A friend indeed
Friday, 30 April 2021, 07:53
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
During the time of need when a cruel pandemic tore through our way of life and endangered jobs and livelihoods everywhere across the globe, our workers found, in the Maltese Government, a friend...
Resistance to change
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
All change brings resistance in its wake... and it comes from those whose interests are going to be badly hit by it... as well as from others who do not understand what it entails or how it could...
The deficit in flesh and blood
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 07:01
Last update: about 6 years ago
Michael Briguglio
The public finance deficit is not a vague figure. It is a main indicator of our wellbeing as a nation. For if it becomes unsustainable, it could result in a collapse of essential services and...
Do not put a pin on it
Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 07:37
Last update: about 6 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
The intricate criminality cobweb we are faced with is almost incredulous. Every day our news portals and newspapers are flooded with one new story after another of alleged corruption or bribery,...
To modernise
Monday, 26 April 2021, 08:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Alfred Sant
Much still needs to be done for this country to really modernise. By this, one means a country where public and private affairs are run with transparency according to the rule of law. With an...
Bernard Grech and the State of the Nation
Sunday, 25 April 2021, 11:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
The Opposition in a democracy has two roles, which it has to play with care and a clear strategy. One, it has to be a Loyal Opposition. It has to oppose the government not for the sake of opposing but...
The last straw
Sunday, 25 April 2021, 09:57
Last update: about 6 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The situation is now unbearable. The discriminatory gender mechanism introduced in the Constitution by consent of the PNPL duopoly is definitely the last straw. The PNPL duopoly have now been at it...
And what if the anti-vaxers are right?
Sunday, 25 April 2021, 07:58
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
The peoples of the advanced countries of the world are coming under increased pressure to take the anti-Covid vaccine, which are seen as the only way to bring the devastating pandemic under...
The young and the beautiful
Saturday, 24 April 2021, 07:01
Last update: about 6 years ago
Rachel Borg
The most recent crop of Labour cronyism coming to light centres on the young and the beautiful. From the busy and efficient Rosianne Cutajar, moonlighting into a real estate agent, to other...
A clean bill of health
Friday, 23 April 2021, 07:47
Last update: about 6 years ago
Owen Bonnici
This is a reformist Government. Ever since the Labour administration was elected to lead this country, it embarked on a journey of implementing a series of institutional and social reforms which had...