The Speaker’s sins
Sunday, 5 December 2021, 10:33
Last update: about 6 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“I have no names to give”. This was Speaker Anglu Farrugia committing perjury at the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry. In an interview he gave to Pierre Portelli in 2017 Anglu Farrugia...
The PN’s woes
Sunday, 5 December 2021, 10:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
This topic is complex. There are many elements to it. For instance, bubbles and echo-chambers; a remarkable strain of historical understanding; an equally remarkable type of familiarity with current...
The regeneration of Marsa
Sunday, 5 December 2021, 09:31
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The public consultation which commenced earlier this week relative to the regeneration of the inner part of the Grand Harbour along the coastal area of Marsa is most welcome. Marsa has been neglected...
On running the Lbic gauntlet
Sunday, 5 December 2021, 08:32
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
Experienced mariners tell you that the wind they fear most in Malta is the Lbic (South West) rather than the Grigal (North East). In the context of the few kilometres that separate Malta from...
Less lawyer, more fighter
Saturday, 4 December 2021, 07:21
Last update: about 6 years ago
Rachel Borg
Consistency and credibility are in short supply in the Partit Nazzjonalista. There is one voice, though, that makes itself heard above the daily grind, that of Ivan Bartolo, Spokesperson for...
Full authority
Friday, 3 December 2021, 08:26
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
This week was a particularly interesting one in the House of Representatives as we have approved, after a five-hour long uninterrupted discussion and analysis, the proposed cannabis reform bill at...
Rules of political engagement
Thursday, 2 December 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
How political adversaries consider each other and negotiate with each other is a subject of great interest. At the heart of major political choices that by themselves create enormous tensions between...
Festering food fraud and Labour’s stale breath for Maltese farmers
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 07:39
Last update: about 6 years ago
Peter Agius
When we speak of farmers, herders and fishermen we speak of our food. This is the age where some of our children may think that fishermen harvest fish-fingers and that carrots grow neat and clean like...
Not a land flowing with milk and honey
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 09:52
Last update: about 6 years ago
Evarist Bartolo
On the 16th November, 2021, I took part in the Ministerial Conference in Brussels on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East organised by the...
Established rights
Monday, 29 November 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
It should be unacceptable that when citizens’ rights in a democracy have been established -- meaning that they have been given full legal recognition -- they then get revoked by political...