Anticipation and accountability: What Maltese citizens should expect from Budget 2025 | Ivan J. Bartolo
Let’s delve into some of the areas where Maltese citizens will expect and indeed deserve clear and impactful solutions
Villa Rosa: When local plans are not cast in stone
James Debono
For the past years, the Labour government has told local communities faced with overdevelopment that it can’t change local plans for their benefit. So why does the...
An industry raising its own standards | Charlon Gouder

Malta’s tuna industry has demonstrated its commitment to environmental...

Malta’s tuna industry has demonstrated its commitment...

No, it’s not like any other job | Clayton Bartolo, Byron Camilleri

Eventually, we will be widening the initiative’s purview to include...

Eventually, we will be widening the initiative’s...

Because they deserve it | Byron Camilleri

We, on our part, shall remain committed to investing in the police force to...

We, on our part, shall remain committed to investing in the...

Malta has a ‘Masterplan for Traffic’? Sure could have fooled me…
Raphael Vassallo

For a second, I thought (not for the first time) that our Finance Minister may actually have been referring to another country, altogether… when he...

For a second, I thought (not for the first time) that our...

Dangerous times
Michael Falzon

Will Iran join the war if the Israeli army enters Gaza? Iran has a ‘de facto’ border with Israel via the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Does...

Will Iran join the war if the Israeli army enters...

Can Manuel Delia stop lying, just for once?
Raphael Vassallo

As for myself, however: I’m going to (try to) revert to my earlier...

As for myself, however: I’m going to (try to) revert...

In the pursuit of stability
Stephanie Fabri / JP Fabri

At first glance, this is definitely a budget with a heart and one which pursues stability. The main challenge is how to address the longer-term vision of...

At first glance, this is definitely a budget with a heart...

Budgetary matters
Stephanie Fabri / JP Fabri

Whilst the government announces various policies, schemes, and strategies during the year, the budget is still seen as a central economic policy document which...

Whilst the government announces various policies, schemes,...

Banning e-scooters: An admission of failure | Steve Zammit Lupi

It baffles me how in four years the most popular areas did not have a single...

It baffles me how in four years the most popular areas did...

Tone deaf with a complete lack of self-awareness
Josanne Cassar

Her supporters might say, but so what if she did? So many women go under the...

Her supporters might say, but so what if she did? So many...

When state institutions are not up to standard | Mark Said

It is time to reinstall and implement the true principles of meritocracy within...

It is time to reinstall and implement the true principles...

A celebration of readers | Daniel Xerri

Given the peculiar nature of many of the collective nouns found in English, perhaps it would not be entirely amiss if we borrow from the celebratory nature...

Given the peculiar nature of many of the collective nouns...

That’s a whole new definition of ‘Pensions Time Bomb’…
Raphael Vassallo

Let’s face it, folks… Clyde Caruana is not exactly the first...

Let’s face it, folks… Clyde Caruana is not...

Newsflash: David Casa discovers that his own medicine doesn’t taste all that great, after all…
Raphael Vassallo

David Casa cannot so easily distance himself from the (entirely predictable) consequences of his own actions

David Casa cannot so easily distance himself from the...

Mistreating migrants
Michael Falzon

Treating migrants shoddily will neither honour Malta nor help to avoid - let alone solve -the problems created by the migration phenomenon across the...

Treating migrants shoddily will neither honour Malta nor...

Our obsession with speed is killing us
Josanne Cassar

Slowing down saves lives and don’t worry, you will still get to your destination... If you are always late and forever rushing then it’s your time...

Slowing down saves lives and don’t worry, you will...

George Farrugia
Saviour Balzan

All the big talk in 2013 by the Labour administration about addressing these misdemeanours was a whole load of claptrap. Some of the individuals in the oil...

All the big talk in 2013 by the Labour administration about...

Reforming the personal assistance scheme for persons with a disability
Julia Farrugia

In our daily contact with persons with a disabililty and their parents and guardians, we are often reminded of the dilemma facing them when a surviving parent...

In our daily contact with persons with a disabililty and...