Virginity testing law: pre-empting legal loopholes
Mark Said
Admittedly, a law that bans virginity testing strengthens the physician’s refusal. However, such a law ignores the broader goal of enabling children to navigate the path to...
The secret weapon to boost employee performance | Alexiei Dingli
Unlike the ‘one-size-fits-all’ model, AI-driven platforms analyse an employee’s performance data, learning history, and even their preferred learning mode to...
When justice is warped and denied
Saviour Balzan

Is there is no one out there who has the gall to question the political class, the judiciary and the police when justice is denied?

Is there is no one out there who has the gall to question...

Religious peccadilloes have no place in our Criminal Code
Matthew Vella

Malta’s rankings in press freedom leagues remain burdened by laws that...

Malta’s rankings in press freedom leagues remain burdened...

Meet the residents
Jurgen Balzan

Although local councils have been around for almost 20 years they have not fulfilled the promised change in the way of doing politics in Malta.

Although local councils have been around for almost 20...

Gale force politics
Saviour Balzan

If I had a vote in Sliema, I would vote for Julian Galea. A vote for mediocrity and apartheid politics.

If I had a vote in Sliema, I would vote for Julian Galea. A...

‘But for her name begins with G…’
Raphael Vassallo

OK, so Joanna Gonzi doesn’t like Labourites and neither does Julian Galea. Gee, who would have ever guessed?

OK, so Joanna Gonzi doesn’t like Labourites and neither...

Expensive puppets on a string
Evarist Bartolo

The country has for far too long been run by politicians described by Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis in The Fratricides.

The country has for far too long been run by politicians...

The quota problem
Claudine Cassar

I sometimes wonder if people who spout such nonsense actually stop to think about what they are saying. Their opinion of women must be really low...

I sometimes wonder if people who spout such nonsense...

Enemalta: The sick man of Malta
Michael Falzon

The government publicly ridiculed Labour's promises to reduce water and energy tariffs.

The government publicly ridiculed Labour's promises to...

St Paul's Bay: My home town, my story
Carmen Sammut

Today's political analysts would describe the conservative traditional village of my childhood as 'deep blue'. But this blue became now paler and paler.

Today's political analysts would describe the conservative...

St Paul's Bay: My home town, my story
Carmen Sammut

I sit in my room in Nablus, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is the first day of a long weekend thanks to a public holiday celebrating Women's Day....

I sit in my room in Nablus, in the Occupied Palestinian...

It’s Women’s Day! Needlework, anyone?
Caroline Muscat

We cannot address gender inequality without examining the culture, belief...

We cannot address gender inequality without examining the...

Councils that truly serve residents
Michael Briguglio

Alternattiva Demokratika's policies go beyond partisan pique, and AD councillors have always worked for resident's interests first and foremost.

Alternattiva Demokratika's policies go beyond partisan...

Vive la revolution!
Raphael Vassallo

Tonio Fenech now appears to acknowledge his government was economically (if not also socially) irresponsible to raise those tariffs the way it did.

Tonio Fenech now appears to acknowledge his government was...

Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan

MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan on how the PN and the PL accuse each other of wrongdoings but then fail to shoulder responsibility for their own...

MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan on how the PN and...

Attenti al lupo
Saviour Balzan

Politicians of all colours and hues imagine that we have short memories. But we do not.

Politicians of all colours and hues imagine that we have...

Close to me
Raphael Vassallo

Oh dear. It must be getting to ‘that time of year’ again. You know, the time when not even Paris Hilton can realistically handle any further penetration of...

Oh dear. It must be getting to ‘that time of year’...

Dishonest politics at its best
Evarist Bartolo

Government does not have money to help vulnerable people yet it still finds money to pay consultants €6,000 a month, build a bridge to nowhere costing €3...

Government does not have money to help vulnerable people...

Stipends and blood diamonds
Claudine Cassar

If bribing young people with cash hand-outs is what it takes, then so be it. What I do have a problem with is the fact that government cannot afford these...

If bribing young people with cash hand-outs is what it...