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Protection of minors in the digital age

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 08:57 Last update: about 11 months ago Kevin Aquilina

Society has always felt the need to protect minors from harm. This has taken several forms such as criminalising physical abuse of minors, paedophilia and sexual abuse of all sorts, protection from...

If it’s not illegal, it must be right

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 08:56 Last update: about 11 months ago Kevin Cassar

Deputy Leader Alex Agius Saliba was out defending Labour's decision to deploy Neville Gafa as the party's "new weapon" in Gozo. For those who've never heard of him, Gafa is a shady character who...

Gozo: A pool of broken promises

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 08:49 Last update: about 11 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Prime Minister Robert Abela, it seems, has always recognised Gozo as more than just a geographical place. For any Maltese PM, the island becomes a stage, really, where promises need to travel across...

An ageing workforce need not be a problem

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 08:39 Last update: about 11 months ago Frans Camilleri

Not a week passes by that we don't read reports that some country's indigenous population is at risk of disappearing because of collapsing fertility.  Demographic doom has become pervasive: ...

New challenges, new energy for a bright tomorrow

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 08:29 Last update: about 11 months ago Julie Zahra

There is renewed energy flowing through the corridors of PN HQ in Pietá. Certainly, a lot of it is due to the election of Alex Borg as new leader of the Nationalist Party. However, I trust this...

Obstructing electro-mobility

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 11 months ago Carmel Cacopardo

The European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers in May 2018 approved Directive 844 of 2018 amending the as well as the . Directive 844 of 2018 seeks to further determine the...

Inequality within equality

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 07:55 Last update: about 11 months ago Mark Said

Currently, our family law is supposedly based on the principle of gender equality. However, despite this foundation, both formal and substantive discrimination persist. It is imperative to apply a...

When I blocked half of Malta

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 07:44 Last update: about 11 months ago Noel Grima

It was, I remember, one evening in the 1970s. I had been to Valletta or Floriana for some meeting and was on my way home in Hamrun. Suddenly I remembered I had left some unfinished business at...

The smart path to automatic enrolment pension implementation

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 07:38 Last update: about 11 months ago David Spiteri Gingell

I have been banging the drum for Auto-Enrolment (AE) since 2009. Not because I like the sound of it, but because Malta needs it. Our pension system cannot rely forever on pay-as-you-go promises and...

The hundred days of summer

Friday, 19 September 2025, 07:30 Last update: about 11 months ago Owen Bonnici

For many of us, summer is a season to look forward to: long days, family gatherings, and a welcome pause from the usual routine, but for us, summer is also a...

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