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Steady progress, with purpose

Miriam Dalli

With the latest call now open, eligible groups can apply for up to €27,000 to help fund upgrades that cut emissions and operational costs. The high level of interest is...

There’s no need to choose: Palliative care and euthanasia can coexist

James Debono

Dignity means recognising that a life burdened by intolerable pain and loss of control is not worth preserving at all costs. Otherwise we would be treating life as an ideological...

Saviour Balzan

The time has come for all of us to have the right to walk freely without some show of force by alleged occupier who think they have the right to threaten whom...

The time has come for all of us to have the right to walk...

Malta can foster cooperation as a viable alternative to myopic competition | Victor Fiorini

We spend a substantial chunk of our lives at the workplace and it should be nothing short of a rewarding experience | Victor Fiorini, Malta Cooperative...

We spend a substantial chunk of our lives at the workplace...

No, they didn’t try to ‘ban Christmas’ (they just did something much stupider, that’s all…)

Raphael Vassallo

The nature of ‘Christmas’ itself will not change one iota, just because you use a different word to describe it. It will still remain precisely the...

The nature of ‘Christmas’ itself will not...

Evarist Bartolo

We welcome the return of quiet diplomacy to US-Russia relations, even if with a limited agenda. We must ‘learn to live with each other’

We welcome the return of quiet diplomacy to US-Russia...

Michael Falzon

Grech did not enter into the merits of where in the world the three ‘independent’ persons would be found and who would take this veritable poisoned...

Grech did not enter into the merits of where in the world...

Malta’s education and employment crisis requires a sense of urgency

Bernard Grech

Sweeping the problems under the rug until the next election won’t make...

Sweeping the problems under the rug until the next election...

What’s worse for our ‘social well-being’? Cannabis… or a governability crisis?

Raphael Vassallo

What both those approaches have in common, though, is that they simply disregard a somewhat crucial detail: that the same ‘cannabis reform’ they...

What both those approaches have in common, though, is that...

Let’s remove the drama and mystery surrounding the election date

Josanne Cassar

This love of mystery and drama surrounding the election date is all...

This love of mystery and drama surrounding the election...

Happy holidays and no kissing under the mistletoe

Saviour Balzan

To move away from the mistletoe and onto the all-important turkey, perhaps the...

To move away from the mistletoe and onto the all-important...

Miriam Dalli

During this year, we encouraged households and businesses to invest more in renewable energy

During this year, we encouraged households and...

We are empowering whistleblowers yet again | Edward Zammit Lewis

Explained: the new amendments to the Maltese whistleblower law following up on...

Explained: the new amendments to the Maltese whistleblower...

This party ain’t big enough for both of us…

Raphael Vassallo

Based only on a lifetime of watching Westerns, my own prediction is that...

Based only on a lifetime of watching Westerns, my own...

The concrete siege of Gozo | Maresca Demanuele

Preserving what makes Gozo unique is the best investment in the island’s...

Preserving what makes Gozo unique is the best investment in...

Michael Falzon

Will Roberta Metsola’s success in European politics be the spark that starts the road to politicians ditching fanaticism and hate and replacing them with...

Will Roberta Metsola’s success in European politics...

‘Water, water everywhere…’ and not a drop was saved

Raphael Vassallo

… and when we evidently can’t even handle the sheer amount of...

… and when we evidently can’t even handle the...

Getting things done? More like getting us drowned

Josanne Cassar

Despite the millions spent and the snappy hashtag about #gettingthingsdone,...

Despite the millions spent and the snappy hashtag about...

A reform that needs all stakeholders on board

Saviour Balzan

The press is facing a threat of extinction because of a lack of revenues, and...

The press is facing a threat of extinction because of a...

Our experience: fertility struggles are emotionally taxing and we must talk about them

Mark Camilleri Gambin

There seems to be an unspoken consensus that such matters ought be kept secret. Yet we believe that the benefits from not suffering in silence outweigh these...

There seems to be an unspoken consensus that such matters...