The resignation of David Thake
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:55
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The resignation of David Thake is a positive step. It takes courage to admit to having acted incorrectly and shoulder the political responsibility for your actions. There are others who should...
Probing the debt hole
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:36
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
Our attention span being what it is, our mind flips from issue to issue but many issues fall beneath our radar and are instantly forgotten when many times they are what we should be focusing...
That Bogdanovic feeling
Saturday, 15 January 2022, 08:33
Last update: about 6 years ago
Rachel Borg
Why is it, that so many important reports published by government departments and ministries give you that “Bogdanovic” feeling? That is, you get a sense that the document is not an...
Smart specialization
Friday, 14 January 2022, 08:32
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
One of the questions which is most frequently being posed, either directly or indirectly, in the various opinion articles and editorials is: how do we want our economy to grow? The...
The economic impact
Thursday, 13 January 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
Since the Covid-19 pandemic struck, its economic impacts have been multiple. They just kept spreading. The most important first impact resulted from the steep decline in demand; for several sectors,...
Adieu to business as we knew it
Wednesday, 12 January 2022, 10:22
Last update: about 6 years ago
Peter Agius
The Malta Chamber of Commerce yesterday joined the voices of support to the PN’s initiative to kick start legislative change to make politicians in Malta more accountable to their actions across...
A realistic and humble EU – Mission impossible?
Tuesday, 11 January 2022, 07:42
Last update: about 6 years ago
Evarist Bartolo
We should all learn from what has happened over the years in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq and other so called post-conflict countries. They show how pointless and painful it is for military powers...
Complacency
Monday, 10 January 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
Perhaps the biggest problem we have with the running of our institutions is complacency – the belief that we know best how well we do things. We have inherited much that was quite good, we...
Live not by lies
Sunday, 9 January 2022, 10:11
Last update: about 6 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the state,” wrote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his essay ‘Live not by lies’. It could have been...
The golden handshakes must be transparent
Sunday, 9 January 2022, 09:08
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
It has been reported, in various sections of the press, that Justyne Caruana, former Minister of Education, has received, or will be shortly receiving payment, in the region of €30,000 as a...