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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...

Josanne Cassar

Saviour Balzan

It’s war... but not as our grandparents knew it

Raphael Vassallo

We have, in a nutshell, been cocooned from calamity by both time and space. But...

We have, in a nutshell, been cocooned from calamity by both...

Coronavirus: How the world is reacting to a pandemic | Neville Zammit

As the world is realizing that this is not a drill, society should come to...

As the world is realizing that this is not a drill, society...

Subsidising a waste management disaster | Ralph Cassar

I’m afraid the business as usual mentality is so ingrained here that real...

I’m afraid the business as usual mentality is so...

Michael Falzon

In the current circumstances, the government should take the Opposition in its confidence and the Opposition should co-operate with government

In the current circumstances, the government should take...

Saviour Balzan

The impact of the coronavirus on people's livelihoods is of grave concern and government has to have a clear plan to address this by obliging...

The impact of the coronavirus on people's...

Raphael Vassallo

We have to stop flooding the Internet with a deluge of fake information, which – in its totality – only has the effect of hindering and undermining...

We have to stop flooding the Internet with a deluge of fake...

To flatten the curve, everyone has to co-operate

Josanne Cassar

This is a time when how it affects ‘me’ has to be replaced by how...

This is a time when how it affects ‘me’ has to...

Saviour Balzan

The virus that no one believed would hit us, has struck home, and in doing so it has changed our life and habits

The virus that no one believed would hit us, has struck...

Raphael Vassallo

This is after all a medical, not a political problem; as such it requires a medical, and not a political solution

This is after all a medical, not a political problem; as...

This is the ultimate test for today’s ‘me first’ society

Josanne Cassar

If we cannot re-discover our ability to become a helping community it will not...

If we cannot re-discover our ability to become a helping...

The gender pay gap is real. We need action

Miriam Dalli

The biggest failure of our society is treating equality as a women’s...

The biggest failure of our society is treating equality as...

Michael Falzon

People owning a dog must have it tagged but people acting as demolition and excavation contractors do not need to have a licence. This glaring anomaly has...

People owning a dog must have it tagged but people acting...

Raphael Vassallo

Does it really have to be that way? Is it so very difficult, to devise a national construction and development policy that really does place the rights of...

Does it really have to be that way? Is it so very...

Saviour Balzan

There is an orgy of development today that is unacceptable and simply geared to make more people richer to the extent that their riches are simply unjustifiable

There is an orgy of development today that is unacceptable...

The world’s oldest profession. The world’s oldest argument

Josanne Cassar

Attempts to try and make sex workers seem like some kind of empowered, feminist...

Attempts to try and make sex workers seem like some kind of...

Why the Coronavirus matters... and why Pete Buttigieg is out – for now

Matthew Bugeja

Pete Buttigieg is out of the Democratic Primaries. Was it surprising? Yes and no

Pete Buttigieg is out of the Democratic Primaries. Was it...