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The Slot machine budget!

Sunday, 25 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

Watching a popular TV programme about the budget on a Friday evening, I could not help comparing this budget to the slot machine for many reasons. ...

The Marquis, The bishop and the bamboo stick

Sunday, 25 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A joke that did the jolly rounds in pre-Revolutionary France but survives comfortably and intact to this day tells of a Marquis in the court of Louis XV ...

A Simple decision

Sunday, 25 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

How much does it cost per metre of road to provide water, sewage, and electricity services to residents? ...

Where Are the liberated women?

Sunday, 25 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I’m taking a break from politics this week. Now, there, there, don’t get upset. I know how much you really want to hear all about who said what to whom in the latest life or death political crisis. ...

Something Fishy going on

Sunday, 25 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

After the Michael Farrugia/Albert Fenech debacle, there’s been more nonsense in Parliament. Joe Mizzi, who was Prime Minister Sant’s Minister Without Portfolio, produced with a flourish a copy of a list of yachts taken ...

Environmental Blues

Sunday, 25 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

The management of our environment is going to be a major critical factor for the successful achievement of our economic and social aims...

When You are not safe in your own home?

Sunday, 25 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Roofs collapsing, people dying or having a lucky escape. Often older people are involved. Old people old buildings. The news broadcast last week ...

Economic Growth’s many recipes

Saturday, 24 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

CAMBRIDGE, MA: Development “big think” has always been dominated by comprehensive visions about transforming poor societies. From the so-called “Big Push” to “Balanced Growth,” from the “Washington ...

This Fair land

Saturday, 24 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

The Chamber of Architects has published what has been described as a “visionary document”, which proposes the setting up of a national centre for the built up environment. ...

Life In the political limelight

Friday, 23 November 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

After 25 years in the political arena, one gets to the stage where he can look back, at times with endearment and on other days with a heavier nostalgic heart at what one dreamt of...

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