Health privatisation by stealth
Friday, 10 July 2015, 12:10
Last update: about 12 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
In a newspaper article in March this year, the President of the Medical Association of Malta, Gordon Caruana Dingli, wrote about what any reform of our health system needed. “There should...
Criminal libel, not porn, should have been the priority
Thursday, 9 July 2015, 12:09
Last update: about 12 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
So the laws against pornography, blasphemy and the vilification of “the Roman Catholic Church and other cults recognised by law” are to be repealed. And not before time: they were already...
New choices
Thursday, 9 July 2015, 10:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Alfred Sant
It was interesting this week in Strasbourg to observe the reaction of European parliamentarians and others to the referendum results in Greece. Many seemed stunned and unable to understand what...
Tony’s story
Wednesday, 8 July 2015, 12:04
Last update: about 12 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
There is no greater love than that of a parent. Don’t we all know this? People who are fortunate enough to be parents and were handed this privilege know well-enough that they would...
Living on a shoe-string
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, 12:27
Last update: about 12 years ago
Gejtu Vella
At different junctures over the years, pensioners have received the short end of the stick. Although a minimal number of classes of pensioners were granted a revision, however piteous, in the...
Power back to the people in Europe
Monday, 6 July 2015, 08:56
Last update: about 12 years ago
Simon Mercieca
I have mixed feelings regarding the manner both the Government and the Opposition have been discussing and looking at the Greek crisis. On the one hand, I cannot but agree with the way, Finance...
Post referendum
Monday, 6 July 2015, 07:50
Last update: about 12 years ago
Alfred Sant
The results of the Tsipras referendum need to be assessed in a way that brings out clearly the meaning of the choices which the Greek people – as well as the peoples of the European Union...
This is not about racism. It’s about ħamallaġni.
Sunday, 5 July 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
After I wrote my column for The Malta Independent last Thursday, in which I joined the chorus of condemnation of what was done to Daboma Jack, I set to thinking about it a little more and realised...
Yes or No, the Greek crisis will not be resolved today
Sunday, 5 July 2015, 13:54
Last update: about 12 years ago
Noel Grima
I passed by the Greek Embassy in Ta’ Xbiex yesterday and I saw no crowd of Maltese patriots shouting outside “Give us back our €89 million”. But a few miles away, in...
Trying to squeeze out the small political parties?
Sunday, 5 July 2015, 13:36
Last update: about 12 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Legislation regulating the financing of political parties in Malta is long overdue. Alternattiva Demokratika has been harping on about this subject since its foundation in 1989 and has referred to it...