The Malta Independent 18 April 2024, Thursday
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No wrong?

Sunday, 5 February 2023, 06:07 Last update: about 2 years ago

Amazing, isn't it - no Labour minister has found fault with PM Robert Abela talking offhand with a magistrate about the work at the law courts. Even the justice?? minister saw nothing wrong with...

When earthquakes happen

Sunday, 5 February 2023, 06:06 Last update: about 2 years ago

I am writing on behalf of the Seismic Monitoring and Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta.  We refer to the article by Noel Grima entitled “Safe as Houses”...

Easing the car jams

Sunday, 29 January 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago

If the government really wants to remove cars from the roads it should start taxing car owners who do not have a garage. Or make them rent garage spaces and produce proof. Any garage owner who...

They deserve better

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 09:28 Last update: about 2 years ago

Fifty years ago today, on 22 January 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the infamous case that came to be known worldwide as Roe v Wade, thereby decriminalizing abortion throughout...

The PN’s stand on abortion and divorce

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 09:19 Last update: about 2 years ago

Historically the PN has always used these two words "abortion" and "divorce", to scare the wits of the Maltese, and particularly the Gozitans, for their own political ends. Using their enormous...

Malta International Airport’s cash pile

Sunday, 18 December 2022, 08:08 Last update: about 2 years ago

In a recent article elsewhere in the printed media, stockbroker Edward Rizzo highlighted MIA’s massive cash resources of €53.7 million as at 30 September. He correctly urged the company to...

Terminating a pregnancy to save a woman’s life

Sunday, 4 December 2022, 09:41 Last update: about 2 years ago

Perhaps as it currently reads, the proposed amendment to our abortion law leaves too wide a discretion to the medical practitioner which might be ripe for abuse. When is it justified to terminate a...

A technocrat turned politician

Sunday, 6 November 2022, 08:03 Last update: about 2 years ago

Only appointed Minister in November 2020, an economist by training and lecturer on the same subject together with accountancy, and having occupied various positions related to labour policies and...

Appreciation – Robert Arrigo (1954-2022)

Sunday, 30 October 2022, 06:32 Last update: about 2 years ago

Robert Arrigo's death is a profound loss not only to his family but to all of us. Although no words can really help to ease the pain and loss we collectively bear, his family must know that they are...

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