Giving value to the President’s role
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 07:53
Last update: about 12 years ago
President Emeritus Ugo Mifsud Bonnici will be launching his autobiography tomorrow and in the build up to the event, he was interviewed by our sister paper The Malta Independent on Sunday. Apart...
The biggest feather in government’s cap
Monday, 16 March 2015, 07:47
Last update: about 12 years ago
The Prime Minister yesterday hinted that the European Commission may lift the Excessive Deficit Procedure imposed on Malta for failing to stick to the Maastricht criteria’s three per cent...
A new beginning for the Church
Sunday, 15 March 2015, 09:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
On Saturday, Mgr Charles Scicluna will take over as head of the Church in Malta, in a ceremony that is to take place at the Mdina Cathedral. His installation as Archbishop of Malta fills up the...
Literacy: Learning to love books again
Friday, 13 March 2015, 08:16
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta is one of the worst performers when it comes to illiteracy, placing 25th out the 27 EU members with only Romania and Bulgaria faring worse. According to the last report, some 36% of...
School hours: Reform is long overdue
Thursday, 12 March 2015, 08:30
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta has always invested very heavily in education. It has been a long standing mantra that our only plentiful natural resource is our people, the future generations. Schooling has always been...
Voting: Time to take a quantum leap forwards
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 07:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
The government on Sunday announced that Air Malta would be offering €70 tickets for people who want to come to Malta to vote in the Spring Hunting referendum on 11 April. Let us depart from...
SwissLeaks: The scale of it has taken all by surprise
Monday, 9 March 2015, 08:08
Last update: about 12 years ago
The sheer scale of the figures in the tax avoidance case exposed by this newspaper’s sister publication yesterday seems to have left Malta’s political system reeling. Both the...
Accounts and accountability
Sunday, 8 March 2015, 09:07
Last update: about 12 years ago
Today's revelation on our front page that former minister Ninu Zammit held millions of dollars in a secret Swiss bank account, as confirmed by Swiss Leaks data, is deeply concerning on a number of...