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Should we care about dates?

Sunday, 15 September 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Does anyone care that today is the 15th of September: a date un-noted, a day with no historic significance? The date stands, perfectly poised, between September 8 and 21 - the two days when we glory...

Climate Justice: our role

Sunday, 15 September 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The current state of the developing climate emergency is the cumulative effect of years of carbon emissions. We continuously add to this accumulated impact to the extent that projections by the...

Paradise Lost

Saturday, 14 September 2019, 09:56 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Joseph Muscat is lucky that by now there are still enough Maltese people who admire our island and what it represents and hold memories in their mind of a place from where they were able to look ahead...

Taking care of our heritage

Friday, 13 September 2019, 09:21 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

There are various entities within the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government which are doing their utmost to protect our heritage. In my previous articles I wrote at length about the...

Limbo

Thursday, 12 September 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant MEP

Those families which in recent months had their homes demolished while a developer was knocking down houses adjacent to theirs, have ended up in limbo. What’s going to happen to them? The...

Next stop, Birżebbuġa

Tuesday, 10 September 2019, 09:09 Last update: about 6 years ago Tara Cassar

The seaside town of Birżebbuġa at the Southern tip of Malta seems to be set for the same transformation that hit coastal towns all over the island over the past decades, as traditional...

Bother about books

Monday, 9 September 2019, 07:46 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant MEP

I enjoyed the controversy that arose when according to first reports, a quantity of antique books were about to be rubbished. My understanding had been that in this country, books were no longer given...

Constitutional imperfections

Sunday, 8 September 2019, 10:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I share Noel Grima’s approach of comparing unfolding events in the UK and Italy. It is useful to public debate in Malta, as it has been somewhat scant. Our historical dependence on the UK...

The climate emergency

Sunday, 8 September 2019, 10:37 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Declaring a climate emergency is a positive step: recognising that the current state of the climate creates an emergency situation signifies that we are aware that time is running out. The United...

Are we racist?

Sunday, 8 September 2019, 10:34 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

Given the sad events of the past decade or so, during which Malta has had to cope with the non-stop influx of illegal immigrants and refugees, there is every reason to believe that a huge chunk...

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