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The ‘without delay’ provision in the Constitution

Thursday, 21 July 2022, 08:25 Last update: about 5 years ago

On 6 July 2022, Parliament approved the third reading of the Various Laws Related to Assisted Procreation (Amendment) Bill, the IVF bill. The next stage in the enactment of this Bill is for the...

Misrule of Law by the Broadcasting Authority and PBS Ltd

Monday, 18 July 2022, 08:40 Last update: about 5 years ago

The Civil Court, First Hall (Constitutional Competence)’s judgment of 14 July 2022 in the names Nationalist Party vs. Broadcasting Authority, PBS Ltd., minister responsible for broadcasting, and...

Connectivity: a necessity and not a luxury

Sunday, 17 July 2022, 06:57 Last update: about 5 years ago Josianne Cutajar MEP

Perhaps stating that connectivity is a must sounds like a cliche in this day and age. We are used to visiting other countries, studying abroad and even welcoming tourists to our shores, but the truth...

‘Vjaġġ’ – towards social connectedness

Sunday, 17 July 2022, 06:56 Last update: about 5 years ago

The Faculty for Social Wellbeing is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. It was exactly 19 July 2012 that this new community was set up and took its first infant steps. Now 10 years later, it...

Mind your language

Sunday, 17 July 2022, 06:53 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark Said

None but the most extreme will argue that intolerance and censorship are good things in themselves. Normally the preferred course is more subtle. Instead of openly arresting people who say the wrong...

Opinion: Conscience in decision making

Monday, 11 July 2022, 10:14 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Aquilina

An unwritten source of law, it has been held in legal literature, is that of conscience. The judiciary, for instance, refer to it continuously in their workings. Freedom of conscience is also...

Appreciation: Brigadier Maurice Calleja (1934-2022)

Sunday, 10 July 2022, 07:56 Last update: about 5 years ago Marie Benoît

Brigadier Maurice Calleja passed away last month, on 21 June, at the age of 87. He had reached the pinnacle of a distinguished army career. I write as a neighbour and a friend of the family since...

Heeding warning signs. We need to dialogue

Sunday, 10 July 2022, 07:55 Last update: about 5 years ago Pierre Mallia

If abortion laws are not to eventually go across the board the liberals and conservatives need to dialogue systematically and reasonably and meet on common ground. This is not a measure about...

The significance of the annual Police Day

Sunday, 10 July 2022, 07:53 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark Said

Many countries celebrate an annual Police Day. Here, in Malta, we do that on 15 July of each year and we do it in grand style. But what is its significance? Over the last few years, we have been drawn...

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