Josanne Cassar | Opinion column

For someone to buy your vote, you have to be willing to sell it

May 27, 2024 | 0 Comments

In February 2022, just before the general elections which were held a month later, PM Robert Abela made an electoral promise that if the Labour Government were to be re-elected, full-time students who continue to study at post-secondary level, would be receiving a subsidy of €500 a year over a period of three years.

To co-ed or not to co-ed, that is the question

May 22, 2024 | 0 Comments

Two Church schools which have been a stalwart for boys’ only education for generations, De La Salle college and Stella Maris college are holding consultation meetings about the possibility of introducing co-education starting from Year 1 students in the 2025/26 scholastic year.

Vitals inquiry: How did we get to this point?

May 14, 2024 | 0 Comments

A lot has already been written and said about the conclusion of the Vitals inquiry and the 19 people who are being accused of a number of criminal charges.

Empty seats, student apathy and some ridiculous candidates – welcome to the MEP elections

May 6, 2024 | 0 Comments

In most countries, student activism is a healthy barometer of how the young generation feels about current events.

The connection between crime and drug addiction

April 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

During a cursory look at the headlines this week, I noticed (not for the first time) that quite a number of news reports were linked to drugs.

Calculating the worth of a housewife

April 23, 2024 | 0 Comments

The shocking story of a woman who was left with a piece of gauze in her abdomen following a hernia operation, which caused her endless physical pain and emotional distress when her complaints were dismissed, was bad enough in itself.

Saying “we’re sorry for the inconvenience”, just won’t cut it

April 15, 2024 | 0 Comments

Has everyone fully recovered yet from Wednesday’s nightmare traffic?

Sounding the death knell for small businesses

April 9, 2024 | 0 Comments

For some mysterious reason, everyone and their brother seems to think that the best business venture at the moment is to open a supermarket.

Attempting to measure happiness

April 2, 2024 | 0 Comments

The World Happiness Report has just concluded that young Maltese people under 30 are the “unhappiest in Europe”.

Homelessness used to be unheard of …until now

March 26, 2024 | 0 Comments

It is a twisted kind of irony that a country which has been over-run by the senseless, out of control construction of a multitude of apartments, where even a tiny patch of land is somehow converted into a pencil-thin airless block of flats, should now be facing a homeless crisis.