There is something distinctly Maltese about having to debate whether a development that can remain in place for five years should be considered temporary. The Planning…
You do not need to be a civil engineer to understand that excavating above an underground cistern with heavy machinery could end badly. Yet in Tarxien,…
Malta’s tax authorities are owed almost €1.2 billion by individuals and companies. Yet only €412.9 million is considered recoverable. These figures, brought to light through parliamentary…
Malta does not merely have an education problem. It has a thinking problem. And sooner or later, the two become everybody’s problem. Scroll through Facebook on…
Malta’s planning appeals system has long suffered from an absurdity: a permit can be challenged in law while the building it authorises continues to rise. By…
Alex Borg is willing to sign a memorandum committing the government and Opposition to a long-term mass-transport project. Politically, it is an easy offer for the…
A criminal trial depends on a simple promise: the accused will be judged on the evidence, by people capable of considering it impartially. In the trial…
There is a revealing contradiction in Malta’s political landscape. Labour and the Nationalist Party are virtually neck and neck in voting intentions, yet among voters aged…
Artificial intelligence has just given us another reason to reconsider how much autonomy we are prepared to hand over to machines. Not because a computer has…
The administration of justice depends on more than the absence of actual bias. It also depends on public confidence that cases are heard by judges and…
There is a difficult question at the heart of domestic violence proceedings: when a complainant asks for a case to be dropped, should the justice system…
