Today Is polling day
Saturday, 28 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Malta has been in overdrive since February. The Libya crisis ignited a long chain of events that pre-empted the current polling campaign. First we saw streams o...
A Local Star
Friday, 27 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Star, the dog found bound and buried with a gunshot wound to her head, seems to be on the mend. She is walking and back to her friendly self, oblivious to the outpouring of c...
A Silence that speaks volumes
Friday, 27 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The government has chosen to remain silent on the contents of the cohabitation Bill, which it said will be enacted before the end of the year. Questions by this media house have remained ...
Period Of silence silent no more
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The country’s pre-electoral period of silence, in today’s day and age, is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. More than that, the archaic regulation is counterproductive to both the tenets of media pluralism as well as to the interests of a prope...
The Maltese Way of doing almost everything
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Sometimes we put the cart before the horse. Malta has always been a reactive, rather than proactive society. We have the same attitude when it comes to implementation of projects – whether minor or of a gr...
Break-ups Are not cause of children’s trauma
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
A very important issue which the ‘No’ camp needs to acknowledge is the amount of wounds they have re-opened in this terrible, blackmail campaign that ...
Setting Women back 100 years
Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
One of the most significant revelations of this referendum debate is that it has exposed the underlying attitudes towards women by many politicians and public figures....
Fundamentalism Vs reason
Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
It is a great pity that the campaign leading up to the referendum on divorce has been tarnished by traits of fundamentalism from the anti-divorce camp – and this is me...
Divorce Opinions count, just not at the polls
Sunday, 22 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
What with all the detailed arguments we have heard over recent weeks, all the misinformation and disinformation, and all the mudslinging and accusations, one would be forgiven for being more ...
Bad News for Maltese football
Saturday, 21 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Maltese football, already so low in the world rankings and lacking credibility, was dealt another blow a few days ago when it was repor...