The unfortunate but inevitable outcome
Wednesday, 4 November 2015, 09:33
Last update: about 10 years ago
No country sees a good man go without a heavy heart and Malta being smaller than most countries is even more dependent on each and every citizen. Dr Joe Cassar, who yesterday bowed to the...
If not by law, the burqa must be removed by popular fear
Tuesday, 3 November 2015, 10:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
There is no doubt that for the Maltese in general, as well as for many peoples in Europe, the insistence by Muslim persons, women especially, to wear the traditional Muslim headgear, the burqa, is a...
Stormy day for former minister
Monday, 2 November 2015, 09:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
Joe Cassar, a successful psychiatrist in private practice and former parliamentary secretary and later Minister for Health in the Gonzi administration was the only one out of that Cabinet who voted...
Parliament: Estimates done, now onto the agenda
Saturday, 31 October 2015, 16:42
Last update: about 10 years ago
And so, it’s done and dusted. Two and a half weeks after Finance Minister Edward Scicluna delivered the Budget Speech for 2016, the estimates for 15 minutes have been debated and now all that is...
Bilingualism: Teach kids more than one language at a young age
Friday, 30 October 2015, 16:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
Malta has had a long history of being a bilingual nation. It served our tourism industry well in the fledgling years when Brits found a home away from home where just about everyone could speak...
Cancer: The great wake-up call
Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 12:21
Last update: about 10 years ago
On Monday, the World Health Organisation dropped an atomic bomb in terms of publishing a report which found that processed meat and even red meat is carcinogenic to humans. Worse still, it said...
Beyond U-turns – Labour's 360° on Gozo tunnel
Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 11:42
Last update: about 10 years ago
Chris Said Labour has done a full circle on the Gozo tunnel issue. They have spent their two and a half years in government going round in a circle, and ending up exactly in the...
Alleged heartless brutality
Sunday, 20 September 2015, 09:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
The disturbing report about the alleged heartless brutality inflicted on that 10-year-old boy at Mount Carmel Hospital’s youth residence, which I came across on your paper’s website last...