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Maxicredit: Unlocking the wealth of property

Monday, 11 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Although our country has a relatively high proportion of home owners, many of whom have little or no debt on their property...

Roaming Charges

Monday, 11 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

In its plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament recently voted in favour of an EU regulation to reduce mobile roaming charges...

Josie’s Velyoos

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Imagine being stripped of the right to lead an independent life,” goes the tag line in the latest marketing campaign for SOS Eden, which raises funds for the Eden Foundation that Josie Muscat set up. ...

A Moment In Time: In search of Ashley and Madeleine

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The other day, one of our more inquisitive young editors in the electronic media phoned me to enquire whether an Ashley Flores, who has been missing from home for...

The Economy needs a blood transfusion

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

As expected, the EU has issued a positive convergence report on Malta. Although, the EU gave Malta a creditable pass mark, it made it amply clear that more effort ...

Can Anyone get 50% plus?

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Watching the way Maltese society is disintegrating voting wise before our very eyes, I wonder if any one party can make the magical 50 per cent plus of the vote next year, or any time soon....

A Tale of two Maltas

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

The contrast between those who were deeply moved by the canonisation of Saint Gorg Preca, and those who think it’s a whole load of rubbish, came out in full force over the past few weeks....

Government Expenditure could be blind to child labour

Saturday, 9 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

As the largest buyer in the country, the government wields considerable financial power in its procurement of public goods and services. Over the past three years it undertook some Lm50 million worth of contracts for each year. ...

Change Is an imperative of progress

Saturday, 9 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Time’s winged chariot waits for no man. Its passage is unstoppable. After all, life is motion and motion means change. However, the mill wheels of time turn for ever, lazy minds are not easily reconciled with the risks of change....

Six Days forty years ago

Friday, 8 June 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Forty years ago this week I was a young lad of fifteen sitting for my O levels. Why should I remember this event so specifically, you may ask? It is not exactly earth shattering....

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