Calling the shots
Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:18
Last update: about 12 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
I feel that this ballot has shown us how much our country is developing in terms of participation, of engagement and of calling the shots. There are a number of pointers that indicate that our...
A post-referendum analysis: the Gonzi factor
Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 12:15
Last update: about 12 years ago
Simon Mercieca
The hunting referendum has come and gone. As rightly described by Alex Perici Calascione, this referendum gained nothing for the hunters and simply confirmed the status quo. However, the resulting...
Challenging times for the PN
Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 08:26
Last update: about 12 years ago
Gejtu Vella
Last Saturday, 68% of the electorate in 34 localities across Malta and Gozo accepted an open invitation and cast their vote to elect their mayor and other members of the respective local councils....
SHout got it all wrong
Monday, 13 April 2015, 09:44
Last update: about 12 years ago
Stephen Calleja
No matter how much they say that they lost by a whisker, the SHout campaign must look within to discover the reasons why spring hunting will continue for years to come. Losing by one vote is as big a...
Ready for another mauling, Simon?
Sunday, 12 April 2015, 11:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Noel Grima
By the time readers are reading this newspaper, the turnout of yesterday's voting will have been known. If people delayed going for their paper, by the time they get it they would already have had a...
We know it is pointless saying that the police should investigate
Sunday, 12 April 2015, 11:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Some elderly people who live in South Carolina and are members of a Christian church have been organising themselves over the last few weeks and revealing, bit by bit, how they were scammed of their...
One hundred and forty-eight
Sunday, 12 April 2015, 10:40
Last update: about 12 years ago
Jenny Pullicino Orlando
We’re simply not talking about what happened in Garissa, Kenya. No, really: I’m sorry, but in relative terms, no one is. Is it the geographical proximity or the colour of their skin that...
Taking back control
Sunday, 12 April 2015, 10:22
Last update: about 12 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Throughout this Sunday morning the Electoral Commission will supervise the counting of the votes cast in yesterday’s spring hunting abrogative referendum. The first reliable projections of the...
Glad All Over
Sunday, 12 April 2015, 10:19
Last update: about 12 years ago
Charles Flores
I always feel like stamping my feet and singing out Dave Clark’s sixties wonder hit Glad All Over – alone, in some isolated room of course, as I can neither dance nor sing – every...