Maritime museum staff
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 10:56
Last update: about 12 years ago
I was in the area of this museum the other day watching the noon day gun being fired from across the harbour. On the way back and looking for a convenience, I popped into the Maritime museum...
The Overton Window’s hysterical levels
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 10:55
Last update: about 12 years ago
The window of public discourse seems to be ever more restricted with public perception being continuously skewed in a progressive, leftist mindset. We find ourselves in an increasingly one-sided...
Fortitude and politics in Malta
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 10:53
Last update: about 12 years ago
Michael Asciak
Fortitude is one of the cardinal virtues. It is however classically not construed to simply mean any act of courage, especially blind courage. Fortitude is fully dependent on, primarily, prudence as...
In need of the Healer
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 10:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
This is the grace I received when I had the joy of reading attentively the pastoral letter entitled “Christ our medicine for our illness”, well-written by Mgr Charles J. Scicluna,...
The twists and turns of the ODZ saga
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 10:51
Last update: about 12 years ago
It’s not even a year since the largest environmental protest in Malta was organised by Front Ħarsien ODZ in response to the government’s proposal for an allegedly “American...
Gozo: An island for all seasons
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 10:50
Last update: about 12 years ago
Anton Refalo
Islands everywhere have similarities in terms of limited resources, concentration of economic activity, dependence on trade, lack of economies of scale, and more vulnerable to whatever happens beyond...
Arts and culture, a means of empowerment
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 09:48
Last update: about 12 years ago
Broadly speaking, policies relating to ageing over the years have been oriented towards the health and/or social care needs of older people, exclusively referring to health care or social services...
The oligarchs
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 09:46
Last update: about 12 years ago
Clyde Puli
Oligarchy has once again found its way back into the Maltese political lexicon. This time around, however, the defecting MP raising the alarm against her own government’s methods comes from the...
Editorial: Immediate action required, again
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 09:30
Last update: about 12 years ago
It has been barely a month since the publication of the damning National Audit Office report on the Old Mint Street scandal. That report pointed to collusion in a case which involved the handing out...