Strong leadership, management by crisis or a dictatorship?
Josanne Cassar
While the Prime Minister keeps insisting the economy cannot be put on pause, the hellish construction works next door have brought the quality of life of so many to a standstill
The medicine the country needs
Saviour Balzan
The Occupy Justice luminaries, with their typical political bias and make-up, have made it more difficult for the right people in the right organisations to come forward to...
A local challenge but a global solution
Evarist Bartolo

Striking a balance between competing demands will rarely lead to an either/or choice or even a single solution. Individuals will need to think in a more...

Striking a balance between competing demands will rarely...

The Dubaification of the construction industry
Michael Falzon

Unfortunately, this is the downside of cosmopolitan Malta – and the buck...

Unfortunately, this is the downside of cosmopolitan Malta...

It takes tuna to tango...
Raphael Vassallo

Ah yes. The small matter of why an investigation into Malta’s tuna industry took place all those yonks ago in 2010, but was unaccountably (in all senses...

Ah yes. The small matter of why an investigation into...

Your name is your stamp of identity for life
Josanne Cassar

However, for the children themselves, this name is their ‘label’;...

However, for the children themselves, this name is their...

Wanted: A brain transplant
Saviour Balzan

The writing is on the wall… the PN needs a transplant of the soul and of the brain

The writing is on the wall… the PN needs a...

Let’s not abort all discussion...

To banish all discussion is therefore also to banish ways in which existing legislation can be made more effective

To banish all discussion is therefore also to banish ways...

Summary dismissal of employees is the exception not the rule
Malcolm Mifsud

A recent Appeals Court case determined that an employer may only dismiss an...

A recent Appeals Court case determined that an employer may...

Students should be righting what is wrong, not perpetuating it
Josanne Cassar

But here, where students are paid to study and for the most part still live at...

But here, where students are paid to study and for the most...

If politicians won’t discuss policy issues… why do they even exist?
Raphael Vassallo

There is, after all, no point in choosing between different parties or candidates, if they’re all equally hellbent on keeping everything exactly as it is

There is, after all, no point in choosing between different...

Is the Gozo tunnel a fait accompli?

This raises the question: is the Gozo tunnel already a fait accompli? Are these studies simply being conducted as a cosmetic exercise, without any real...

This raises the question: is the Gozo tunnel already a fait...

[WATCH] The great abortion row of 2019
Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan on the abortion debate debacle inside Alternattiva Demokratika, and the recent Cabinet meeting at Salini

Saviour Balzan on the abortion debate debacle inside...

How Malta turned the tables  on the labour market
Evarist Bartolo

As our economy continues to grow we will continue being asked to answer new...

As our economy continues to grow we will continue being...

The Devil came down to Bormla...
Raphael Vassallo

If the Devil really did exist… which initiative would he consider more worthwhile? Precipitating a global catastrophe costing millions of lives…...

If the Devil really did exist… which initiative...

Security in public schools
Michael Falzon

Many incidents can easily be avoided if school management is more efficient than it currently is

Many incidents can easily be avoided if school management...

Why Mina is right, and Arnold is not
Saviour Balzan

Now that Mina Tolu made a very sensible and moderate attempt at addressing the abortion taboo, Cassola expected AD's executive committee to disassociate...

Now that Mina Tolu made a very sensible and moderate...

We are the world
Josanne Cassar

It seems to me that we want others to accept us as we are, as it suits us, but we refuse to offer them the same courtesy

It seems to me that we want others to accept us as we are,...

Malta’s tuna trade needs to be publicly investigated

The latest indications have raised serious questions about the manner in which...

The latest indications have raised serious questions about...

Court does not accept clauses that hide an elevated interest rate on loan
Malcolm Mifsud

The court found that any loan agreement which hides the fact that more than 8% interest is being charged is not to be accepted

The court found that any loan agreement which hides the...