What women want
Josanne Cassar
Rather than blaming external factors, I sometimes wonder, when listening to women talk, whether they are not giving permission to themselves to just be what they want to be.
Derogate? What's that?
Saviour Balzan
The truth is that Malta’s accession to the European Union depended on addressing the Birds directive and Habitats directive issues
Letters: 28 September 2014
Spring hunting referendum: No longer about the birds

MaltaToday, The Times of Malta and the Malta Independent call for abolition of...

MaltaToday, The Times of Malta and the Malta Independent...

The shabbiness of it all
Josanne Cassar

I often daydream of being an environmental warden for just one day, with the authority to impose the heftiest of fines.

I often daydream of being an environmental warden for just...

Court allows liquidation of a company
Malcolm Mifsud

The First Hall of the Civil Court on 15 September, 2014 appointed a liquidator to prepare and register the liquidation of MIMS Supplies Limited. 

The First Hall of the Civil Court on 15 September, 2014...

Odious hunters and their right to protest
James Debono

The right to protest is sacrosanct. Beating journalists and birdwatchers is not.

The right to protest is sacrosanct. Beating journalists and...

The hunting lobby has lost all credibility

The tide of popular feeling has now decidedly turned against the hunters’...

The tide of popular feeling has now decidedly turned...

Bring on the referendum
Raphael Vassallo

It was Labour which started the strategy, in 1996, when George Vella signed a shabby pre-electoral contract with the hunters. But what 'Labour started'...

It was Labour which started the strategy, in 1996, when...

Cartoon: 24th September 2014

Hunters' lobby CEO Lino Farrugia says he understands the frustration of the hunters that organised an illegal protest...

Hunters' lobby CEO Lino Farrugia says he understands...

Diversity, liberty and solidarity
John Baldacchino

To be Maltese or Scottish, British or European, is a consequence and not the cause of being a willing participant in a democracy that sustains diversity,...

To be Maltese or Scottish, British or European, is a...

Need to plan ahead in financial services sector
Evarist Bartolo

Two main issues are lack of qualifications and lack of experience. We must...

Two main issues are lack of qualifications and lack of...

Kicking the nostalgia habit and showing the way forward
Frank Psaila

Musing over what happened a decade ago will hardly help to solve the challenges...

Musing over what happened a decade ago will hardly help to...

Can dignified home care for the elderly become a feasible reality?
Simon Fiorini Lowell

Until the government figures out how to help the elderly at home with some...

Until the government figures out how to help the elderly at...

Fifty years young
Michael Falzon

Today there are practically no differences between the PN and Labour on Malta’s status as a valid EU member, on foreign policy, on the importance of...

Today there are practically no differences between the PN...

And a Happy Banality to you, too…
Raphael Vassallo

Traditionally, ‘independence’ has always been viewed as a good thing, yet this week we saw the same concept reviled, spat upon and humiliated, held...

Traditionally, ‘independence’ has always been...

What makes us a nation?

Even today, 50 years later, the fundamental question of what makes us a nation is not easy to answer.

Even today, 50 years later, the fundamental question of...

Cartoon: 21 September 2014

Malta celebrates its Independence from British colonial rule with a visit from a British royal, just days after Scotland voted to stay within the British Union...

Malta celebrates its Independence from British colonial...

Letters: 22nd September 2014
Fifty years on
Saviour Balzan

I discovered that politicians are replaced in office by others who turn out to be no different from their predecessors

I discovered that politicians are replaced in office by...