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Discounting the future

Sunday, 3 November 2024, 08:37 Last update: about 3 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The budget communicated by Minister of Finance Clyde Caruana on Monday discounts the future. It is a budget which once more shifts present day burdens onto future generations. The budget deficit for...

Where’s the anger?

Sunday, 3 November 2024, 07:39 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

So the protest by NGOs about the rape of Villa Rosa was held yesterday week. The list of organisations which participated in the protest was probably longer than the people who actually...

Active ageing challenges

Sunday, 3 November 2024, 07:38 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Last year, the Ministry for Active Ageing launched a National Strategic Policy for Active Ageing for the years 2023-2030. The urgent need for that policy was felt in so far as population ageing...

Malta, where panto time is any time

Sunday, 3 November 2024, 07:38 Last update: about 3 years ago Victor Calleja

If the situation in this country was not so terrible - or rather tragic - life in Malta would be like living in a real Panto. Everything is farcical. Actually, worse than farcical. Even the...

For a better quality of life

Friday, 1 November 2024, 08:34 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

The weekend before budget day, as is customary, the finance minister gave us, his cabinet member colleagues, a presentation of the Budget 2025 measures. My immediate reaction was that this was a...

Budget

Thursday, 31 October 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

The launching of the budget every year is a major factor in the administration of the country. But its impact is much smaller that is believed by those who work on it from the government side, and...

The ‘Ġaħans’ and ‘Ċassi’ within the Maltese electorate

Thursday, 31 October 2024, 07:23 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Name-calling is stoking a new conflict in our country amid an already politically divisive electorate. Denigrating and belittling attributes dumped on substantial swathes of the Maltese electorate by...

Regulation

Monday, 28 October 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

In the "modern" management of the free market it is widely accepted that there should be safeguards to ensure that the principles guiding how the market functions are being observed by all...

Free speech - under attack

Sunday, 27 October 2024, 10:13 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

Is ONE strategically moving away from partisan talk?, LovinMalta's Tim Diacono asked. "ONE TV seems to have embarked on a new strategy, shifting its focus away from partisan talk," Diacono...

The irony of art funding

Sunday, 27 October 2024, 08:12 Last update: about 3 years ago Julie Zahra

Labour administrations seem to have subverted the order of things in a number of fields and in certain cases, it is hard to understand the logic behind it all. From day one, successive Labour...

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