Road safety should start with data analysis
It is useless having all the education campaigns of this world and the best enforcement possible if politicians and their underlings in public authority decide to circumvent the...
Road rage rules OK
Michael Falzon
In Malta, the constant unlimited increase in cars on our roads has led to many drivers getting impatient while driving in a slow-moving column – something that one can...
The stark reality
Miriam Dalli

Our conscious price stability policy decision comes with a hefty cost to public coffers but the stark reality is that it would have been much more costly for...

Our conscious price stability policy decision comes with a...

The nightmares when dealing with supply chains in the health sector | Denise Borg Manche

All stakeholders can work together towards improving the processes and taking informed decisions to ultimately bring the medication to the patient at the right...

All stakeholders can work together towards improving the...

You don’t have to be a Royalist to be touched by the Queen’s death
Josanne Cassar

Maybe it’s a generational thing, but I find that there are far too many people who lack any respect and are desperately trying to be comedians on...

Maybe it’s a generational thing, but I find that...

Orgy and anarchy
Saviour Balzan

Elderly people, normal people not bemused with fireworks and animals are traumatised by the celebration of noise

Elderly people, normal people not bemused with fireworks...

Fixing a broken planning system

Democracy may be imperfect, but it remains the best system we have - and planning should not be an exception

Democracy may be imperfect, but it remains the best system...

For a tender to be cancelled serious irregularities must be proven
Malcolm Mifsud

The fact that the contracting authority did not follow anti-competition...

The fact that the contracting authority did not follow...

‘The Greater Flamingo Massacre’… again
Raphael Vassallo

So not only did government fling that dreaded ‘door’ wide open, in...

So not only did government fling that dreaded...

The coexistence we need
Cyrus Engerer

If we have green alternatives, should we not cater for them in the ways that we cater for other vehicles?

If we have green alternatives, should we not cater for them...

A maze of government-owned bodies
Michael Falzon

To my mind, the Criminal Code reserves its harshest punishments to public officers, as there is a specific reference to bribery that applies only in their case

To my mind, the Criminal Code reserves its harshest...

A bankrupt planning system

It is shocking to learn that the SCH has now dropped objections to a three-storey extension to a baroque palazzo and the construction of a swimming pool on the...

It is shocking to learn that the SCH has now dropped...

From ‘more green spaces’… to ‘war on green spaces’
Raphael Vassallo

The same Labour government that promised us a ‘green reclamation’...

The same Labour government that promised us a ‘green...

Facing the stark truth
Saviour Balzan

Government’s decision to absorb all the energy increases and retain price stability on fuels by reducing government expenditure elsewhere, is perhaps...

Government’s decision to absorb all the energy...

What’s God got to do with it?
Josanne Cassar

Integrity should be shown through actions rather than words, as that will be the only way to salvage the little faith we have left

Integrity should be shown through actions rather than...

Individuals cannot force government to issue property on tender
Malcolm Mifsud

Although individuals may have property adjacent to government land, they do not...

Although individuals may have property adjacent to...

This is not ‘business as usual’

Government would be wise to ditch the mantra that it’s ‘business as usual’

Government would be wise to ditch the mantra that...

Slavish support for local MP got me a job. Did the pencil-pushing suckers at Tal-Qroqq get the memo?

The Skinny | No 154 – We Don’t Need No Education, Apparently

The Skinny | No 154 – We Don’t Need No...

Republican Malta is still not colonially free | Charles Xuereb

While the national colours (red and white) need a two-thirds majority to be...

While the national colours (red and white) need a...

At this rate, we may as well just demolish Ggantija altogether
Raphael Vassallo

If the Planning Authority says ‘yes’ to a ‘three-storey,...

If the Planning Authority says ‘yes’ to a...