The “polluter pays” principle is considered a good attempt for environmental protection. However, one has to be assured that the money collected from eco-tax will be utilised solely for environmental progress....

Unfortunately, there is still lack of awareness concerning the serious threat to our health and environment posed by the continued widespread use of plastic bags in this country. Noel Grima’s informative article on the problem with plastic bags (TMIS 16 ...

A recent leading article in a local daily lamented that “we have started the new year on the wrong foot”, adding that “it is not too late to reverse the situation, but the social partners ought to live up to their responsibilities”....

Writing in The Malta Independent over the Christmas season, Competitiveness and Communications Minister Censu Galea dealt at length on the workings of his ministry in the maritime sector, so important for a country that is surrounded by sea....

The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) is making hay while the sun shines. I do not blame them. ...

Never before in the annals of Maltese legislation was there a bigger breakdown in communication than the chaotic situation over which Minister George Pullicino presided with regard to the introduction of the eco-contribution. ...

If the Hon. Minister for the Environment really wants to reduce the number of spent cartridges littering our countryside, let him make it illegal to use shotguns with more than two shots at one loading. ...

Blaming it all on the welfare state seems to be the best and the easiest way to address most governments’ woes....

Nothing perhaps better illustrates the non-seriousness of the demonstration today than Tony Zarb’s choice of words last Friday:...

Some people are so surprising – or perhaps they are entirely predictable. ...