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Standards

Friday, 25 November 2022, 08:16 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

Can someone explain how a person is considered perfectly capable to fill the all important post of Chief Justice, but then, a few years down the line, that same person is deemed by the Opposition...

Open political debate

Thursday, 24 November 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

A political custom that has been lost over the years was that of open  debates held internally by the political parties. I remember how in the past – but this goes back almost to before I...

The race against climate change

Monday, 21 November 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

We are in a desperate race to counter global climate warming in time -- so we are told, not least as recently as at the COP conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. But no matter what you read or who you speak...

The demise of public relations

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 10:34 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

“The public service’s PR in general has long been dead. It might sound like a sweeping statement, but look at how the Phoneline 153 took over from the departmental...

Wanted: a transport policy which makes sense

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 08:31 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Everywhere is within reach in the Maltese islands: distances are relatively small. It is, in addition, an established fact, documented in the Transport master plan, that 50 per cent of private car...

The age of decadence

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 08:30 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

“Why do you keep defending Owen Bonnici?”, Robert Abela was asked. “Because I have full trust in him,” came Abela’s curt reply. Abela sees vices as virtues and...

Unravelling the arts deficit

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 07:29 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

In future times when people will get to analyse our time they will most probably conclude that this has not been a good time for the spread of the arts in our country. There is a lack of the...

The world in a snapshot

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 07:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Last weekend, the Italian geopolitical review LIMES organised its 9th Geopolitics Festival, at Genoa’s majestic Doge’s Palace – the Doge was the sovereign of the now-defunct Genoese...

Tapestries

Friday, 18 November 2022, 08:10 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

This week, the two tapestries, forming part of a set of twenty-nine originally commissioned by Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful returned back to Malta from Brussels. These were...

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