Bad weather
Monday, 2 May 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
How prepared is the Maltese economy for the bad weather that could arise? It is a question that should often be made, without this being taken to necessarily signal that we are descending towards...
Message control
Sunday, 1 May 2022, 10:16
Last update: about 6 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“This victory is one to remember, we had the biggest range of opponents to overpower - the opposition at home, the bureaucrats in Brussels, the international media and even the Ukrainian...
Chernobyl revisited
Sunday, 1 May 2022, 09:13
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Chernobyl in Ukraine on 26 April 1986, 36 years ago, was the site of a major nuclear disaster. All that came to mind once more when the Russian and Byelorussian forces invaded Ukrainian territory over...
Two men: same problem
Sunday, 1 May 2022, 08:14
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
Speaking last Sunday Bernard Grech announced that PN has debts amounting to €32 million. And Malta’s total public debt stood at €8.2 billion as at last November, up €3...
01.05.22
Friday, 29 April 2022, 07:25
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
The 1st of May celebrations are not just ordinary celebrations. They bring together all those who, everyday, go to work independently of the employment they are in. In the past it was an...
Up and up
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:31
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
The latest data released this week by the statistics office about price rises confirmed that the momentum by which they are happening has been sustained. In close to seven months, inflation has...
Transport, climate neutrality and everyday mobility
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:30
Last update: about 6 years ago
Michael Briguglio
In an article in the Malta Today earlier this week, Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli wrote about the ‘crucial role’ that electric vehicles (EVs) will play in...
When interest rates rise
Monday, 25 April 2022, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
Measures to allow an increase of interest rates on loans and deposits appear to be inevitable, even from the side of the European Central Bank. In past years, we had become used to interest...
No court? Let’s party
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 10:30
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mary Muscat
In 2017 the Labour electoral manifesto promised to set up a court that specialised in environmental matters as part of a structure that combined the fight for climate change with strengthened...
The heart of darkness
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 09:55
Last update: about 6 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“The horror, the horror” were the last words he uttered. Kurtz, the main character in Joseph Conrad’s novel the Heart of Darkness, travelled deep into Africa to source ivory but was...