Reflections on a unique education system
Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:32
Last update: about 10 years ago
It is unique because nowhere in Europe do teachers have as much holidays as they do in Malta. Even Minister Bartolo admitted this lately. For example, in every EU country the academic year starts in...
Time for change
Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:31
Last update: about 10 years ago
It has been two weeks since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder. Horror has turned to anger, and that anger is now turning into a realisation that as a nation we are utterly immature. In the wake of...
Less a corps than a corpse
Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
Let us put aside for a moment, and for our collective sanity, any suggestion that Daphne's gruesome end was the result of a political hatchet job and lean to the only alternative that it was a...
Fuel money
Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:29
Last update: about 10 years ago
An opportunity to get a glimpse at the world’s petrol prices for the period 2007 - 2017 is available in the July issue of the Italian motor enthusiast’s magazine ‘Quatroruote’...
TMID Editorial: Daphne’s murder - Not a final farewell
Saturday, 4 November 2017, 08:19
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia may have been laid to rest yesterday, the country may have had its national day of mourning, and well wishers may have paid their final respects. But the fact of the...
Opinion: Mob rule vs the rule of law - Kevin Aquilina
Thursday, 2 November 2017, 12:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
Kevin Aquilina
Ongoing public vociferous calls for the resignation of the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Police by the Nationalist Party and civil society organisations raises the issue of mob rule versus...
We Are the Church
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 20 years ago
Malta Independent
Joseph Zammit’s letter entitled An uphill task for the Church (TMID, 3 March) is factual, but Mr Zammit’s attitude lacks conviction. ...
Talking Of an election mode
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 20 years ago
Malta Independent
While the Nationalist media tried to give us the impression that during Xarabank, the PM committed himself to a 2008 general election, although I followed his words carefully...