Segregation
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 13:51
Last update: about 11 months ago
Shifting people from one segregated system to another is not inclusion, even if the new setting is better and located within the community. Upgrading the physical environment alone does not...
Assault on the environment
Sunday, 17 August 2025, 07:46
Last update: about 12 months ago
The fact that such an erudite lawyer as is Dr Kevin Aquilina ('Government's legalized rape of Malta's environment' - TMIS August 3) concluded, amongst other significant observations, that "the...
Votes in Birkirkara
Sunday, 3 August 2025, 07:27
Last update: about 12 months ago
I refer to the editorial of Friday, 1 August 2025, titled "Birkirkara's political deadlock requires legislative reform." The statement that "Grech... who obtained the highest number of individual...
Heat bonuses for food delivery couriers
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 08:01
Last update: about 13 months ago
Malta, along with much of Europe, is in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave. In response, many Italian, Spanish and French regions, for example, have issued orders banning outdoor physical labour...
The licence to kill
Sunday, 6 July 2025, 08:23
Last update: about 2 years ago
I once read a comment on World War 2: it gave man the licence to kill and so life has become cheap. In Genesis 2: 16, God does not permit humans to eat meat. This rule was revoked after the Great...
A 500-year-old letter that changed Malta's fate
Sunday, 22 June 2025, 06:46
Last update: about 2 years ago
The commonly known milestones in the history of the Hospitaller Order in Malta include their arrival in 1530 and their victory during the Great Siege of 1565. However, significant events unfolded...
The modern day dictator
Sunday, 15 June 2025, 06:09
Last update: about 2 years ago
No wonder Netanyahu and his gang are getting away with the unbridled murder of Palestinians. Look at what his mentor, Donald Trump, acting like a modern day dictator, is doing in his country,...
A world in slumber
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 08:20
Last update: about 2 years ago
It is a disgrace that Israel is getting only verbal condemnation for, and getting away with the atrocities it is committing in Gaza with such ardent fervour. It is obviously relishing the unfettered...
Inaccuracies in book review
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 08:03
Last update: about 2 years ago
I am writing in response to the book review titled "Genesis of a tragedy", written by Noel Grima and published on 11 May 2025 in your newspaper, The Malta Independent on Sunday. As the author of...