National environment protest on Saturday
I will not be able to attend the National Environment protest on Saturday 27 May 2023, as I will not be in Malta. I hope that the protest will be…
An overcrowded barracoon?
Malta is the ninth most densely populated country of 235 countries/territories in the world (World Bank Report 2021): 1,384 persons per square kilometre. Only Monaco (26,523 per sq km), Gibraltar…
Discovering ourselves
Born in the early fifties, people of my generation were brought up knowing very little about our Maltese Islands. Most of our syllabi of Geography, History and Literature were about…
Dismantling the fortresses
Children are spending more time on Tik-Tok, Instagram and You Tube that in the company of their parents, In school we have two distant planets that hardly ever meet: the…
Buying, not killing
A month ago Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was sent to prison in Italy after fleeing justice for 30 years, in which period he visited many countries including Malta, Tunisia…
We are allowing thousands to be treated like slaves – Evarist Bartolo
It's time for trade unions to start protecting exploited migrant workers Last November, a number of people were brought over from India, Pakistan and Nepal to work in tourism. But,…
Malta Freeport is one of busiest ports in Europe.
The Maltese were “nothing”
We can lose control of our destiny without being invaded and occupied militarily by any of those powers who still consider us to be in their sphere of…
Time to consider rewriting Malta’s neutrality – Evarist Bartolo
His successor Ian Borg says our constitution is ‘flexible enough’ as it is. A team of experts should be set up to propose a rewrite of Malta’s constitutional neutrality, according…
Not a land flowing with milk and honey
On the 16th November 2021 I took part in the Ministerial Conference in Brussels on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East…
Polyhedron or the West vs the Rest?
The absurd, colonial, and brutal war that Russian President Putin is waging against the people of Ukraine is unacceptable whichever way you look at it. Thousands of civilians, including innocent…
