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The story of energy policy in Malta is one of incompetence, mismanagement, of allegations of graft, corruption and of smoking guns. It is a story of the infamous ‘oil scandal’ and of changes in laws to favour the oil agents’ lobby during the Nationalist’s governments’ reign
“I’m barely getting any sleep…”. I guess I’d complain of insomnia, too, were a government agency to suddenly appear on my doorstep waving a piece of paper, telling me a road will be passing through my fields, through my water reservoir, through my peace of mind; through my life. This, for some families in Qormi/Mrieħel, was Christmas 2020 – if you want, a sort of sick cherry on the particularly dark cake that was last year. Instead of looking forward to some rest after another year of toil, these farmers have spent the festive season looking for ways to defend their patch – lit...
Anthony Manduca pays tribute to some of the prominent Maltese people who died this year. Cardinal Prospero Grech, died on December 30, 2019, aged 94. The Augustinian scholar who became the second cardinal in Maltese history was one of 22 cardinals appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in February 2012. Once described as “possibly the most intelligent man alive” by English priest Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in an article in the Catholic Herald, Cardinal Grech served as a professor at the Augustine Institute in Rome. In 1970, he co-founded the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum attached to the L...
It’s been a tough year. That’s a perfect blanket phrase which thousands of us, irrespective of our backgrounds or life choices, will identify with. Most of us are looking forward to the day when we’ll be free of restrictions, anxieties, maybe even responsibilities. Others have had it even worse: from victims of domestic violence to the homeless, the unemployed and the unemployed-to-be. The year of COVID-19 has been tragic under a number of aspects, more so when it comes to the lost virtue of social solidarity: we read of the elderly passing away daily, now as a mere statistic which does...