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Three billboards outside Valletta, Malta

Sunday, 18 February 2018, 10:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

In the Oscar-nominated movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, an anguished mother seeks justice for her murdered daughter. After months pass without the culprit being caught, the mother...

Making hay… in St George’s Bay

Sunday, 18 February 2018, 08:06 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The 23-storey Pender Gardens high-rise is nearly completed, after nearly 10 years of continuous construction activity. The application for the 31-storey Mercury House was approved last month and next...

A government on botox

Saturday, 17 February 2018, 09:21 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Each day and every utterance from the Prime Minister is drawing our reality farther and farther away from life as we know it.  People can feel the tug and the uncomfortable sensation that nothing...

Music to our ears

Friday, 16 February 2018, 08:26 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

"We're going to play "A Hero's Life", an overjoyed Sigmund Mifsud told me on the phone.  "This is such a big thing for us!" Indeed it was.  A Hero's Life is, of course, Richard...

It’s up to us

Thursday, 15 February 2018, 11:21 Last update: about 7 years ago David Stellini

I get quite taken aback when someone asks me why the EU is not doing anything about widespread corruption in Malta. It does happen quite frequently and I sincerely feel that these things should be...

Evaluation

Thursday, 15 February 2018, 08:08 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Big projects have always been an incessant temptation for Maltese governments, on both right and left. That is understandable. With such projects, one could face up to a substantial part of the...

Master plans must be mastered

Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 14:17 Last update: about 7 years ago Marthese Portelli

In June 2013, Government had gone on record saying that it intended to substitute the regional local plans with three generic plans – one for Gozo and Comino, one for the whole of urban Malta...

Doing an Iceland

Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 09:12 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

At the moment we are enjoying the Winter Olympics, this time round being hosted by Pyeongchang in South Korea.  Very soon most of us will be following with intent, probably one of the greatest...

Back to the future

Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 08:27 Last update: about 7 years ago Gejtu Vella

Last Wednesday, together with Dr Roberta Lepre and Dr Andre’ Borg, I was invited to participate in the discussion programme Iswed fuq l-Abjad on NET TV, hosted by anchor presenter Frank...

Time to rethink?

Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 08:20 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

While our doctors have been greedily looking after their own interests in an ever-changing scenario of the Maltese health sector which, undoubtedly, needs a long-overdue refit more than Malta needs...

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