Regulating the rental market
Michael Falzon
The most glaring absence in the White Paper is that it lacks any indication of what penalties are involved when landlords or tenants ignore the rules, like, for example, making a...
A poll about murder... maybe they’re onto something
Raphael Vassallo
How can 94.4% of PN voters believe it was the government, while 22.2% – of the same pool of voters, please note – think it was the Opposition who killed Daphne Caruana...
Summertime, and the livin’s (not) easy
Michael Falzon

This Matteo is a different kettle of fish and political observers think that Malta is in for a long hot summer, spending days of bickering with Italy about...

This Matteo is a different kettle of fish and political...

The priority list
Saviour Balzan

I am informed that the legal representatives of a business concern in the locality passed on a message to the Archbishop on the matter well before the story...

I am informed that the legal representatives of a business...

We don’t need another hero
Josanne Cassar

As a nation I think many have this real need to look up to a political leader in the same way that they hero-worship their favourite footballer

As a nation I think many have this real need to look up to...

10 years later…

While the PN struggles with creating an alternative vision for governing, Muscat shows no signs of slowing down his own reformist pace; even after five...

While the PN struggles with creating an alternative vision...

Why all the fuss?
Raphael Vassallo

While Malta may really be small and insignificant in the bigger European picture... we’re not entirely ‘powerless’, you know

While Malta may really be small and insignificant in the...

Agricultural lease is terminated  due to illegal construction
Malcolm Mifsud

The defendants filed a statement of defence and in it they claimed that the...

The defendants filed a statement of defence and in it they...

Emma is better off out of the toxic atmosphere of ‘Amici’
Josanne Cassar

Time will tell if Emma Muscat makes it big. As for Amici... with...

Time will tell if Emma Muscat makes it big. As for...

Something’s got to give

The effects of construction emerge as a single category of concern within the top four national concerns. And when coupled with the environment in...

The effects of construction emerge as a single category of...

Emma, making Malta proud
Frank Psaila

Frank Psaila talks about Emma Muscat, double standards in the European Parliament, cheated consumers, and Italy's political crisis  

Frank Psaila talks about Emma Muscat, double standards in...

When sweeping under the carpet just won’t do
Evarist Bartolo

We must make sure we’re there for our family, friends and those close to...

We must make sure we’re there for our family, friends...

[WATCH] Visiting MEPs, holy deals and Joseph Muscat's electoral supremacy
Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan shares his thoughts on the unorthodox meeting between visiting MEPs and magistrates probing the Egrant affair and Daphne Caruana Galizia's...

Saviour Balzan shares his thoughts on the unorthodox...

Saving bandsman Borg... but what about landlords’ rights?
Michael Falzon

Band clubs do serve a social purpose and bandsman Borg needs a place where to...

Band clubs do serve a social purpose and bandsman Borg...

Historical revisionism? Mintoff in a tie...
Raphael Vassallo

The Malta of my childhood was overshadowed by fear: the fear of Mintoff, which...

The Malta of my childhood was overshadowed by fear: the...

Understanding government’s remit on IVF and surrogacy | Maria Brown

Those who marry in Church for reasons of faith are also capable of reconciling...

Those who marry in Church for reasons of faith are also...

Two Maltese judges walk into a meeting to brief three MEPs...
Saviour Balzan

It’s no joke: it’s insulting that two members of the judiciary...

It’s no joke: it’s insulting that two members...

A whole lot of issues make one big issue
Josanne Cassar

Complacency is a dangerously seductive state of mind – after all, it is much easier to throw in the towel, kick back and let others get all worked up and...

Complacency is a dangerously seductive state of mind...

Priorities in a changing Malta

Perhaps the most striking statistic is an apparent spike in concerns with environmental degradation, coupled with the effects of the construction industry

Perhaps the most striking statistic is an apparent spike in...

Italy’s shadow looms large over Europe
Matthew Bugeja

Rome’s problems have been decades in the making – but the proposed solutions are high-risk at a time in which Italy can ill afford them

Rome’s problems have been decades in the making...