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A Moment In Time: Strange wind of newspaper change

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Can there ever be too many newspapers? I start with an immediate auto answer to the question: of course not. With ink in my blood probably since conception, I have always believed the more newspapers we have ...

We Definitely need a change

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Statistics published by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, show that while wages and salaries grew by an average 3.3 per cent in the EU, in Malta this grew by a meagre 0.3 per cent....

Freeze, And put your hands in the air

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

After a recent column I wrote about the Consumer Association’s suggestion for a price freeze, I received the following e-mail. “An association which claims that it looks after the interests of the consumer ...

Hallucination 2007

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

After two decades in government, and a few months away from a general election the Nationalist Party has published a vision statement entitled “Vision 2015”. The vision is very broadly defined but not beefed up....

Campaign Strategies and tactical mistakes

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The last few weeks have certainly given new meaning to the term “dirty campaigning”. If this is going to be the level of debate before we go to the polls, it won’t be...

Love That lap dancing

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A book published in 1989 by sociologist Arlie Hochschild dealt with modern women’s double life, or more precisely double shift, with one shift in the workplace and one shift at home....

Where Do we go from here?

Saturday, 13 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

During the past hundred years, the Maltese people were witnesses to traumatic changes that transformed the face of the earth. Our destiny seemed, at times,...

Vision Or stagnation

Friday, 12 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

There is a vision out there for Malta. A vision that is calling upon all of us to roll up our sleeves and do all that is required of us in order that, by 1 January 2015, we can find ourselves at the forefront and in a position of ...

Premature Exuberance

Friday, 12 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

As we enter the final stretch towards D-day for the adoption of the euro, I cannot help noticing a measure of premature exuberance, celebrating an achievement which has not yet been achieved and risking slip ups ...

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