Enhancing animal welfare through legislation and infrastructure | Alicia Bugeja Said
By providing timely medical attention, the service significantly reduces suffering and improves the overall well-being of stray animals
Diary of a volunteer: On the front line of war
Christina Lejman
Maltese mother-of-two Christina Lejman works with local humanitarian voluntary organisation MOAS. In June, their HQ team travelled to Ukraine to visit their projects on the front...
Looking back
Saviour Balzan

If this has been a crazy year it will be worse next year

If this has been a crazy year it will be worse next year

Don’t sweat the small stuff
Josanne Cassar

In the grand scheme of things, life really is too short to live in a perpetual state of rage and anger

In the grand scheme of things, life really is too short to...

’Tis the season to go shopping
Josanne Cassar

Four ways by which retail business can face off some tough competition

Four ways by which retail business can face off some tough...

A very Maltese ‘presepju’...
Raphael Vassallo

Just take out all the fancy backdrops, and stick in a few walls of grey concrete and some steel shaft-like structures and there you have it - the Maltese...

Just take out all the fancy backdrops, and stick in a few...

Making things happen
Evarist Bartolo

Through Education Plus entrepreneurship programmes, we’re removing the rigidity of the system to offer something different to those who see the world...

Through Education Plus entrepreneurship programmes,...

To trust or not to trust
Anthony Buttigieg

We need to change the law and limit appointments of positions of trust to those directly in contact with a minister

We need to change the law and limit appointments of...

Another one bites the dust
Frank Psaila

Quite often, EU legislators are keener on regulating peoples’ lives than bettering them

Quite often, EU legislators are keener on regulating...

The nation’s conscience
Michael Falzon

Malta needed someone to say what the President said… acting as the nation’s conscience was a wise and bold decision

Malta needed someone to say what the President said…...

What do you mean ‘Does Santa exist?’
Raphael Vassallo

Those born into earlier, more fortunate generations have no such frivolous doubts and qualms

Those born into earlier, more fortunate generations have no...

We are the Beothuks
Saviour Balzan

Perhaps the Institute of Maltese Journalists, instead of the Department of Information, could serve as a registration body for recognising people who are...

Perhaps the Institute of Maltese Journalists, instead of...

The best thing about the President’s speech
Josanne Cassar

The President’s speech was a much-needed wake up call. Let’s just...

The President’s speech was a much-needed wake up...

Fake politicians and political fictions | Therese Comodini Cachia

Joseph Muscat’s vision is of ensuring the chosen few are protected while...

Joseph Muscat’s vision is of ensuring the chosen few...

Thou shalt not discriminate
Raphael Vassallo

It is actually irrelevant whether the Catholic Church feels entitled to discriminate against prospective employees on religious grounds… The State is...

It is actually irrelevant whether the Catholic Church feels...

Shouldn’t you want to work at a place which matches your ethos?
Josanne Cassar

To me it’s just simple logic that the teaching staff at Church schools...

To me it’s just simple logic that the teaching staff...

On book prizes and literary patronage
Mark Camilleri

I’m glad that the National Book Prize has become so prestigious as to serve as an effective national platform for dissent. Bring it on, let the fire...

I’m glad that the National Book Prize has become so...

The limits to integration
Carmel Vassallo

For better or for worse, we live in a system of nation states and one of the primary duties of national leaders in such a system is to protect national...

For better or for worse, we live in a system of nation...

Progress that includes everyone
Evarist Bartolo

The economic changeover which technology brought about needs to align itself with structured training and educational programmes

The economic changeover which technology brought about...

The decline of the West
Michael Falzon

Time will tell but I have the feeling that whilst the forces pulling Europe apart are strong, the opposite forces pushing it together are even stronger

Time will tell but I have the feeling that whilst the...