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Accreditation Of the Malta National Laboratory

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

The accreditation certificate to the Malta National Laboratory is an achievement following months of hard work by the laboratory and a thorough assessment by the National Accreditation Board (NAB). ...

The Nanny state or the granny state?

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

It was funny wasn’t it, in male dominated media Malta, to read that Sina Bugeja, of anti-Yorkie chocolate “its not for girls” fame, is ticking off The Times for referring to women in certain positions as chairmen rather than chairpersons?...

Bugs, Battles and bad news

Sunday, 11 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

A lady I know well took care of her father after he was admitted to hospital. He had surgery, very successfully, and was discharged....

I’m So dizzy…

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

After the almost hysterical climax of Saturday’s Malta Song for Europe when Olivia Lewis was crowned the winner (I shudder to think what would have happened if she hadn’t won!), the singers spent last Sunday ...

Surviving The scrap heap experience

Sunday, 11 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

The convulsive changes that are taking place in the economies of most western countries as a result of globalisation are creating many victims, not just among those who used to be termed “working class” families, but increasingly among middle class ones. ...

Oh, To be a personbird

Sunday, 11 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

A little bit of a furore has developed after a woman in an official position insisted on the use of the hybrid word “chairperson”, rather than the Madam Chairman that more ordinarily substitutes for Mr Chairman,...

Deadly Virus

Saturday, 10 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

The leading article in The Malta Independent (The Tone is Set, 5 February) highlighted the disease which has seized the Maltese body politic – namely chronic political polarisation....

Three Years in government

Friday, 9 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

It will soon be Lawrence Gonzi’s third anniversary as prime minister of Malta....

Friday Wisdom: Fiscal Reform

Friday, 9 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Last week I argued that our economy is continuing to perform below its true potential and registering much inferior growth rates than what is being achieved by the new members of the EU...

A Peculiar kind of morality

Thursday, 8 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The government has been praised in some quarters for its plans to regularise in part the situation of those who live together without being married, and of children who are born out of wedlock...

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