Malta's PIRLS score: uncertain pathway in education

Therese Comodini Cachia

Therese Comodini Cahica | Unless the administration forges a way forward ensuring good standards across the board, we cannot expect our system to score highly on comparative...

How to save the Maltese language from extinction

Evarist Bartolo

While Maltese literature is doing very well and publications are relatively strong, the everyday use of the language in the digital world is minimal, and there’s little hope...

Michael Falzon

Joseph Muscat's speech marking the first 100 days included some new ideas, including: law enforcement

Joseph Muscat's speech marking the first 100 days...

Saviour Balzan

Busuttil was unrepentant till the end, together with a band of sycophants who toasted him without being able to admit that the party had suffered a humiliating...

Busuttil was unrepentant till the end, together with a band...

PN leadership race: if they knew then, what they know now

Josanne Cassar

"[The PN] desperately want to change their life in the mistaken belief...

"[The PN] desperately want to change their life in the...

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

The standards to which he tried to hold the PN in place are still there, and still in demand. It now falls to others to turn Busuttil’s worthy...

The standards to which he tried to hold the PN in place are...

Sentencing an under-aged person must be done with care

Malcolm Mifsud

The Magistrates Court held that when a youth is being sentenced, the court must...

The Magistrates Court held that when a youth is being...

'If a person such as myself wants to sell Maltese citizenship, what are my options'?

'If a person such as myself wants to sell Maltese...

The questions everyone keeps asking about our judicial system

Josanne Cassar

The intricacies of the judicial system seem to operate in a parallel universe:...

The intricacies of the judicial system seem to operate in a...

Raphael Vassallo

Following Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's commemoration of his 'first 100 days' in office, many wonder whether a healthy democracy is even possible...

Following Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's commemoration...

In a speech intended to commemmorate his first 100 days in office, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat gave a broad outline of his programme for the next five years,...

In a speech intended to commemmorate his first 100 days in...

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Evarist Bartolo

A run-through of the numerous policies introduced to Maltese youths, giving them a second chance and how the strategy has changed

A run-through of the numerous policies introduced to...

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JP Fabri

Melvic Zammit

Marsa, Azerbaijan and a leadership contest

Frank Psaila

What change will the Marsa residents' 'solidarity walk' bring about?

What change will the Marsa residents' 'solidarity...

Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca

President of the Republic Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca writes: 'It is my firm belief that we cannot only implement economic globalisation, without a parallel...

President of the Republic Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca...

Raphael Vassallo

'Let's face it: words like 'contest' or 'election' don't really do justice to the spectacle of political violence we are all...

'Let's face it: words like 'contest' or...

Michael Falzon

Many PN supporters are crying tears of despair as their party tries to find the way to the future. Angry their party has been beaten in elections twice in a...

Many PN supporters are crying tears of despair as their...

Is training women for politics positive action or patronising?

Josanne Cassar

As we are seeing with the PN leadership contest, when you have failed to...

As we are seeing with the PN leadership contest, when you...

Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan says that Adrian Delia has the gift of the gab; when and if he does win the leadership battle he would have done so on the strength of his...

Saviour Balzan says that Adrian Delia has the gift of the...