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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...

The voice of artists

Friday, 29 March 2019, 10:49 Last update: about 6 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit Dimech speaks about his work to be the voice of artists. He said that through his work he was ensuring that performers, singers, song writers, musicians, authors and...

Hard work

Friday, 29 March 2019, 08:27 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

The legal profession is a vocation based on expertise in the law and in its applications. Addressing the 114 lawyers who received their warrant this week, I highlighted the importance and...

Good will always triumph over evil

Thursday, 28 March 2019, 11:07 Last update: about 6 years ago Marlene Mizzi

The nightmarish episode of the terrorist attack on innocent Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand, left the world temporarily speechless. Not for the first time, society has sadly but...

Whom to believe?

Thursday, 28 March 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Negative. That was the “verdict” delivered in the US by the special counsel Moeller charged to investigate whether Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with the Russians to...

Government hypocrisy on gender balance

Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 13:52 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

PN MEP Candidate Peter Agius speaks about the government’s proposal of 12 additional seats in Parliament.  Increasing female participation in politics is very good but will not of...

Malta needs a consistent voice for the environment

Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 09:49 Last update: about 6 years ago Michael Briguglio

In this vlog Dr Michael Briguglio describes the deterioration of the Maltese environment. He asserts that Malta needs representation in the European Parliament which is consistently in favour of...

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