Of foreigners, religion and integration
Friday, 7 October 2016, 10:58
Last update: about 9 years ago
Salvu Mallia
In today’s vlog, Salvu Mallia deals with the presence of so many foreigners in our midst. Taking the recent controversy about the opening of a prayer room for Muslims in St Paul’s...
Muscat’s closet
Friday, 7 October 2016, 10:50
Last update: about 9 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
The surveys published last Sunday by MaltaToday show a striking picture. The story has a very simple and clear message – Labour, under the leadership of Joseph Muscat, has managed to lose the...
Thursday Notebook
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 10:02
Last update: about 9 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
You know the traffic situation is completely out of control when on the same morning (yesterday, as it happens), two Air Malta flights - one to Munich and the other to Amsterdam - are delayed because...
Expenses
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 07:37
Last update: about 9 years ago
Alfred Sant
For the upcoming budget, in between the lines or openly, a big challenge is looming. While it is in the overall interest of the government – as is natural – now to make sure that the...
The political season is open
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 08:21
Last update: about 9 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
I am sure that many would say the silly season did nothing this time round to quieten the political backbiting and squabbling. I remember that a couple of years ago political bickering was lost...
Coke and popcorn at the Law Courts
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 09:25
Last update: about 9 years ago
Gejtu Vella
Please take this piece with a pinch of salt and a measure of sarcasm. Through the grapevine I have heard that coffee-shop, bar and restaurant owners in Valletta, whether their place of business...
Mhux ovvja
Monday, 3 October 2016, 10:39
Last update: about 9 years ago
Marlene Farrugia
Mhux ovvja li allaħares nagħtu mandat ieħor lil Muscat biex jiggverna. U mhux ovvja li l-Oppożizzjoni jeħtieġ tingħaqad biex tipprovdi gvern alternattiv...
Conflict of interest
Monday, 3 October 2016, 07:55
Last update: about 9 years ago
Alfred Sant
I was one of the first to raise controversies about the need to clear conflicts of interest out of public management. Still we need not go over the top, whether we act in good or bad faith. To...
Traffic, traffic and still more traffic
Monday, 3 October 2016, 07:53
Last update: about 9 years ago
Simon Mercieca
Back to school and, much to our dismay, we have an enormous increase of traffic on our roads. As a consequence, since last Monday, the number of cars on the road using our main thoroughfares in the...
Jobs for the (unfit for purpose) boys
Sunday, 2 October 2016, 11:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Perhaps this makes sense in some kind of alternative universe: newspapers have reported the Prime Minister as saying that he would “consider pulling the plug on negotiations between Alitalia and...