The Malta Independent 26 June 2025, Thursday
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The problems persist...

Thursday, 26 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 1 day ago Alfred Sant

As was to be expected, problems in the construction sector have not diminished, despite the steps that were taken to introduce more regulations and discipline. Certainly, the recurring problems have...

The governance of our coast

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 07:58 Last update: about 1 day ago Michael Briguglio

Given Malta's small size, it is no surprise that areas along the Maltese coast, such as Manoel Islands and Comino, to name two current examples, regularly feature as sites of contention between...

Free access to the registry of sex offenders

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 07:57 Last update: about 1 day ago Mark Said

Once more, in light of the arrest and prosecution of two Maltese men involved in a major global child pornography racket some time ago, calls have grown for the government to make Malta's sex offender...

Historical ties

Monday, 23 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 3 days ago Alfred Sant

The history of ties which a community had with foreign societies over the centuries unfailingly includes unpleasant episodes. Not least in Europe, where imperialism has always been a leading factor in...

Cruel displays

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:45 Last update: about 7 days ago Kevin Cassar

On March 26 Donald Trump's Homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, visited the high security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who were allegedly gang members living in the US were deported to....

Gozo: Summer ease, island life

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:44 Last update: about 7 days ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Sunrays leaked over Ta' Ċenċ cliffs on June 21 at 4:42 on solstice (elevation) morning and Gozo stirred as if someone flicked a light inside every limestone crevice. Sea gulls dart through...

Leadership that moves a nation

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:43 Last update: about 7 days ago Darren Carabott

The unexpected resignation of Bernard Grech last week ignited a flurry of discussion both within the Nationalist Party as well as at a national level, about Malta's political future. Leaders of...

Your Song

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:42 Last update: about 7 days ago Valerie Visanich

Step aside, Swift, there's a new star in town, and it doesn't need a microphone. Artificial Intelligence is now writing lyrics, composing melodies, and even creating its own tunes. What was once the...

Regulating the building industry: an absence of good faith

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 08:40 Last update: about 4 days ago Carmel Cacopardo

During the past days we had many experts roaming about and advising us as to the cause of the building collapse at Paceville. Realistically speaking, we are too early to conclude as to what caused the...

Political conflicts of interest, European ports and parkour

Thursday, 13 March 2025, 08:15 Last update: about 5 months ago Mark Said

In a court judgement delivered in April of last year, a judge recommended the criminalisation of high-level political conflicts of interest whenever such situations are not disclosed beforehand by the...

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