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The numbers that show a robust arts and cultural sector

Friday, 14 February 2025, 08:16 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

Numbers can be boring. Admittedly, they weren't my favourite at school. But they are of course important tools and metrics that we need to properly analyse. Today, I am...

Agriculture in Malta

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

The news that a Maltese agricultural item, cheeselets made from sheep's milk, is getting the status of an original product, on a European basis, was very welcome. As a matter of fact, many speeches...

Justice in Palestine

Monday, 10 February 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

(Excerpt from a play which will not be written.)             Enter Israeli PM NETANYAHU with trusted  ADVISORS. He has just returned...

Bill No 125 – The latest nail in the rule of law coffin

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:42 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Aquilina

The undeclared purpose of Bill No. 125 ('the Bill') of 31 January 2025 is to minimise governmental accountability and embed therein the culture of impunity into Maltese Law. It is not dictated by the...

Gozo’s roads: A crisis ignored for too long

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:41 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Gozo's roads have become death traps, and Transport Malta does nothing about it and remains indifferent. From St Francis Square to the notorious Mġarr Road, the situation spirals out of control....

Labour’s lurid circus of cruelty

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:41 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

In the week before Christmas Robert Abela's Labour launched an attack on former Police Commissioner John Rizzo.  As he grappled with personal tragedy Labour savagely bashed Rizzo for cheap...

More than 69 seconds required

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:39 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

It is natural for EU countries in central and eastern Europe to be pre-occupied with issues of defence. They have been facing the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, day-in day-out, for...

Let’s avoid shipwrecking our festi!

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 08:27 Last update: about 2 years ago Julie Zahra

As tomorrow morning, many of us will perhaps be hitting that snooze button an extra time or two, since the country will be celebrating the much-loved feast of St Paul's Shipwreck, I wish to take the...

Is it a false dawn?

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 07:50 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

On Sunday the Nationalist Party awoke with a spring in its rank and file. Usually MaltaToday begins the month by announcing the results of its survey of voters.  This time it changed...

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