Getting used to deaths
Thursday, 9 November 2023, 08:00
Last update: about 4 years ago
Alfred Sant
Now it’s been weeks since day in day out, we’ve been told about bombing attacks and killings in Israel and Palestine. We’ve gotten used to them, even hardly noticing what’s...
Studying social impacts
Thursday, 9 November 2023, 07:52
Last update: about 4 years ago
Michael Briguglio
Let us imagine that a new development for touristic purposes is being planned in a coastal locality. Let us imagine that the respective decision makers opt for an evidence-based approach before...
Hondoq ir-Rummien
Monday, 6 November 2023, 08:00
Last update: about 4 years ago
Alfred Sant
The guarantee government has given to preserve Ħondoq ir-Rummien in its natural state amounts to a big victory for the Qala local council, especially its mayor Paul Buttigieg. Truly the valley...
Acting in the public interest … whatever that might mean
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 09:14
Last update: about 4 years ago
Kevin Aquilina
Article 91A of the Constitution of Malta sets out the duties of the State Advocate. It reads as follows: ‘The State Advocate shall be the advisor to Government in matters of law and legal...
Buying people
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 09:13
Last update: about 4 years ago
Kevin Cassar
Robert Abela tried to buy the silence of Jean Paul Sofia’s mum. She was fighting for justice for her interred son. He was fighting for his own survival. Isabelle Bonnici, Sofia’s mother...
Tinkering with the incomes policy
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 09:12
Last update: about 4 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The incomes policy is central to the boring 134-page budget speech read by Minister of Finance Clyde Caruana on Monday. There are three specific elements to this. The first is the cost-of-living...
The great illusion
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 08:50
Last update: about 4 years ago
Noel Grima
Those who last Monday watched the Budget sitting from Parliament would have been impressed by the whole stage-managed scene. All the stops were pulled out to give viewers a glimpse of the State....
Budget 2024: A concrete exercise in social justice
Friday, 3 November 2023, 08:41
Last update: about 4 years ago
Owen Bonnici
Malta's Budget for 2024 is nothing short of an impressive exercise in the attainment of social justice, a testament to the government's dedication to enhancing the quality of life for all...
Reasonable and well reasoned
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 06:57
Last update: about 4 years ago
Alfred Sant
Personally I did not envisage it would be otherwise; the 2024 budget would present reasonable and well reasoned proposals covering the government’s way forward given today’s fiscal,...
Employment agencies
Monday, 30 October 2023, 08:00
Last update: about 4 years ago
Alfred Sant
Recently, in past weeks, it seems like I saw quite a number of media adverts announcing the intention of the advertiser to set up an employment agency -- one that would also be doing business by...