Dissecting Malta’s literacy problem

Evarist Bartolo

In the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) carried out among 10-year-old students in 2011, Malta ranked 35th of 45 participating countries.

Religion has no place in the Constitution

Raphael Vassallo

Now that the Church has lost its battle to retain supreme legal jurisdiction over marriage in Malta, it may not even be particularly interested in retaining a concordat which has...

Matthew Vella

Increasing libel damages would cripple the mainstream media, and strengthen the colluding party media and unofficial voices.

Increasing libel damages would cripple the mainstream...

Saviour Balzan

Carm Mifsud Bonnici’s attempt to interpret the motion as a personal attack on him, clearly backfired.

Carm Mifsud Bonnici’s attempt to interpret the motion as...

James Debono

The jury system is not the best way to judge racially motivated crimes in Malta.

The jury system is not the best way to judge racially...

Children with a disability let down at school

Evarist Bartolo

As the school year is coming to a close, 39 children with a disability...

As the school year is coming to a close, 39 children with a...

Claudine Cassar

Honourable Debono, you are not the be all and end all of this House,” said acting Speaker Censu Galea after Franco Debono threw another tantrum in parliament...

Honourable Debono, you are not the be all and end all of...

Be a prime minister for a day… u hallina!

Saviour Balzan

We have just got to know that the Secretary General of the Nationalist Party...

We have just got to know that the Secretary General of the...

The two motions tabled by the Labour Party against Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici and Malta’s Permanent Representative to the EU Richard Cachia...

The two motions tabled by the Labour Party against Home...

Both sides are so busy concerning themselves with the events of five decades ago that they appear to have forgotten we are now in 2012.

Both sides are so busy concerning themselves with the...

Jonathan, Charlotte and why the world has finally gone to the dogs

Raphael Vassallo

Thank heavens for Youtube. Up until a few days ago, politically-inclined...

Thank heavens for Youtube. Up until a few days ago,...

Evarist Bartolo

Parliament was told on Tuesday evening that out of 6,966 persons unemployed at the end of March 2012 there were 5,771 (85%) who did not even have an...

Parliament was told on Tuesday evening that out of 6,966...