Mobile technology: Driving us to distraction
Friday, 22 July 2016, 11:44
Last update: about 11 years ago
The latest flash in the pan to take the world by storm is Pokemon Go. The game is a spinoff of one of Nintendo’s most popular video games – Pokemon – which spawned cartoons, fluffy...
Pigeon culls: Contraceptive feed is the most sanitary option
Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 08:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
The pigeon culling exercise in Balzan last week raised controversy given that it literally involved men walking around with air rifles taking pot shots at the birds. The first thing that...
Editorial - Politics: Time for some toilet humour
Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 11:22
Last update: about 11 years ago
It is almost August and that time of the year, in journalistic jargon, is referred to as silly season. As people laze around on the beach and companies go on shutdown, life turns into a bit of a...
Mental Health: Awareness is key to defeating stigma
Monday, 18 July 2016, 08:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
In today’s issue, an interview with the head of the Psychiatric Nurses Association tackles the issue of the stigma which is still attached to mental illness. Pierre Galea told this...
France attacks: The world is at war
Saturday, 16 July 2016, 09:34
Last update: about 11 years ago
When we think of world war, we tend to think of WWI and WWII, when whole continents waged pitched battle warfare against each other. That may be what history has taught us. During the Cold War,...
Prime Minister’s question time
Friday, 15 July 2016, 09:15
Last update: about 11 years ago
Each and every democracy has its own way of making politics and the differences are never more stark than when one watches parliamentary sessions. Ever since Malta’s House of...
A strike against Air Malta is a strike against the country
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 09:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Air Malta pilots’ threat of further industrial action in the form of delaying flights and/or suspending services altogether are not only placing their own company and their own jobs at risk, but...
One too many
Wednesday, 13 July 2016, 09:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
‘One Too Many’ was the title of a protest that took place in Valletta yesterday. The protest was against violence against women, inspired by the recent case of Eleanor Mangion...