Stronger freedom of expression
Friday, 13 April 2018, 08:26
Last update: about 9 years ago
Owen Bonnici
The new Media and Defamation Bill is now at its final stages as it has reached unanimous approval at committee stage. This Bill is historic. It provides an unprecedented freedom to our...
Warning
Thursday, 12 April 2018, 14:59
Last update: about 9 years ago
David Stellini
That’s how the Finance Minister characterised the news that HSBC might leave our shores and shed hundreds of jobs. “It’s a warning!” the Finance Minister Edward Scicluna said...
Security and terrorism
Thursday, 12 April 2018, 08:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
Alfred Sant
Deep questions about security and terrorism in Europe remain open. Some say that the blowback of Islamic militants to Europe which was expected to happen once ISIS were almost destroyed in Syria,...
Archbishop Scicluna should mince his words
Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 08:13
Last update: about 9 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
Let’s agree that Christ is the main inspiration of any Archbishop. Christ would say it as-it-is even if it would irk the leaders of the community. Christ wasn’t always...
Look closer
Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 09:02
Last update: about 9 years ago
Camilla Appelgren
I am usually very fascinated by the deep blue, the never ending sea. However I will dedicate this column to something small. Even though it's small size, it has had the greatest impact on me. I'm not...
The Marsa project
Monday, 9 April 2018, 08:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
Alfred Sant
It could be that the experience of others has been the opposite of mine; meanwhile, by mentioning the Marsa project, I have no wish to bring it any kind of bad luck. Still, I have to state that since...
Bitcoin and the return of traditional family values
Monday, 9 April 2018, 07:57
Last update: about 9 years ago
Simon Mercieca
Last February, when speaking at the CEPS Ideas Lab Conference, in Brussels, on “Reconstructing Europe”, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat referred to crypto-currencies. Rightly so, he said that...
Less than a year now
Sunday, 8 April 2018, 11:00
Last update: about 9 years ago
Noel Grima
It has gone largely unnoticed so far, but last week President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca began the last year of her term in office. She will be going round laying flowers at the monuments of her...
The Planning Authority encourages land speculation
Sunday, 8 April 2018, 09:56
Last update: about 9 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Development permits for fuel stations are being approved left, right and centre by the Planning Authority. Some months ago, in a speech made in public, the Prime Minister said that the...
Can we afford it?
Saturday, 7 April 2018, 08:10
Last update: about 9 years ago
Rachel Borg
The scene is set and done and the curtain has been raised. By now, the method and roadmap of the Labour Movement is exposed and generally a subject of public opinion or a matter of...