Words and music
Friday, 26 February 2016, 09:02
Last update: about 12 years ago
In Parliament on Wednesday, Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil made a series of statements regarding the Konrad Mizzi case. He was later challenged to repeat the same allegations outside the House...
Libya and the Islamic State: Terrorists too close for comfort
Thursday, 25 February 2016, 07:58
Last update: about 12 years ago
These are certainly troubled times in which we are living today. But as we here in Malta may be somewhat diverted by public scandal after public scandal as they roll off the presses almost on a daily...
This latest conversion therapy storm
Wednesday, 24 February 2016, 07:37
Last update: about 12 years ago
Like a storm in a summer sky, the latest debate on what is known as conversion therapy has hit this country when it least expected it. It is quite strange this controversy was occasioned by a...
We are not on the sidelines
Tuesday, 23 February 2016, 11:20
Last update: about 12 years ago
The conclusion of what is now being called the EU’s Brexit Council and the announcement of an In-Out referendum to be held in the UK later on this year might seem to many Maltese as something...
Editorial: Labour’s transport reform is not working
Monday, 22 February 2016, 08:16
Last update: about 12 years ago
The weekend papers were full of articles telling in greater or less details how the public transport reform led by Minister Joe Mizzi is not working. Things have come to the point that people...
Editorial: Immediate action required, again
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 09:30
Last update: about 12 years ago
It has been barely a month since the publication of the damning National Audit Office report on the Old Mint Street scandal. That report pointed to collusion in a case which involved the handing out...
Enforcement: The long arm of the law
Saturday, 20 February 2016, 10:16
Last update: about 12 years ago
Europe has been in throes of great debate about putting Schengen rules on hold in the face of the never abating human tide of people that is trying to make its way into Europe from Syria and other...
Mother & Baby Wing: A welcome extension for Mater Dei Hospital
Friday, 19 February 2016, 08:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
Parliamentary Secretary for Health Chris Fearne has announced that the next phase of expansion at the Mater Dei Hospital will include a new maternity wing, also known as a Mother & Baby...
David’s Rubicon
Thursday, 18 February 2016, 10:19
Last update: about 12 years ago
If everybody keeps to the timetable, the EU Council will discuss the British question today and, hopefully, the British Cabinet will discuss the situation at a special extraordinary Cabinet meeting on...
Racist threats: Zero tolerance
Thursday, 18 February 2016, 09:26
Last update: about 12 years ago
When a Facebook user this week commented that MEP Roberta Metsola ‘should be shot’, many passed it off as a triviality. It is, after all, an everyday expression that should not be taken...