Top News • 26 January 2003

Opportunist Sant lets the rabbit out of the bag

The Labour leader has unleashed his new blueprint for the future and with it a last ditch attempt to win over Europhile labourites and undecided voters unhappy with the Nationalist government. <READ MORE>

Election expenditure law riddled with loopholes

By Kurt Sansone
Valletta - The billboard frenzy that the major political parties have embarked on is a clever way of getting around the electoral law that regulates expenditure during an election. By erecting the billboards before the start of the electoral campaign the rules of party spending do not apply. <READ MORE>

Property prices surge, with speculation rife

By David Lindsay
Unbridled speculation, scandalous amounts of vacant housing stock gathering dust, rent laws so antiquated their inspection is best suited to an archaeologist’s trained eye and exclusive developments pushing the property price ceiling ever-higher – there can be little doubt that Malta’s property market is in dire need of a stabilising elixir. <READ MORE>