s was welcomed by shock and...
Editorial: The Emperor’s buzzwords
Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 09:00
Last update: about 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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...