Network Neutrality: a serious threat to the internet
Sunday, 24 December 2017, 08:26
Last update: about 10 years ago
Philip Micallef
Bringing to an end Network Neutrality is very bad news. This is what Donald Trump has just initiated in the USA through the US regulator, the Federal Commission of Communications (FCC). On 14...
The double meaning of Christmas
Sunday, 24 December 2017, 08:07
Last update: about 10 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
My original intention was to write exclusively about Christmas, but I have to depart slightly from that plan and start off with two comments. 1) There are enormous implications to the discovery...
Defining a successful year
Sunday, 24 December 2017, 08:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Justyne Caruana
Although financial wealth is not the only measure of our country's strength, it is so befitting the festive season that we have, again, achieved a further surplus and increased employment as a...
Traffic and the Winter Solstice
Sunday, 24 December 2017, 07:36
Last update: about 10 years ago
Colette Sciberras
At this time of the year, something happens which has always struck me as beautifully symbolic. Just as the Sun, that universal symbol of Enlightenment, Reason, and Goodness and, once, even seen as...
Peace (and not Pesco) on Earth to men of goodwill
Sunday, 24 December 2017, 07:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
Ivan Grech Mintoff
This week, our PM announced in Parliament that he has decided that Malta will opt out of PESCO - the EU's new defence and security cooperation - because "certain operations of the new entity might be...
Seven weeks since Daphne’s funeral – Justice and Peace
Saturday, 23 December 2017, 10:17
Last update: about 10 years ago
Vicki Ann Cremona
In the gardens of the Hotel des Invalides, in Paris, there is a statue that is not beautiful, but very poignant. It is not meant to be beautiful. It is meant to shock, to make the viewer reflect on...
Tax harmonization – a panacea or anathema for us
Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 13:33
Last update: about 10 years ago
George M Mangion
Tax harmonization is not a subject to be taken lightly and during the festive season one can be excused for shying away from discussing this sensitive issue; yet, ever since joining the EU, our...
Opinion: The rule of law à la maltaise - Kevin Aquilina
Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 11:29
Last update: about 10 years ago
Kevin Aquilina
The rule of law à la maltaise is the title of a book I have just published. I consider the rule of law to be paramount to a civilised democratic society. À la maltaise(the Maltese way of...
Solidarity – our nation’s true character
Sunday, 17 December 2017, 09:07
Last update: about 10 years ago
Christmastime is perhaps the best time of the year to appreciate the sterling work accomplished by thousands of dedicated people in the many voluntary organisations with which Gozo and Malta are...
400 contractors, 316 square kilometres: The Christmas Present
Sunday, 17 December 2017, 08:56
Last update: about 10 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
Sandro Chetcuti of the Malta Developers Association is obviously right. Property is indeed the only remaining viable investment option in Malta. He is also right in claiming that...