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The tourism industry relies on an ever-increasing number of visitors to protect the overinvestment and overcapacity in many low-return tourism-related activities. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

Editorial: Worrying diagnoses and prognoses

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Letters to the editor – May 6, 2025

The protest memorial outside the law courts in Valletta. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Neville Gafà says his actions at Daphne's shrine is free speech - he is wrong

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Palestinian rescuers pull a woman from the rubble of the Manoun family home hit in an Israeli strike in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Photo: AFP

If this is a hospital

Russia’s savage bombing of the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Palm Sunday has rightly been condemned by the West. However, the reaction to a recent Israeli bombing of Gaza, including hitting a hospital, has been patchy

April 17, 2025| Ranier Fsadni
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Letters to the editor – April 17, 2025

Today’s letters by Times of Malta readers

April 17, 2025| Times of Malta
Water and aquatic ecosystems are under severe pressure. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Editorial: Making water resilience a reality

Water security is also an economic imperative, especially for a small country that depends on expensive processes to produce fresh water

April 17, 2025| Times of Malta
US President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause in late January on foreign assistance programmes, particularly those supporting vulnerable populations like LGBTQ+ communities, adolescent girls, sex workers and people who inject drugs. File Photo: AFP

US cuts threaten HIV/AIDS fight

This has serious implications for Malta and the EU

April 17, 2025| Damian Spiteri
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Letters to the editor – April 16, 2025

Today’s letters by Times of Malta readers

April 16, 2025| Times of Malta
Latnija cave is also known as 'Għar Tuta'. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Editorial: Changing our view of history

Malta deserves to have a detailed database of all its historic sites, indicating their current state and whether they are in a precarious state or not

April 16, 2025| Times of Malta
James Piscopo: One of Labour’s so-called persons of trust. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi

James Piscopo’s handsome rewards

He went from a ticketing clerk to Labour CEO, and on to head the transport and lands authorities – James Piscopo is facing a new investigation on corruption

April 16, 2025| Denis Tanti
Legality increases the availability and acceptability of drugs. Photo: Shutterstock.com

A drug-infested society

It is not enough to legalise drugs without addressing the underlying factors that contribute to drug use

April 16, 2025| Mark Said
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Letters to the editor – April 15, 2025

Today’s letters by Times of Malta readers

April 15, 2025| Times of Malta
How can long-term planning be credible when one of the most basic forecasting tools – population projections – is conspicuously absent? Photo: Shutterstock.com

Labour’s is a recycled vision

It is heartening to see Nationalist ideas and proposals finally, albeit belatedly, being adopted by the Labour administration

April 15, 2025| Leone Sciberras
Fighters loyal to the army patrol a market area in Khartoum. For nearly two years, Sudan hasbeen ravaged by a war between the regular army and the RSF, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and uprooted over 12 million more. File photo: AFP

Women of sorrow of our day

In Sudan’s and Mozambique’s brutal conflicts women and children are constantly subjected to rape and sexual violence

April 15, 2025| Charles Buttigieg
Joseph Muscat making his way into the law courts. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Editorial: Hiding in plain sight

We are seeing too many instances where justice seems to be working against the public interest

April 15, 2025| Times of Malta
There is a risk of overinvestment in microbusinesses in a small market such as Malta. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Factors for SME success

Policymakers must focus on picking up the winners in the overcrowded SME world

April 14, 2025| John Cassar White
Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper (left) face off in a screen shot from Adolescence. Photo: Netflix

Adolescence reaction: fear of boys, sex and the internet

Young people don’t need Adolescence to understand the internet... they already do

April 14, 2025| Alexandra James, Andrea Waling and Lily Moor
Almost a third of patients said they were never advised to use sunscreen by doctors. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Editorial: Taking skin cancer seriously

Incidence of skin cancer is steadily increasing

April 14, 2025| Times of Malta
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Letters to the editor – April 14, 2025

Today’s letters by Times of Malta readers

April 14, 2025| Times of Malta
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Żepp - April 14, 2025

Today's cartoon strip

April 14, 2025| Times of Malta
A Trumpian ġemel

Burlò – April 14, 2025

Today’s cartoon

April 14, 2025| Times of Malta
Voters act like sports supporters, cheering for ‘their side’ even as their rights vanish, and their futures shrink. Photo: Shutterstock.com

When money became god

Citizens’ labour, data, attention and even their despair are harvested and converted into more power for the few

April 14, 2025| Ray Azzopardi
Prime Minister Robert Abela (right) at the launch of Malta Vision 2050 on Tuesday. Photo: DOI

Editorial: May the vision be no pipedream

What matters most is genuine and determined readiness and commitment by the political forces to form a common front, not political rhetoric

April 13, 2025| Times of Malta
US President Donald Trump holding a chart showing the ‘reciprocal tariffs’ on trade between the US and other countries that were unveiled at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP

The Cultural Revolution ravaging the United States

The destruction wreaked by Trump’s stormtroopers looks like acts of senseless destruction and self-harm

April 13, 2025| Andreas Weitzer
Southampton players applaud their fans after losing their match against Spurs at the latter’s stadium in London, last Sunday. Photo: Glyn Kirk/AFP

Life’s still fun at the bottom

Financial difference between being in the English Premier League and the Championship means teams relegated from the PL will do anything to get promoted again, despite the horror seasons they endure

April 13, 2025| James Calvert
A displaced Palestinian woman and child walk past the rubble of a destroyed building at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

Ending forever wars

People must make it clear to their political and religious leaders that they have had enough of hate and bloodshed. People want peace, now. Our leaders must deliver it or go

April 13, 2025| David Marinelli
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Islanders - April 13, 2025

Today's cartoon

April 13, 2025| Times of Malta
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (second from right) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House. Photo: AFP

Navigating tariffs

While Donald Trump’s 90-day tariff pause is a much-needed de-escalation, heightened economic uncertainty remains and market volatility is expected to stay elevated as negotiations continue

April 13, 2025| Colin Attard
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Putting lipstick on a pig

Wouldn’t it make more sense to fix existing problems than to create new ones?

April 13, 2025| Anna Marie Galea
Rassemblement National parliamentary group president Marine Le Pen speaks to Rassemblement National president Jordan Bardella. File photo: AFP

Le Pen offers only division

Following Marine Le Pen’s criminal conviction the mainstream media must turn to serious analysis instead of giving pride of place to her and the far right in a tempting sensationalising coverage

April 13, 2025| Aurelien Mondon
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Letters to the editor – April 13, 2025

Today’s letters by Times of Malta readers

April 13, 2025| Times of Malta
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ZTV - April 13, 2025

Today's cartoon strip

April 13, 2025| Times of Malta
Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà. File photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Robert’s puppet

Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà's recent radio interview is ample proof of his unfitness for office

April 13, 2025| Kevin Cassar