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188 women file judicial protest against health ministry to not only remove Malta’s blanket ban on abortion, but also to decriminalise and legalise the procedure

A 12-hour course on hearing impairment will be delivered online via Zoom in April, organised by Malta University Consulting Ltd. Hearing impairment occurs when

A law students organisation has called for a new standalone act regulating the legal profession, saying that recently enacted legislation is not robust enough. Għaqda Studenti Tal-Liġi launched a new policy document on Monday that examines the international regulatory framework of the legal profession, as well as rules regulating other warranted professionals. It proposes more robust legislation governing warranted legal professionals.  Bill 181, or the Lawyers Act, passed its third reading ...

Studji Kritiċi, Volume Two  2020 As I have affirmed in my first review of his first volume of his critical studies, Tarċisju Zarb is one of Malta’s most prolific poets. He is a worthy author, academician, essayist and teacher whose highly philosophical views of life reflect a very deep and almost painful preoccupation with what is actually going on in a world that is tragically succumbing to chaos. And like all poets, he is still hoping for better days, with more colourful undertones of cy...

Wealth gap driving division Dismiss Normal text size Credit:Illustration: Alan Moir It is clear that Donald Trump and his followers are deluded, unhinged and a danger to democracy. As Peter Hartcher says (‘‘Democracy is a mindset – the US is losing it’’, January 8) ‘‘the deepening bitterness, expressed in economic, race and cultural wars, is the acid eating away at American democracy’’. The gap between wealthy and poor has become more profound, as exemplified by the film Nomad...

Mark Camilleri, since 2013 the executive chairperson of the National Book Council, certainly has a way with words.  His outspokenness on social media is legendary, not least for being one of the few, if not only, critics of the same Labour government he has actively supported in 2013 and 2017. He has been active inside the party through the Senglea branch as recently as the last Labour election. But, as  one of the ‘critical-Left’ members of the Maltese political landscape, Camilleri ...

Mark Camilleri, beholder of ‘a brown Marxist ass’, is Labour’s abrasive conscience Mark Camilleri has a lot of sharp corners, but his social contribution far outstrips the inelegance of an online tiff with a criminal defence lawyer 17 December 2020, 9:08am by Matthew Vella It beggars belief as to how a foul-mouthed social media exchange could warrant instant resignation from the public service, when for years the Labour government resisted sacking the men caught operating a secret offsho...