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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...

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