A better tomorrow
Friday, 12 June 2020, 07:27
Last update: about 7 years ago
Owen Bonnici
The latest statistics by Eurostat show that Malta had the second biggest increase in jobs after Lithuania between January and last March. Eurostat also stated that jobs – as an average –...
Among those who left
Thursday, 11 June 2020, 08:00
Last update: about 7 years ago
Alfred Sant
It has been said that as a result of the corona virus pandemic, “thousands” of foreign workers left or will be leaving Malta, mostly because they lost their job. It would be...
The budget in context
Thursday, 11 June 2020, 07:14
Last update: about 7 years ago
Michael Briguglio
Last Monday’s budgetary package consisted of measures designed to kickstart the economy. The government’s €900 million package includes various incentives and forms of...
Loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic
Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 08:07
Last update: about 7 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
During these last years, the Faculty for Social Wellbeing has continued to validate its ethos by responding in a timely fashion to issues that are happening around us and providing empirical data that...
Why small changes could have a big impact
Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 07:18
Last update: about 7 years ago
Tara Cassar
Last Tuesday, the Planning Authority initiated the public consultation process on a proposed amendment to the Development Notification Order [DNO] legislation. Through this proposed amendment,...
How we bought
Monday, 8 June 2020, 06:11
Last update: about 7 years ago
Alfred Sant
Data about retail sales in eurozone countries for the months of March and April make for interesting comparisons. During those two months dominated by the corona virus pandemic, as a eurozone average,...
Chronicles of Bobbyland
Sunday, 7 June 2020, 10:48
Last update: about 7 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
I want to discuss briefly some recent goings-on in Bobbyland. “Bobbyland” comes from an association of ideas. The testimony given by Melvin Theuma in court, in which he said that he...
The assassination: having friends in the right places
Sunday, 7 June 2020, 09:54
Last update: about 7 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The testimony delivered in Court this week by Melvyn Theuma in the criminal case of Yorgen Fenech, the businessman accused with masterminding the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, is numbing....
Laburist sal-mewt and proud of it
Sunday, 7 June 2020, 09:24
Last update: about 7 years ago
Victor Calleja
No meteor has hit my head and turned me into a Labour Party supporter or apologist. I have always tried to analyse and reach conclusions in the most objective of ways. I am not apolitical and hope...