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Asian food

Monday, 17 November 2025, 07:57 Last update: about 9 months ago Alfred Sant

One impact of the ever increasing number of foreign workers in Malta has been the opening of establishments selling Asian food in various areas of the island. It's not only immigrants who account for...

The real deception

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 08:40 Last update: about 9 months ago Kevin Cassar

If the PN's €400 million hospitals claim was false why did Robert Abela seek €760 million and then €488 million euro from Steward at the International Chamber of Commerce? If Steward...

Good governance in local councils: Lessons learnt

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 08:17 Last update: about 9 months ago Katya De Giovanni

Good governance is the foundation of democracy in action. It is what transforms elections into effective service delivery and public trust into tangible community progress. In Malta, local councils...

Another one bites the dust

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 08:17 Last update: about 9 months ago Valerie Visanich

I'm writing this, fuelled by coffee and feelings of nostalgia, a bittersweet ache for a lost past. After a walk through my childhood town, I discovered that a local grocer shop had been razed to the...

When a government needs public support

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 08:14 Last update: about 9 months ago Frans Camilleri

If there is anything we have learned over the last five decades, it is that structural reforms generate long‐term growth benefits.  This is true in both the economic and social fields, in...

Nature does not discriminate

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 08:03 Last update: about 9 months ago Carmel Cacopardo

At Belem, gateway to the Amazon, in Brazil, this week, world leaders, scientists, activists, negotiators, diplomats, indigenous peoples and other affected communities are gathering for...

Governance, not design, will make automatic enrolment work

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 07:22 Last update: about 9 months ago David Spiteri Gingell

Automatic enrolment (AE) is on its way.  It is the biggest pension change Malta has seen in twenty years.  It will shape how we save for the future - and show how ready our institutions are...

Political cowardice

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 07:19 Last update: about 9 months ago Mark Said

Leadership that demonstrates courage and honour should not be an exception, but the bare minimum that voters should demand. Constitutional duty requires courage, not conformity. A lack of political...

Ample areas of potential growth

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 07:11 Last update: about 9 months ago Noel Grima

I have had enough of voices of gloom and doom, forecasting all sorts of negatives for this our country. What haven't we heard? That we're doomed. That all the best of our young cannot wait to...

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