Crazy little thing called ‘football’

Raphael Vassallo

Ched Evans is hardly the first ‘bad-boy’ footballer to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, you know. In what way was Diego Armando Maradona a ‘role...

Violence towards women is not a game

In a bizarre twist, the questionable initiative of a local football club very quickly turned into a political controversy in its own right, as various personalities chipped in...

Mark Camilleri

By Mark Camilleri, chairman of the National Book Council

The drug decriminalization debate is not without its pitfalls.

The drug decriminalization debate is not without its...

Nowhere is this culture more visible than in the widespread cavalier disregard for planning policies and regulations by both developers and the national...

Nowhere is this culture more visible than in the widespread...

Saviour Balzan

If we are talking of premeditated and multiple cold blooded murders, then surely granting bail should be denied in the best interests of society.

If we are talking of premeditated and multiple cold blooded...

Josanne Cassar

The language question in Malta is a source of continuous ongoing debate and often leads to irritation, exasperation and mutual antagonism on both sides.

The language question in Malta is a source of continuous...

Requisitioned property not given to owners in the public interest

Malcolm Mifsud

In a judgement delivered on Monday, 23 June, 2014 the court held that the fact...

In a judgement delivered on Monday, 23 June, 2014 the court...

Comparisons are inevitable, and Muscat’s choice will surely have struck a slightly dissonant chord.

Comparisons are inevitable, and Muscat’s choice will...

Can’t pay your bills? Don’t worry, that’s what foreigners are for…

Raphael Vassallo

We now also know that while the PN was busy avoiding its own financial commitments to at least one of its many creditors, it was also regularly defaulting...

We now also know that while the PN was busy avoiding its...

Evarist Bartolo

Adaptation is important in today’s labour market – if we prepare our youths to adapt to new ideas, technologies and concepts we are gearing them up...

Adaptation is important in today’s labour market...

Michael Falzon

The real issue was not the undermining of Air Malta, but the undermining of the lucrative scheduled air traffic business when this should have been an...

The real issue was not the undermining of Air Malta, but...