Road safety must be top priority

When it comes to road safety, the need for a zero-tolerance approach has to start now. As we were rightly shocked to see on Tuesday, these are matters of life or death

Donald Trump backs out of Iran nuclear deal: now what?

The Conversation

This isn’t about whether or not Iran has leeway to build a nuclear weapon; it’s about keeping tensions across the Middle East in check

A bank guarantee is an autonomous obligation

Malcolm Mifsud

A bank guarantee is intended to allow comfort for the bank to be paid for...

A bank guarantee is intended to allow comfort for the...

In order that nobody thinks we are vindictive, we give some money for charity as a hypocritical defence mechanism, before we proceed to snore peacefully on the...

In order that nobody thinks we are vindictive, we give some...

Domestic violence: Whose side are the police on?

Josanne Cassar

The macho “closing of ranks”, even within the top echelons of...

The macho “closing of ranks”, even within the...

Evarist Bartolo

The Achieve programme is reaching out to students who would have either dropped out of education or had nothing to show for it after eleven years of schooling

The Achieve programme is reaching out to students who would...

Valletta is European Capital of Culture. Reasons to celebrate?

Teodor Reljic

Looking at 2018 | What are the implications of pitching this potentially...

Looking at 2018 | What are the implications of pitching...

Michael Falzon

As from the new year, new EU regulations do not allow governments to make contract with companies whose ultimate owner is unknown – as is the case of...

As from the new year, new EU regulations do not allow...

Adrian Delia and a revolution of confidence

Frank Psaila

Those who wish Delia fails are foolishly cutting their nose to spite their face...

Those who wish Delia fails are foolishly cutting their nose...

Raphael Vassallo

The PN could only go one way or another; and whichever path it chose, it would automatically have lost a significant chunk of its voter base. The most recent...

The PN could only go one way or another; and whichever path...

Parties’ rare unity on hunting at Majjistral

Representations made by the park managers advising against this extension, were...

Representations made by the park managers advising against...

Josanne Cassar

Whether you live in a huge mansion and drive a Lamborghini, or whether you live in a modest mud hut in the middle of Africa where your feet are your only means...

Whether you live in a huge mansion and drive a Lamborghini,...

Saviour Balzan

Could there be a “revival” of the printed newspaper? A newspaper that comes with a smell and offers that same sensation of paper with a reading...

Could there be a “revival” of the printed...

Saviour Balzan

In his first videoblog of the year, Saviour Balzan runs through what the 2018 could, and should hold for the country, from the need to seriously address...

In his first videoblog of the year, Saviour Balzan runs...

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Saviour Balzan

What better occasion than the end of a momentous year (momentous for all the wrong reasons), to ensure that the new one starts on a happier, more productive...

What better occasion than the end of a momentous year...

Freedom of speech is not just for Christmas

Raphael Vassallo

The murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia cannot be viewed in isolation. It was an...

The murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia cannot be viewed in...

Evarist Bartolo

We are all guilty, at some point, of telling our mother, father, son, daughter or even friend that we’re busy or we don’t have the time

We are all guilty, at some point, of telling our mother,...

Extension of contract means an increase in payment

Malcolm Mifsud

The Court of Appeal ruled that even though there is a fixed price contract, if...

The Court of Appeal ruled that even though there is a fixed...

It’s time to make children a priority again

Josanne Cassar

The problem with this all-encompassing, all-forgiving attitude which absolves...

The problem with this all-encompassing, all-forgiving...

Carmel Vassallo

Having failed to convince their own constituency of the wisdom of their ways, some of our fellow citizens have taken to trying to sell their view of the world...

Having failed to convince their own constituency of the...