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The future of the legal profession

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 07:49 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

The business of the legal profession is in an evolutionary process. The profession tends to reward an effective model with success and punish an ineffective one with failure. The legal...

The cult of the car

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 07:39 Last update: about 2 years ago Victor Calleja

Our Transport Minister has promised to publish the initial recommendations of the Road Safety Bureau. Possibly, in the meantime after this article was being penned, he announced them. All these...

In Ukraine, last week

Friday, 7 February 2025, 15:29 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

I was in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, last week - a country ravaged by war.  The Ukrainians have witnessed, and still do, the horrors of war. It has been three years since Russian tanks...

Bureaucracy

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 09:29 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

A challenge that all EU members are accepting as being vital for their continent is that Europe must recover its economic competitiveness. A main line of action to achieve this, it's being claimed, is...

Planning vs vision

Monday, 3 February 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

The word "vision" that has come to be used to lay out what needs to be done in the future is not so useful. Likely it gets used to avoid recourse to the word "plan". The latter has lost much of its...

Journalists in Labour’s crosshairs

Sunday, 2 February 2025, 08:13 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

The Labour party is plummeting to new depths.  It has embarked on a campaign to discredit Jacob Borg, the Times journalist who was instrumental in uncovering some of Joseph Muscat's worst...

Depersonalisation of disposal work/ers

Sunday, 2 February 2025, 08:09 Last update: about 2 years ago Valerie Visanich

In reports addressing local economic growth, migrant workers often appear as mere footnotes. Their contributions acknowledged but rarely given attention or recognition. However, now discussion is...

Gozo’s growth: credit where it’s due

Sunday, 2 February 2025, 08:04 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

The positive tourism figures for Gozo, publicised by Culture and Arts Minister Owen Bonnici - Good news for Malta-Impressive numbers (TMI, Jan. 10th), are an incomplete portrayal of the situation....

Over-population: We need a change in direction

Sunday, 2 February 2025, 08:01 Last update: about 2 years ago Darren Carabott

Now that the horse has bolted, in a bid to regain control of the situation, as well as of his political fate, Robert Abela is desperate to appear to be doing something about the increasingly alarming...

Red tape

Sunday, 2 February 2025, 07:59 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

When we speak of red tape, we are generally referring to unnecessary rules and procedures which delay decision taking as well as the implementation of decisions. Some may be disappointed to note that...

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