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The right of persons with disability to vote in secrecy

Sunday, 5 June 2022, 07:35 Last update: about 4 years ago

“In line with the CRPD, the majority of EU countries offer persons with disabilities the possibility of freely choosing assistance to vote. However, in Greece and Malta, only election officials...

TMID Editorial: Why we went to Ukraine

Saturday, 4 June 2022, 09:57 Last update: about 4 years ago

The short answer is: because we are journalists, and this is what journalists do – they go where the story is.  This might be obvious to many of our readers, but we felt the need to write...

TMID Editorial: On police action and inaction

Friday, 3 June 2022, 08:45 Last update: about 4 years ago

The police force has been one of the entities which has been under the microscope the most in the last decade. We had years under the Joseph Muscat administration where police commissioners were...

TMID Editorial: A serious discussion on a delicate subject

Thursday, 2 June 2022, 09:59 Last update: about 4 years ago

Medical ethics professor Pierre Mallia sent an important message on the way Malta should tackle the subject of euthanasia, if and when it takes centre-stage. In an interview he gave to The Malta...

TMID Editorial: A reasonable way forward

Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 09:09 Last update: about 4 years ago

Anyone who goes shopping on a regular basis has realised that the items he or she used to buy until last year have gone up in price. It’s not a few cents here and there. The increase has...

That hand of friendship

Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 14:15 Last update: about 4 years ago Mark Said

So immediately after his last resounding electoral victory, in a quite unexpected and surprising manner, Prime Minister Robert Abela promised that he will 'extend a hand of friendship' to the...

TMID Editorial: Rising costs and the property sector

Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 12:18 Last update: about 4 years ago

In March, this newsroom reported how construction costs in Malta are rising due to the war in Ukraine and the lasting impact of Covid-19 on importation. It was again confirmed by the president of the...

A future like ours

Monday, 30 May 2022, 09:50 Last update: about 4 years ago

Some weeks ago, I posted on Facebook that I’m in favour of life from the moment of conception till death.  A person sent me a message saying that I’m discriminating others like the...

TMID Editorial: The road ahead for Bernard Grech

Monday, 30 May 2022, 08:54 Last update: about 4 years ago

Bernard Grech has been confirmed as the leader of the Nationalist Party by the party’s councillors, following a vote held on Saturday. All in all, the votes showed that 81% of the 1,390...

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