Waiting for Godot
Thursday, 19 January 2017, 10:11
Last update: about 11 years ago
Considered a masterpiece in the Western canon, Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' symbolically captures the absurdity, comedy and tragedy of humanity's attempt to reckon with a wasteland of...
Editorial: Maybe the beginning of a historic shift
Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 12:06
Last update: about 11 years ago
Although a week has passed, comments and reverberations continue to echo with regards to what took place in Malta a week ago today when the Commission trooped to Malta at the beginning of the Maltese...
Editorial: Air Malta’s agony
Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 11:22
Last update: about 11 years ago
We have by now got used to the various statements by Minister Edward Zammit Lewis with regards to the hot potato dumped in his lap – Air Malta. Up till last Friday, when the government...
Editorial: The difficult task to straddle a coalition
Monday, 16 January 2017, 10:50
Last update: about 11 years ago
Increasingly, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil is finding it hard to cobble together a coalition to tackle Joseph Muscat’s Labour in the coming general election. Dr Busuttil seems to have...
Editorial: Timing is everything
Sunday, 15 January 2017, 10:10
Last update: about 11 years ago
This week’s visit to Malta by the European Commission was a wonderfully orchestrated affair. The dignitaries’ speeches and platitudes were all conducted with barely a hitch or hiccup, the...
Editorial: Romulus’ anti-establishment prologue
Saturday, 14 January 2017, 10:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
If 2016 was the year the world, as we know it, turned on its head, nothing indicates that 2017 will be any different. Even tiny Malta, now entrusted with the leadership of the largest...
Editorial: The world is now in real danger
Friday, 13 January 2017, 11:50
Last update: about 11 years ago
It is not just that what up till yesterday were certainties have now become doubts. Maybe without our realizing what is happening, the world we were brought up in has changed, is changing, and we...
The government no giveth, the government taketh
Thursday, 12 January 2017, 10:17
Last update: about 11 years ago
There have been some recent media reports which complained about the delays by the wider government service (that is, including the various agencies, etc) in giving back to the citizens what is due to...