After the budget hubris, reality knocks on the door

If Malta ignores the commission’s warning it will only be doing so at its own peril

StudentAssist: A fairer shot at success | Alison Micallef

When capable students are unable to pursue higher qualifications due to financial barriers, skills gaps widen, and employers often fill roles through overseas recruitment....

Right of reply: ERA reacts to MaltaToday editorial on scrapyard fires

ERA says it ensured compliance at law before issuing permit for Marsa waste...

ERA says it ensured compliance at law before issuing permit...

Malta’s realigned AI strategy: A Human-Centred Vision | Silvio Schembri

AI must serve the community, not the other way around. It must help our SMEs compete, our public sector deliver better services, support the healthcare system,...

AI must serve the community, not the other way around. It...

Malta’s misfiring of Organic Food Action Plan

Arnold Cassola

If a bill were drawn up for branding, events and sponsored content costs, it...

If a bill were drawn up for branding, events and sponsored...

People are owed an explanation on scrapyard fires

The logical question to ask in these circumstances is how was the company...

The logical question to ask in these circumstances is how...

What Celebrity Traitors can teach us about group think and human behaviour

Josanne Cassar

I couldn’t help but draw parallels with the way groups of people are often swayed to think one way or another on current issues, if there is someone...

I couldn’t help but draw parallels with the way...

JP Fabri

The shift underway is therefore more than regulatory. It is philosophical. It...

The shift underway is therefore more than regulatory. It is...

Saviour Balzan

When walking in the street the other day I was scolded by a group of elderly men in the town where I live. They called me all sorts of names as I walked by...

When walking in the street the other day I was scolded by a...

Thomas Bajada

Real innovation or the kind that stands the test of time, is not only technological, but moral. It begins not in laboratories or boardrooms, but in our...

Real innovation or the kind that stands the test of time,...

Indeed, it is unprecedented that a court expert refuses to testify, even remotely. He has truly done a Houdini act—disappearing and leaving his audience...

Indeed, it is unprecedented that a court expert refuses to...

Court issues interim measure halting deportation of Albanian national | Andrew Drago

The case of Artan Coku vs The State Advocate and the Chief Principal Immigration Officer, has been granted an interim measure in favour of the...

The case of Artan Coku vs The State Advocate and the Chief...

Mark Said

This Jekyll and Hyde government is infuriating even a growing number of Labour loyalists. When it’s good, Robert Abela’s administration is truly...

This Jekyll and Hyde government is infuriating even a...

But the cherry on the cake is the last two words: ‘September 2025’. The PN had the gall to date its document as if it had presented it in time for...

But the cherry on the cake is the last two words:...

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Josanne Cassar

The numbers have spoken, the parties need to listen

This is why surveys are not the be all and all of politics—it would be a...

This is why surveys are not the be all and all of...

Beyond the swings of the two-party system

Mark Camilleri Gambin

What we learn from the Mamdani phenomenon and other recent political twists is...

What we learn from the Mamdani phenomenon and other recent...

The fuller story behind the 1985 hijack in Malta | Malcolm Scerri Ferrante

Beneath his composure, I sensed a man still burdened by the weight of that tragedy—a leader who believed he had acted rightly for his country, yet who...

Beneath his composure, I sensed a man still burdened by the...

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

It is only fair that a breach of human rights is quantified in financial terms and the State is made to bear the costs. After all, the State exists to promote...

It is only fair that a breach of human rights is quantified...

Miriam Dalli

Malta’s environmental strategy must be bold, creative, and unafraid of reshaping old habits

Malta’s environmental strategy must be bold,...