Don’t give civil matters a bad name
Sunday, 1 January 2023, 09:49
Last update: about 5 years ago
Mary Muscat
I’m tired of reading newspaper coverages of victims dismissed by the police for the latter’s lack of knowledge of basic Civil Law concepts. As a practitioner, I also have the misfortune of...
Choosing merit over political patronage
Sunday, 1 January 2023, 09:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Kevin Aquilina
The appointment of former Magistrates Doreen Clarke and Josette Demicoli as judges has, for the very first time in the history of independent Malta, prized merit over political patronage in judicial...
The green skills which we require
Sunday, 1 January 2023, 08:29
Last update: about 5 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Green skills do not grow on trees. Yet we need them in abundance in order to be able to navigate the ecological transition. We need to urgently come to terms with nature. It is required that we start...
Real and present danger
Sunday, 1 January 2023, 08:28
Last update: about 5 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“No one, including the former President, is above the law”. These were the comments of Bennie Thompson, chairman of the January 6th select committee. After 18 months of investigation...
No, it is not a human right
Sunday, 1 January 2023, 08:12
Last update: about 5 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
While the Christians were busy celebrating the Annunciation, when, according to the story, the angel Gabriel announced the Incarnation to Mary, the liberal-progressives showed up at our collective...
Chronicles of stories yet to happen
Sunday, 1 January 2023, 06:47
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
As dawn breaks out two days before New Year’s Day one looks at the year about to end and tries to peer into what the new year might bring with it. The year that’s ending brought with...
2023
Friday, 30 December 2022, 10:14
Last update: about 5 years ago
Owen Bonnici
The year 2022 is coming to an end, and we have so much to look forward to with positivity and energy for the new year 2023. The year 2022 will surely be remembered as the...
Too many organisations
Thursday, 29 December 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant
The time has long come for the question to be raised as to whether in public administration, too many organisations are involved in ongoing work: instead of really implementing government work...
Black blots and blue dot
Tuesday, 27 December 2022, 07:20
Last update: about 5 years ago
Evarist Bartolo
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on 14 February 1990, by NASA's Voyager 1. American astronomer Carl Sagan had asked for such a photo to be taken. It inspired his book, "Pale Blue Dot:...
The eurozone
Monday, 26 December 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant
It’s been another year of upheaval. War in Europe triggered enormous confusion regarding the supply of energy to the continent – as well as an inflation that had long not been experienced...