Social security: minimising fraud risk | Mark Said
It may be that the department has limited administrative capacity to verify eligibility or detect fraudulent or corrupt behaviour
Malta’s abortion doula service
Isabel Stabile
We tell anyone who is considering an abortion they are not alone, they can call us at any time, and we will always help them, whatever happens... we provide patients with physical...
Who needs science? Everyone
Evarist Bartolo

The importance of science cannot be stressed strongly enough: Malta features low in science graduates among EU countries

The importance of science cannot be stressed strongly...

Building the electoral machine for 2018
Frank Psaila

The PN cannot go to the polls in 2018 without a well-oiled electoral machine… a huge challenge because electoral campaigns cost money

The PN cannot go to the polls in 2018 without a well-oiled...

It’s a choice we’re making…
Raphael Vassallo

Last Wednesday, the foreign ministers of the NATO countries met in Antalya, southern Turkey, to discuss strategies for dealing with Russia in the wake of the...

Last Wednesday, the foreign ministers of the NATO countries...

Plonk it here, please
Saviour Balzan

No sooner had Muscat declared his new conversion to environmentalism than he was unexpectedly but proudly celebrating the proposed building of a university...

No sooner had Muscat declared his new conversion to...

How green was my valley
Josanne Cassar

I’m finding it very difficult to hold a conversation with those who are reading from the Muscat Handbook on ‘What to Say to Those who are Against...

I’m finding it very difficult to hold a conversation...

Julian Manduca, ten years after
Saviour Balzan

What would Julian say of the state of the environment today under a Labour government? Perhaps this is the fairest question we ask ourselves today, measuring...

What would Julian say of the state of the environment today...

Saviour Balzan’s videoblog
Saviour Balzan

As opposition against development in outside development zone areas continues to increase, Saviour Balzan says Joseph Muscat should strive to find alternative...

As opposition against development in outside development...

Comparisons are odious, but sewage plants are necessary
James Debono

Better a university on outside-development zones than a sewage treatment plant?...

Better a university on outside-development zones than a...

Needed: Arts to disrupt rigid schooling
Evarist Bartolo

Culture industries contribute around 5% of GDP and employ more than 10,000 persons… it becomes clear that art isn’t an extra but an integral part...

Culture industries contribute around 5% of GDP and employ...

Just bomb it anyway…
Raphael Vassallo

‘[Migration] is not only a humanitarian emergency, but also a security crisis, since smuggling networks are linked to, and in some cases finance,...

‘[Migration] is not only a humanitarian emergency,...

An alternative site? No need, it’s ok for MEPA
Ryan Callus

The Prime Minister’s commitment to finding an alternative site cannot be...

The Prime Minister’s commitment to finding an...

The Wonderful Wizard of ODZ
Raphael Vassallo

With the simple flick of a magic wand, all that was considered awful and reprehensible when it took place under a Nationalist administration, miraculously...

With the simple flick of a magic wand, all that was...

In defence of a colleague
Saviour Balzan

What I can safely say is that the PBS newsroom under head of news Reno Bugeja is infinitely much better and more fair than it was under its previous head of...

What I can safely say is that the PBS newsroom under head...

Without active protest, our land will be given away
Josanne Cassar

It is high time to move beyond being mere keyboard activists against the...

It is high time to move beyond being mere keyboard...

Saviour Balzan’s videoblog
Saviour Balzan

Do general elections in the United Kingdom have the same effect on personal lives as Malta's general elections?

Do general elections in the United Kingdom have the same...

New Parliament, same old charade
Raphael Vassallo

It doesn’t actually matter where you house that institution, if it’s going to carry on behaving in such a myopic and spectacularly asinine way.

It doesn’t actually matter where you house that...

That last chance
Edward Mallia

During the ECJ hearings spring hunting was stopped. There were no cries of “collective punishment”; no talk on “possible legal...

During the ECJ hearings spring hunting was stopped. There...

Labour’s ‘big tent’ and the PN’s ideological identity
Frank Psaila

What the PN’s battle cry would be in 2018, is anybody’s guess...

What the PN’s battle cry would be in 2018, is...