The government regrets its market stall promise
Thursday, 30 April 2015, 07:47
Last update: about 12 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The saga of the market stalls continues. Except that it doesn’t. They were supposed to be there in and around parliament house already, but they aren’t. At first the government blamed the...
An educational system that throws out the baby with the bathwater
Wednesday, 29 April 2015, 08:10
Last update: about 12 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
Like many other parents I am driving around the island taking my son to his A-Level and Intermediate exams and my daughter to sit for her O-Levels. This is the time when as a parent I realise...
It worked perfectly for Joseph Muscat
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 12:37
Last update: about 12 years ago
Stephen Calleja
It happened just the way Joseph Muscat imagined it. He did not want spring hunting to stop, knowing that Labour stood to lose support, and in the referendum he voted in favour of retaining the...
How should we interpret the local council election results?
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 08:24
Last update: about 12 years ago
Simon Mercieca
The PN can rightly claim to have come out victorious in these local council elections. It is true that Labour won in terms of votes and percentages, but it is also true that the gap or difference...
Can’t start a fire without a spark
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 08:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Gejtu Vella
This coming Friday it’s Workers’ Day. In many countries it is a public holiday. A day marked with a wide range of activities. Locally, a quick search in the website of the leading...
It’s not news
Monday, 27 April 2015, 13:17
Last update: about 12 years ago
Stephen Calleja
Many times we’re criticised for editorial decisions that we make. It’s part of the job. It has happened again this weekend, when we chose to upload a story about the civil union of...
Fumes of death
Monday, 27 April 2015, 08:05
Last update: about 12 years ago
Marlene Farrugia
On the economic front it seems that as a country we are doing well. Not just doing well, but thriving on a tangible positive feeling that we can achieve, we can improve and we can do...
Being bossy and dogmatic about other people’s property
Sunday, 26 April 2015, 11:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Astrid Vella of Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar has had nothing much to say, with or without a megaphone, for the last two years – though she broke her silence briefly to say how pleased she was...
A world apart
Saturday, 25 April 2015, 08:26
Last update: about 12 years ago
Rachel Borg
The truth is slowly coming to the surface. Each corpse of child, man or woman that is lifted from the sea and every mental image of a sunken ship with 300 bodies locked in the hold, now...
Colonial arrogance
Friday, 24 April 2015, 17:27
Last update: about 12 years ago
Simon Mercieca
The pre-summit meeting held in Brussels, among the Prime Minister of Italy, Renzi, the German Chancellor Merkel, Hollande of France and Cameron of Britain smacks of colonial arrogance. They met to...