Editorial: Who should actually resign over Egrant?
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 10:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
Calls for the Prime Minister’s resignation have come from far and wide practically since the outbreak of the multifaceted Panama Papers-Egrant scandal, which, at least on the surface, is...
Malta’s snap election et al
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 09:45
Last update: about 10 years ago
Ray Bugeja
After barely 4 years in government the Prime Minister called an early election – significantly during Malta’s presidency of the European Union. Why? Was it, as he says, because the...
Editorial: Malta’s reputation abroad - Send in the troopers
Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 10:20
Last update: about 10 years ago
The penny now seems to have dropped. The finance minister has been sent post-haste to Germany and will call the press to counteract stories that have portrayed Malta in a very bad...
A choice based on economic and social progress
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 10:22
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alex Muscat
On the 3rd June voters will choose between Joseph Muscat and Simon Busuttil. They will decide whether to end midway the plan that Joseph Muscat initiated in 2013 or whether they want to continue on....
Stability, continuity and credibility
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 10:20
Last update: about 10 years ago
Charles Mangion
As the country fast approaches the important day or reckoning on 3rd June it is important that voters reflect on the issues that will affect their day-to-day lives in the coming five years. They will...
Loyalty versus honesty
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 08:08
Last update: about 10 years ago
Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici
On the 9th May, the US President Donald Trump sacked James Comey, the Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Given our recent experience in Malta, where we have had no less than five...
Simon Busuttil putting pensions at risk
Monday, 15 May 2017, 07:56
Last update: about 10 years ago
Edward Zammit Lewis
The Opposition Leader has presented his thoughts for our pensions. After ignoring pensioners in the manifesto he wrote in 2013, this time he went for the big guns. He told us he would...
Infatuation with leaders
Monday, 15 May 2017, 07:52
Last update: about 10 years ago
Joe Cassar
We are in the midst of a political campaign, which like all other campaigns enhances in a big way our parochial culture and one-track mindedness. This year I am an outside observer of the two...
Alcoholism - Is it an illness?
Friday, 23 February 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Most of us cannot accept it but the reality is that alcoholism is an illness, a thoroughly progressive illness which can never really be cured but can be arrested. ...