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The never-ending story?

Sunday, 30 June 2019, 10:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

The other day, a bright young TV presenter was publicly asking how and why the media seems so hooked on this never-ending story of the PN crisis in the aftermath of the recent electoral debacles, when...

In a noisy country

Sunday, 30 June 2019, 10:01 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Malta is an extraordinarily noisy country and noise pollution needs to be tackled as a matter of urgency because of the effect on our health due to the excessive noise to which we are continuously...

Drawing phalluses in the sky

Sunday, 30 June 2019, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Every so often, some childish fighter pilot climbs up in the sky and, instead of behaving according to the rulebooks, wastes time and energy drawing puerile, penile stuff in the sky for onlookers to...

The real issues

Sunday, 30 June 2019, 08:38 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

This long never-ending PN saga is getting many people mind-bogglingly bored. The extremely hot weather, the many distractions around, plus the fact that the final outcome is still uncertain –...

Fulfilling electoral pledges

Friday, 28 June 2019, 08:10 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Three theatre spaces will be benefitting from funds for major structural works following the evaluation of applications submitted under strand 2 of the Theatre Spaces Funding Scheme - another...

Constitutional changes

Thursday, 27 June 2019, 14:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Consultations seem to be happening in one way or another, about necessary changes that have long been mentioned to be made to the Constitution. Personally, I remain doubtful about how necessary these...

Too little, too late, too foreign

Thursday, 27 June 2019, 13:34 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Whatever Joseph Muscat and his band of crooks do now is just too late. No amount of trying to patch up will wash the situation clean. The Council of Europe report which was approved by a huge...

Post-Lassana execution: what now?

Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 09:03 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

With an information overload we are used to nowadays, it doesn't take long, for a cataclysmic event to be forgotten in a jiffy as new events move up the ladder of our news portals.  Whether this...

A Tale of Two Scheduled Sites

Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 08:20 Last update: about 6 years ago Tara Cassar

Last Thursday the Planning Board refused an application that sought to turn the 19th century Villa Leoni property in St Julians into a multi-storey hotel. The application would have resulted in the...

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