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Government housing

Thursday, 14 February 2019, 08:06 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The government has rightly decided to not simply provide more buildings to serve as social housing. Beyond this, it plans to monitor how the buildings are run and to ensure that the new residents...

The suicide notes

Wednesday, 13 February 2019, 08:06 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By...

A lion that squeaks like a rat

Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 07:49 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

Both the social and traditional media were agog last week in reaction to what can only be described as a vicious Facebook post by Leone Ganado, a Maltese Church consultant. This lion of uncompromising...

How ironic that we crowned ourselves as Homo Sapiens, the wise men

Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 07:47 Last update: about 6 years ago Camilla Appelgren

In nature there is one core rule to survive and safeguard your species’ future; the rule of sustainability. Everything on the planet of Earth form part of the ecosystem that makes life possible....

How Joseph rules Malta

Monday, 11 February 2019, 11:43 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

In 1960, Dom Mintoff published a short pamphlet called How Britain Rules Malta. It is the inspiration for the title of today’s article. A couple of years ago, I visited Belarus, the only...

Facts

Monday, 11 February 2019, 07:35 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

In past weeks, international institutions have opened their guns on “investment migration” schemes, as they are now being called – schemes that is, similar to the one being run from...

Constitutional reform: identifying the basic building blocks

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

Malta’s Constitution should be regarded as a living document: one that reflects our values and aspirations. These, naturally, change over time  and it is consequently logical that this is...

We will never let Labour trump the people

Sunday, 10 February 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Adrian Delia

Last Thursday, on behalf of the government, Minister Konrad Mizzi withdrew the Parliamentary resolution to hand over a massive piece of land to Corinthia Group. From the day that the resolution was...

Did Malta’s patron saint land in the wrong place?

Sunday, 10 February 2019, 09:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Today is the day Malta seems united as it celebrates one thing: St Paul, the man who saw the light in Damascus, was shipwrecked in Malta and converted us to Christianity.  Whether it was...

Counting chickens

Sunday, 10 February 2019, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The repeated polls by MaltaToday, and probably by others, keep saying that the PL will thrash the PN in May’s European Parliament elections and the limited local council elections by a margin...

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