Supermarket politics and national amnesia

Jurgen Balzan

Malta’s political parties have occupied the State and other institutions for far too long: can things ever change? In democracies the people can send the parties packing,...

Cartoon: 11 November 2015

Sandro Chetcuti is in shoppers' paradise...

Saviour Balzan

The only people paying dearly for the Gaffarena and Mater Dei scandals are those who had nothing to do with the scandals – the ones who pay their taxes...

The only people paying dearly for the Gaffarena and Mater...

Josanne Cassar

It is about time more of us demand higher standards from those who offer some kind of service, and actively seek out those who are properly qualified in what...

It is about time more of us demand higher standards from...

Michelle Muscat will be swimming the Gozo Channel for charity...

Michelle Muscat will be swimming the Gozo Channel for...

Subsidiaries awarded by authorities are not economic activities in terms of competition rules

Malcolm Mifsud

The Competition and Consumer Appeal Tribunal presided by Mr Justice Mark Chetcuti held in a judgement on 19 May, 2015 that subsidiaries given by public...

The Competition and Consumer Appeal Tribunal presided by Mr...

Labour backbencher Marlene Farrugia's opposition to the Zonqor project has also seen her partner Godfrey Farrugia, the Labour whip, join her.

Labour backbencher Marlene Farrugia's opposition to the...

As is only to be expected, the results have already been spun into political arguments by either side.

As is only to be expected, the results have already been...

Raphael Vassallo

Not content with performing vanishing tricks on such things as ‘accountability’, ‘political responsibility’ and so on… the...

Not content with performing vanishing tricks on such things...

I don’t want to live in a Dubai in the Mediterranean

Jurgen Balzan

A few months ago Zonqor Point in Marsaskala was inadequate for a hotel but it...

A few months ago Zonqor Point in Marsaskala was inadequate...

Kevin-James Fenech

I cringe with embarrassment as I watch Sepp Blatter declare to the rest of world that he wants to clean things up at FIFA, as if he wasn’t the...

I cringe with embarrassment as I watch Sepp Blatter...

Evarist Bartolo

Malta’s labour market would further benefit from a re-birth of a fresh, client-friendly national employment specialist service agency remodelled from the...

Malta’s labour market would further benefit from a...

James Debono

If the Environment Minister believes that construction of a campus in a natural park is an example of sustainable development, he is clearly not fit for...

If the Environment Minister believes that construction of a...

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Saviour Balzan

To undermine this critical piece of legislation would be a grave disservice to a justice system that had in the past always struggled when it came to heavily...

To undermine this critical piece of legislation would be a...

At a crossroad, the PN needs a strong dose of confidence

Frank Psaila

Maybe what the Nationalist Party truly needs right now, more than anything...

Maybe what the Nationalist Party truly needs right now,...

Raphael Vassallo

Did we send out posses of police and MTA officials to evict the outlaws? Heck, no. We actually connected the entire village to the grid… thus indirectly...

Did we send out posses of police and MTA officials to evict...

Saviour Balzan

Just because construction magnates blossom and bloom, it does not mean that we are better off as a nation. It just means that the magnates have fatter bank...

Just because construction magnates blossom and bloom, it...

Josanne Cassar

Whether out of spite (as she is often accused of) or out of genuine love for the environment, Marlene Farrugia has stuck her neck out and has openly...

Whether out of spite (as she is often accused of) or...

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna