On this day we celebrate one of the most important revolutions in Maltese history. After years of suffering, the Maltese citizens exploded and rioted against the government, who had kept their wages below what was required to handle the cost of living. The riots...
Opinion
Dead Turtle on our Doorstep
By now, everyone must have seen the horrific video of a plastic drinking straw being pulled from a turtle’s nostril. In the video the turtle is bleeding, sniffing, clearly distressed and in pain. It was this video which inspired the worldwide movement to ban plastic...
Maltese Press Freedom: Declined?
UNESCO declared May 3rd as World Press Freedom Day with the aim of increasing awareness about how fundamental the freedom of the press is to a democratic society. In the last decade alone, over 800 journalists have been killed worldwide in an attempt to silence...
Why Students Need to be Involved in the Abortion Discourse
The discourse about abortion has been receiving more and more coverage within the past few years, especially due to the growing number of organisations that are calling for reforms to the archaic and restrictive local laws which outlaw abortion in all cases....
Why Students Need to be Involved in the Abortion Discourse
The discourse about abortion has been receiving more and more coverage within the past few years, especially due to the growing number of organisations that are calling for reforms to the archaic and restrictive local laws which outlaw abortion in all cases....
A Mole in Mater Dei
On 23rd March 2021, news broke out that Malta’s Minister of Education, Justyne Caruana, was hospitalized at Mater Dei Hospital. In the preceding days, she had been caught up in a debacle over the payment of a foreign footballer to reform sports curricula in government...
Spain did it, why can’t Malta legalise euthanasia?
Last week Spain, a pre-dominantly Catholic country, became the fourth country in Europe to legalise euthanasia. This new law is set to take effect next June and will allow adults with serious and incurable diseases to choose to end their own life. Spanish Prime...