Looks like organised crime
Michael Falzon
This was certainly an organised system and as the president of the Medical Association of Malta put it, the scheme does look like being an organised crime on an unprecedented scale
How to steal from the State
Saviour Balzan
If we want people to feel guilty if they steal from the State, we have to have a political class that is up there in the morality quotient. We are far from this. We have to have...
Shoot at a car? Uproar – Rape and murder? No comment
Raphael Vassallo

In a country which howled in indignation when the police took a week to arrest...

In a country which howled in indignation when the police...

We’ve got a leak
Josanne Cassar

If you are going to leak something so important, it has to be unaltered and unedited so that the public can make up its own mind. You do not get to pick and...

If you are going to leak something so important, it has to...

Yet another police f*** up
Saviour Balzan

Sorry to sabotage the Christmas spirit but I have to say that today’s front-page story returns to haunt our readers because the police have returned to...

Sorry to sabotage the Christmas spirit but I have to say...

Sheehan, Kamara and the threshold of disgust
James Debono

The content of an inquiry report on the death of Mamadou Kamara should create...

The content of an inquiry report on the death of Mamadou...

May the Force be reformed…
Raphael Vassallo

The outcome of the inquiry into the Sheehan shooting case was just another of those easily predictable things

The outcome of the inquiry into the Sheehan shooting case...

Lima will determine Paris climate outcome
Leo Brincat

The fact that the EU leaders have endorsed the Commission’s proposal to...

The fact that the EU leaders have endorsed the...

A concept that has become a reality
Evarist Bartolo

The NSS project started back in 2012 with an intake of around 40 first year students in a couple of borrowed classrooms at St Benedict’s College in Kirkop

The NSS project started back in 2012 with an intake of...

Who’s next?
Frank Psaila

Things got out of hand, and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has only himself to blame. The question is: Who’s next?

Things got out of hand, and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat...

A government with no ears
Ryan Callus

By this way of doing things, the Government has made a mockery out of the public consultation process 

By this way of doing things, the Government has made a...

Classism of 2014
Raphael Vassallo

In Malta, politicians stolidly refuse to step down even when they are themselves the subject of criminal inquiries into allegations of attempting to cover up a...

In Malta, politicians stolidly refuse to step down even...

That’s no way to treat journalists, Simon
Josanne Cassar

Simon Busuttil’s new confrontational attitude was completely misplaced at...

Simon Busuttil’s new confrontational attitude was...

No ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’, Mallia must go
James Debono

Mallia cannot remain responsible for the police force while the same police...

Mallia cannot remain responsible for the police force while...

Joseph Muscat: From PM to CEO?
Kevin-James Fenech

If our Prime Minister wants to run government more like a business he first needs to facilitate a new Constitution and herald a new way of governing. 

If our Prime Minister wants to run government more like a...

Reappraising Giorgio
Henry Frendo

Gorg Borg Olivier’s legacy was as much one of an independent statehood as of an internal freedom where the separation of powers functioned, law and order...

Gorg Borg Olivier’s legacy was as much one of an...

Talk about a 'miscarriage of justice'...
Raphael Vassallo

There is something singularly absurd about a prosecution and conviction for a crime that not only didn’t happen, but – much more significantly...

There is something singularly absurd about a prosecution...

Our economic plan is on track
Evarist Bartolo

The number of employees in the private sector has increased but there are certain interesting factors that give a clearer dimension to this figure. 

The number of employees in the private sector has increased...

Government’s in freefall, and Muscat has no guts to stop it
Frank Psaila

The events of the past days have undoubtedly tarnished the government’s...

The events of the past days have undoubtedly tarnished the...

For want of a horseshoe nail
Michael Falzon

The time has come for a national independent commission on the Police Force, on the way it works and how it assumes responsibilities from existing laws, and to...

The time has come for a national independent commission on...