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Mercenary Today

Sunday, 3 November 2019, 10:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

If politics – politics in a democracy – were simple, humans would be re-admitted as tenants in the Garden of Eden. Instead, ever since that mythical eviction, things have always been...

Eco-schools programme: seeding the future

Sunday, 3 November 2019, 10:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The environmental education of our younger generation is the most rewarding investment and the eco-schools programme run, by local environmental NGO Nature Trust, is one such fruitful investment....

Killing it softly

Sunday, 3 November 2019, 10:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

I hasten to explain my choice for main topic to the non-sporting among my readers. Football is not just a sport like any other most people on earth enjoy. The football World Cup every four years is a...

All gas and clappers

Sunday, 3 November 2019, 09:19 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

The Romans are long gone from our island. All our conquerors, colonisers and other misguided overlords, have been consigned to the scrapheap of history. We rarely tried getting rid of them; in fact we...

Why tactical voting could change the course of history

Sunday, 3 November 2019, 08:35 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

At first glance, the decision of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and, for once, a majority in the House of Commons to go for an election on 12 December was rather inexplicable. Elections are...

Stop the bullying

Saturday, 2 November 2019, 09:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

To bully a child is extremely bad and harmful.  The damage and pain can last a lifetime unless properly dealt with.  The same too for women who are bullied by aggressive or narcissistic...

Non-voters, nomads and heretics

Friday, 1 November 2019, 11:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Michael Briguglio

Around 100,000 registered voters did not vote in this year’s European parliamentary elections.  They represent 27.3 per cent of the vote, or the highest ever abstention rate since the...

Another electoral promise fulfilled

Friday, 1 November 2019, 09:20 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Through the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government, this Government is continuously introducing schemes and measures to help those who have been promoting and also keeping alive, most of...

Stability

Thursday, 31 October 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant MEP

It is in this country’s interest for Europe to be stable, at peace and enjoying economic growth. There is little we can do, on our own, to reach such aims. Yet it always pays to back those...

And then there were none

Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 11:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

31 men and eight women had their hopes and dreams taken away from them last week— their lifeless bodies found in the back of a lorry in Grays, Essex, frozen. The 25-year-old driver, Maurice...

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