Enabling achievers
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
Valletta is European Capital of Culture. Reasons to celebrate?
Teodor Reljic
Looking at 2018 | What are the implications of pitching this potentially scene-changing opportunity as simply yet another ‘celebration’?
A leadership debate, or a civil war?

It is tragic that the ‘something’ in question would be a declaration of war by Nationalists against Nationalists.

It is tragic that the ‘something’ in question...

Beyond the numbers
Evarist Bartolo

Evarist Bartolo writes: We view genders as equals. The laws have changed and a lot of progress followed. Doors opened and we finally live in a situation where...

Evarist Bartolo writes: We view genders as equals. The laws...

Bishop Grech’s inconvenient truth
Frank Psaila

Frank Psaila on Gozo's drug problem: I would have expected the Police Commissioner to issue a statement taking note of what Bishop Grech said

Frank Psaila on Gozo's drug problem: I would have...

What needs to be done

Adrian Delia writes: I feel it is my duty to answer any and all questions thrown at me, however malicious their intent and spurious their content. But I admit...

Adrian Delia writes: I feel it is my duty to answer any and...

Was that a debate or a funeral?
Raphael Vassallo

Raphael Vassallo writes: The whole thing reminded me uncannily of a funeral. That ominous black backdrop clearly didn’t help much – what were they...

Raphael Vassallo writes: The whole thing reminded me...

But, come on, are you really that sick?
Josanne Cassar

The abuse of sick leave is a reality, it’s true, but it needs to be tackled head-on by dealing personally with the culprits

The abuse of sick leave is a reality, it’s true, but...

Political napalm
Saviour Balzan

For the past decade, this war of attrition has been waged against anyone whom the PN’s inner sanctum was at odds with

For the past decade, this war of attrition has been waged...

Cartoon: 27 August 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Road safety is everyone’s responsibility

Experience also shows that a combination of education and strict enforcement...

Experience also shows that a combination of education and...

[WATCH] How feelings change when targets shift
Saviour Balzan

In his latest video-blog, MediaToday managing editor Saviour Balzan speaks of...

In his latest video-blog, MediaToday managing editor...

When buyer discovers defect, he must take legal action within six months
Malcolm Mifsud

The Magistrates Court upheld a plea of prescription because the buyer of a car found out the defect well before the action was instituted

The Magistrates Court upheld a plea of prescription because...

Marking 500 years since the Reformation

Roman Catholicism regards the Reformation as the cause of an unnecessary schism. However, since the papacy was corrupt and unscriptural, the Reformation...

Roman Catholicism regards the Reformation as the cause of...

Cars do not just crash head-on for no reason
Josanne Cassar

People need to see conclusive police and traffic experts’ reports of the...

People need to see conclusive police and traffic...

A bridge too far...
Raphael Vassallo

Things we criticise or deplore today, may well become the iconic cultural reference points of the future

Things we criticise or deplore today, may well become the...

The fine line between law and business

It is to be noted, for instance, that the draft ‘Lawyers’ Act’, tabled recently, does not include outright restrictions on commercial...

It is to be noted, for instance, that the draft...

Violent delights have violent ends
Evarist Bartolo

Regulation, people-first policies and a checks-and-balances structure has been wrongly, and misleadingly, packaged as needless bureaucracy

Regulation, people-first policies and a checks-and-balances...

How to scuttle your own party
Raphael Vassallo

As has happened on so many other occasions, it is the allegation that makes the story...with the ‘non-existence’ of proof dismissed as an...

As has happened on so many other occasions, it is the...

The political media today
Michael Falzon

The tone of the editorials of the GWU papers has recently become saner and more acceptable to the general public 

The tone of the editorials of the GWU papers has recently...