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Rent hardships should be addressed – Michael Briguglio

Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 08:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Michael Briguglio

The other day an 80-year-old pensioner phoned me. He was worried about the impact of legal amendements addressing rent, which will result in a hefty increase of the annual amount he pays, from 300...

Offloading our children

Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 08:48 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

It is most certainly positive and a sign of progress that we have so many services in this Country to support parents in the nurturing and raising of our children.  It is brilliant that we have...

More awareness on autism

Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 10:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Miriam Dalli

At the start of the month dedicated to autism, Labour MEP today dedicates her vlog to highlight initiatives that were taken and continue to be taken to raise awareness on the condition....

Instead of quotas

Monday, 1 April 2019, 07:55 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The government’s proposal regarding how to increase the representation of women in the Maltese Parliament deserves support. At last a concrete measure has been set forward to resolve a...

A note of appreciation

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 09:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Marie Louise Coleiro Preca

It has been my honour and privilege to have had this opportunity to be able to share with you, as one of you, these past five years as President of the Republic of Malta. Throughout that time, I...

A Gallimaufry of Stupidity, Selfishness and Spiritedness

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 09:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

This is one of those weeks when, instead of tackling one theme, I have to flit from one theme to another, ranging from stupidity to selfishness, to spiritedness. The stupidity of the pro-abortion...

Transport policy: a hidden agenda?

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Mishandling all matters relating to transport policy, the government is continuously sending conflicting signals, depending on who is listening at a particular moment. Way back in September 2017,...

Freedom Day: another National Disaster Day

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 08:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Politics is the art of making the impossible seem possible. But in Malta, politics has been reduced to making all things mad and surreal. Forty years ago the Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff -...

Muscat’s jokes

Sunday, 31 March 2019, 08:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

They cannot be anything else. They are jokes, probably invented at a dull moment in Castile to liven things up, to distract the electorate from weightier issues such as transparency and governance, to...

Call Saul

Saturday, 30 March 2019, 09:16 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

It would well appear that Minister Konrad Mizzi has once again delivered.  This time at the offices of our national airline, Air Malta.  Having turned what was a loss of €10.8 million...

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