Malta should set its own ethical standards and get its act together

Rightly or wrongly, Malta has gained a reputation for notoriety in the international financial services/tax-hopping industry. The fact that we are not alone in this predicament is...

Malta is not the issue in Paradise Papers. It is the global financial system

Evarist Bartolo

Nothing is certain except death and taxes... if even. The real issue here is not Malta, it's the global financial system

Michael Falzon

There has never been a really healthy open PN leadership contest since Eddie Fenech Adami’s in 1977... there was then no PN establishment putting...

There has never been a really healthy open PN leadership...

Wanted: Strong lobby for domestic violence victims

Josanne Cassar

If the Labour government wants to be a truly left-wing, socialist government...

If the Labour government wants to be a truly left-wing,...

Saviour Balzan

The demolition of the Zebbug townhouses is far worse than the towers that Joe Portelli has erected, and were sanctioned even though the PA disregarded the...

The demolition of the Zebbug townhouses is far worse than...

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

The Nationalist Party is already committed to support the bill by its electoral programme: to vote against the bill today would be a complete reversal of the...

The Nationalist Party is already committed to support the...

Appeals of Small Claims Tribunal are limited to points of law

Malcolm Mifsud

A Court of Appeal presiding over a case of Fogg Insurance Agencies Ltd noe...

A Court of Appeal presiding over a case of Fogg...

Conservative voices should not be shut down

Josanne Cassar

The beauty of a democracy is that everyone’s beliefs can be represented...

The beauty of a democracy is that everyone’s beliefs...

They’re not ‘dinosaurs’. Dinosaurs are extinct...

Raphael Vassallo

Their precious Nationalist Party has just been gutted like an Icthyosaurus at...

Their precious Nationalist Party has just been gutted like...

Malta’s low readership is a wake-up call for the government

Mark Camilleri

Books are not just a cultural segment offering enjoyment and an experience....

Books are not just a cultural segment offering enjoyment...

‘Bringing down the government’ should not be the Opposition’s aim

The allegations which prompted the early election remain, as yet, unproven. If it transpires that they were inaccurate or untrue, ‘bringing down his...

The allegations which prompted the early election remain,...

Evarist Bartolo

A lot of people from Aleppo were killed. Residents had wrongly assumed the fighting would remain confined to other parts of the country

A lot of people from Aleppo were killed. Residents had...

The accounts posted and accepted by the Central Bank of Malta in 1972 show that the NBM was solvent to the tune of Lm2.9 million as audited by the bank’s...

The accounts posted and accepted by the Central Bank of...

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James Debono

Noel Muscat

Arnold Cassola

Not ‘traitors’, but certainly not ‘patriots’ either

Raphael Vassallo

By taking this idiotic partisan pique to the highest European levels, we...

By taking this idiotic partisan pique to the highest...

Michael Falzon

Many posts on blogs and on Facebook provoke such one-sided blind hate that one starts to doubt whether we really are a mature and civilised country

Many posts on blogs and on Facebook provoke such one-sided...

Josanne Cassar

I really think we need to publish a guide for any aspiring politician who is keen on getting involved at local council level in the hope that one day this will...

I really think we need to publish a guide for any aspiring...

Saviour Balzan

It is the people who cannot make ends meet who change the people at the top, not the man with the Chopard watch

It is the people who cannot make ends meet who change the...

This legislature opens at a time when its services are most needed. Unfortunately it also opens under a cloud of mutual antagonism and distrust. But this...

This legislature opens at a time when its services are most...

Delusionally utopian or sound principles?

The conception of a feel-good factor is deceptive if it does not conform with...

The conception of a feel-good factor is deceptive if it...