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Decoding the hospital’s judgment: A legal analysis | Carlos Bugeja

This article seeks to address these gaps by providing a clearer and strictly legal analysis

Rehabilitating St Luke’s Hospital

Michael Falzon

It is by now obvious that Malta needs a long-term holistic plan for health facilities and their supporting administration. Such a plan must have the support of the party in...

Back to school, but are authorities preparing teachers for an unusual return?

Michael Falzon

Nothing has been said about this point – either by the education ministry or by the teachers’ unions. Surely starting this scholastic year as if...

Nothing has been said about this point – either by...

Saviour Balzan

When Joseph Muscat fell from grace, those that believed in him and stood by him, cried not because he left; but because they suddenly realised to what...

When Joseph Muscat fell from grace, those that...

What have we become? (Or were we always like this...)

Josanne Cassar

The frequency of violent acts seems to permeate our consciousness because we...

The frequency of violent acts seems to permeate our...

Konrad Mizzi would have passed the PN’s ‘due diligence’ test with flying colours...

Raphael Vassallo

The rest, as they say, is history… but it is a history that seems destined to keep repeating itself forever (or at least, for as long as political...

The rest, as they say, is history… but it is a...

Yes, people need protection... and no, they’re not getting it

Raphael Vassallo

Faced with a seemingly endless series of questionable, even bizarre bail...

Faced with a seemingly endless series of questionable, even...

Michael Falzon

When finance ministry read in the papers about what his ministry had approved without his knowledge, did he not ask his permanent secretary for an explanation?

When finance ministry read in the papers about what his...

We depend on the judicial system, now more than ever

Saviour Balzan

So we have to believe that the judicial system will see through all this, and...

So we have to believe that the judicial system will see...

Do you want schools to open? Then just wear that mask!

Josanne Cassar

While those in post-secondary education have also been thrown into a tailspin...

While those in post-secondary education have also been...

Raphael Vassallo

Bernard Grech, on the other hand… well, the most we can realistically...

Bernard Grech, on the other hand… well, the most we...

The PM’s vision: generic waffle and cliché | Mario Mallia

The country seems stuck in a competition of endless waffle and clichés...

The country seems stuck in a competition of endless waffle...

Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps

Michael Falzon

It declared that ‘food’ should be interpreted as snacks and...

It declared that ‘food’ should be interpreted...

Raphael Vassallo

Call me suspicious, but I can’t help feeling that two controversial decisions in a single week does not exactly bode very well for the general health of...

Call me suspicious, but I can’t help feeling that two...

Shedding crocodile tears over a programme many loved to hate

Josanne Cassar

Those who are gnashing their teeth and wringing their hands over the end of the...

Those who are gnashing their teeth and wringing their hands...

Saviour Balzan

Xarabank was a programme that reached most homes across the island, used its influence to marshal nationwide charity appeals, and became a port of call for all...

Xarabank was a programme that reached most homes across the...

Raphael Vassallo

Like the problem of overcrowding at Malta’s prison, for instance… which has once again risen to the surface, after a number of inmates staged an...

Like the problem of overcrowding at Malta’s prison,...

You can’t solve problems with empty catch-phrases

Raphael Vassallo

If politicians are not even going to try and come up with any solutions to...

If politicians are not even going to try and come up with...

Edward Scicluna’s pathetic ‘it wasn’t me’

Michael Falzon

There is no escape clause for minister Edward Scicluna, even if he has pleaded:...

There is no escape clause for minister Edward Scicluna,...

We know what the mistakes were, but now we need solutions

Josanne Cassar

We all know that one of Malta’s major mistakes was not requiring any swab...

We all know that one of Malta’s major mistakes was...