Josanne Cassar | Opinion column

If we want people to respect our country, we have to respect it first

May 17, 2026 | No comments

My opening line is going to sound like one of those standard ‘why did the chicken cross the road?’ jokes.

Tell me what you stand for

May 11, 2026 | No comments

Two weeks into this election campaign and I’ve already given up trying to keep count of all the proposals promising cash, free this and free that, to practically every sector.

It’s raining…cash and extravagance

May 3, 2026 | No comments

Did Malta strike oil while no-one was looking?

No way to run an election campaign

April 28, 2026 | No comments

From the above headlines, it seems the man doth protest too much.

Toxic, trauma and narcissist …enough of these buzzwords please

April 20, 2026 | No comments

For a long time I have noticed a trend which is now verging on the ridiculous: the over-use of certain words which has rendered them almost meaningless.

How we know an election is imminent: let me count the ways

April 14, 2026 | No comments

It’s always the new billboards which are the first to give it away.

We rarely used to see homeless people, so what happened?

April 5, 2026 | No comments

Today the majority of us will sit down to to a delicious Easter lunch at tables groaning with food, surrounded by family and friends, in our warm comfortable homes, or else at a restaurant because we can afford to spend a couple of hundred Euro to eat out.

What everyone with elderly parents should know

March 31, 2026 | No comments

It comes unexpectedly that day when the roles are reversed and you find yourself the adult and it is your parent/s who need to be taken care of in the same way they took care of you as a child. The circle of life often creeps up on you without warning, leaving you reeling not only at the realisation of their inevitable mortality but of yours as well.

Who wants to be a millionaire?

March 24, 2026 | No comments

A report in Malta Today told us this week that at least 10% of households in Malta can be classified as millionaires, according to the latest results of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey carried out by the Central Bank.

What kind of father tries to kill his own children?

March 18, 2026 | No comments

At 10pm in the evening of 7 March, while many of us were enjoying our Saturday evening, a little 10-year-old girl ran out on the Coast Road, asking people for help.