The Opposition: vigilant or vigilante?
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 09:20
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
While licking its wounds and finding its bearings, the Opposition cannot stop being vigilant. One thing every decent citizen of this country expects from the Opposition is to step up its...
Urban open spaces and climate change
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 08:52
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
After a free-for-all building spree during which the development of multiple private gardens in our towns and villages were targeted, mostly successfully, our towns and villages have been promised...
They’re coming for Bernard
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 07:50
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
The drums roll and the tumbrils are already out. It’s four weeks (already) since the election and the knives are out for the defeated leader. So far, par for the course. Lawrence Gonzi and...
St Gregory and other snippets
Friday, 22 April 2022, 09:25
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
The St Gregory procession is steeped in tradition and dates back at least 500 years. It happens every Wednesday after Easter and, in effect, apart from the religious aspect of it all, serves to...
Destruction
Thursday, 21 April 2022, 06:59
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
We are now witnessing again... like what we witnessed long years ago during the Vietnam war ... how the destruction that war brings in its wake affects all those who voluntarily or not take part in...
Becoming independent
Tuesday, 19 April 2022, 08:48
Last update: about 6 years ago
Evarist Bartolo
One of the difficulties faced by small countries like ours that were governed for centuries by others in their own interests, is to think with our own mind, feel with our own heart and see through our...
Inflation worries
Monday, 18 April 2022, 07:29
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
Worries about inflation will most likely not clear overnight. As of now, that seems to be the case. Still, one can hardly pontificate much regarding how inflation could spread and where it will become...
Staying in power - indefinitely
Sunday, 17 April 2022, 09:44
Last update: about 6 years ago
Kevin Cassar
“The Labour Party will be the government and the opposition at the same time,” Randolph Debattista, Labour’s CEO declared. Debattista was undemocratically co-opted as an MP by...
The financing of the PLPN
Sunday, 17 April 2022, 09:25
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Through a number of articles in the local press we have been repeatedly made aware that government and its authorities do not treat the parliamentary political parties (and their commercial companies)...
Time for reflection
Sunday, 17 April 2022, 08:43
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
The period immediately following an election is a very valuable time which only the foolish waste through finger-pointing or squabbling. I will focus today on the personal level. The level of...