First flight
Monday, 8 April 2024, 08:00
Last update: about 10 days ago
Alfred Sant MEP
I was a passenger on the flight to Brussels of the “new” KM Malta Airlines on the day following that of its inaugural slots. The service was impeccable, though not at all different to what...
Gozo: St George’s Pjazza: justice, equity, and religious freedom
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 08:12
Last update: about 12 days ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
Lately, a controversial matter has affected the peaceful atmosphere of St George’s Pjazza in Victoria, challenging community unity and religious freedom. St George’s archpriest took...
The courage to change
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 08:11
Last update: about 12 days ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Good governance is central to the proper nurturing of this 50-year-old Republic. Good governance is founded on transparency and accountability. Secrecy and the withholding of information from the...
Grandiose narcissism
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 08:05
Last update: about 12 days ago
Kevin Cassar
“How would you like people to describe you?” Robert Abela was asked in the run-up to the Labour Party leadership contest in 2020. “I am a simple man who enjoys simple things in...
Our purple-tainted political typology
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 07:41
Last update: about 12 days ago
Mark Said
We traditionally and politically associate the colour red with the progressive Labour Party, while the colour blue is associated with the conservative Nationalist Party. Mix both colours, and you get...
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 07:40
Last update: about 12 days ago
Victor Calleja
The US have bigger problems than Malta. The magnitude and the number of their problems which affect the globe are much worse than ours. We, and our idiocy, resemble a little fly that bothers a...
Of sour grapes: Equality Commissioner decries ‘injustice’
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 07:39
Last update: about 12 days ago
Noel Grima
The Spiteri Debono presidency is off to a rocky start. As Myriam Spiteri Debono was being appointed President of the Republic with a Mass at St John’s and a walkabout to the Palace of the...
President
Friday, 5 April 2024, 14:37
Last update: about 12 days ago
Owen Bonnici
There is probably no other Constitutional office in our country more misunderstood than that of the President of Malta. For many people, the Office of the President of Malta is all about the...
Surveys
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 08:00
Last update: about 14 days ago
Alfred Sant MEP
The public opinion surveys being conducted about the European Parliament elections are shedding more heat than light. Their most consistent conclusion is that the Labour Party is always shown to be...
Monuments of the past
Monday, 1 April 2024, 08:00
Last update: about 17 days ago
Alfred Sant MEP
One sympathises with the complaints of people who totally dislike the prominence given in our midst to monuments which reflect Malta’s colonial past. Similar reactions have been registered in...