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The Fireworks Vendor’s Son

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Years later, as he faced the news of his failure, he was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover fireworks. From that childhood discovery, a life philosophy was...

Climate change politics at the EU

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 10:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The politics of climate change is a main topic of discussion at the meetings which Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President-designate, is currently participating in with the various...

Small island, big heart...but

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

At a time when Italo-Maltese relations were being tested to the limit over the immigration issue that Matteo Salvini, the Italian Minister for the Interior, has turned into a colossal European...

Politics of convenience

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 09:40 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Politics of personal convenience is what politicians, or the vast majority of them, practise. Politicians care little about true values, so why value politicians? The horror is that the more time...

The usefulness of the stop gap

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 08:42 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

I remember Louis Galea as president of the Students’ Representative Council and as the organizer of the March for Better Housing around 1968 (I also remember him at the Minor Seminary but that...

Come together

Saturday, 13 July 2019, 08:11 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

The pattern of dependence is clear now.  There is nothing that Dr Adrian Delia, as leader of the Nationalist Party has done alone, on his own, created or delivered.  He is like that early...

Enhancing our heritage

Friday, 12 July 2019, 08:27 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Current excavations in the Tas-Silġ site in Marsaxlokk have led to new discoveries – a site that is one of the most important archaeological sites in Malta and possibly in the Central...

Building regulations

Thursday, 11 July 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Though the move came late, the government was right to issue regulations that attempt to protect citizens from the abusive inconveniences and worse that are rampantly being inflicted on residents when...

Darkness over Dwejra

Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 08:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Tara Cassar

Last week NGOs expressed outrage at a decision of the Environment and Planning Tribunal [EPRT] to overturn the Planning Commission’s refusal of a permit seeking the extension of a tables and...

Two sides

Monday, 8 July 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

It’s not the first time I could note the following: on both sides of the abortion debate, those in favour believe they are defending the basis of human rights, and the same holds for those...

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