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Planning reform on the horizon, illegal buildings on the skyline | Patrick Calleja

Patrick Calleja

In an interview to the press last week, Abela admitted that the amended legislation has been long in the making but will be announced imminently. What reforms are planned? Will...

The crucial message being conveyed by young athletes about mental health

Josanne Cassar

I am fascinated and absorbed by these stories of athletes who have crushing setbacks in their career, but recognise they have a problem which will not go away without professional...

Michael Falzon

The idea of ODZ permits needing parliamentary approval is beyond the comprehension by any sane person

The idea of ODZ permits needing parliamentary approval is...

Saviour Balzan

For years now, we have set out new fiscal policies, not based on the wisdom of what is best for the country but what will sustain one’s appeal at the...

For years now, we have set out new fiscal policies, not...

Josanne Cassar

In too many places, we are paying more money for mediocre food and abysmal treatment

In too many places, we are paying more money for mediocre...

Open letter to Ian Borg on the Marsaskala marina | Marianne Theuma

The Marsaskala marina is not just about swimming, and having ice-cream!

The Marsaskala marina is not just about swimming, and...

Cyrus Engerer

We must ensure all paediatric cancer patients have access to the best medical care possible, and give them all the tools possible to win over the illness |...

We must ensure all paediatric cancer patients have access...

Raphael Vassallo

Once again, ‘geological and technical studies’ that were supposed to have been concluded over a year ago, have never actually been finalized

Once again, ‘geological and technical studies’...

Saving lives one baby at a time | Miriam Sciberras

I too am a woman, but I do not exist only as myself. I do not decide to do only...

I too am a woman, but I do not exist only as myself. I do...

Peter Agius

Coming to think of it, forcing a green encroachment into the concrete and brick zones is possibly the most feasible way to fight back against what most of us...

Coming to think of it, forcing a green encroachment into...

Raphael Vassallo

So tell you what: how about we all choose another strategy instead… and...

So tell you what: how about we all choose another strategy...

Michael Falzon

Where does this leave the Whistleblowers Act? Just as I predicted, it has turned out to be a piece of useless legislation that does not justify the political...

Where does this leave the Whistleblowers Act? Just as I...

Josanne Cassar

Josanne Cassar | While discipline, sacrifice and mental strength are essential at this level of elite sports, it is becoming clearer that it has to be...

Josanne Cassar | While discipline, sacrifice and...

Oh look... a request to ban the publication of a book

Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan | The heavy hand of insisting that every book seller in...

Saviour Balzan | The heavy hand of insisting that...

Students for choice: we support decriminalisation of abortion in Malta

Given the hundreds of abortions happening in Malta each year, it makes no sense at all for students to become doctors without being properly informed when it...

Given the hundreds of abortions happening in Malta each...

CFS and FM patients: their rights and needs

Alex Agius Saliba

To help patients suffering with CFS and Fibromyalgia, the work must be...

To help patients suffering with CFS and Fibromyalgia, the...

‘Be the change?’ You can start by paying your taxes…

Raphael Vassallo

Where is the ‘change’, anyway? And why should ‘we’ be...

Where is the ‘change’, anyway? And why should...

Things are not always what they seem | Kurt Borg

Our lives are continually bombarded by images and catchphrases meant to...

Our lives are continually bombarded by images and...

‘The environment’ is about more than just ‘trees on roundabouts’, you know…

Raphael Vassallo

And this is why I suspect that no serious environmentalist could possibly have been consulted, in the drawing up of these proposals

And this is why I suspect that no serious environmentalist...

Michael Falzon

Upsetting once again the rental market by new forms of discriminatory government interference is a disservice Schembri – who holds university degrees in...

Upsetting once again the rental market by new forms of...