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Assessment And resolutions

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

As another year bites the dust and we start the 41st calendar year after independence, we ought to make an honest national assessment of where we really stand. ...

Peter

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

As one gets older one treasures more and more catching up with past acquaintances and freshening up old relationships. ...

Who Speaks for social justice?

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Theologians ought to be in a position to understand and evaluate systems of political economy. There have been many such in human history, ranging from the feudal system, based on grants of land to the nobility, to mercantilist systems, to several forms o...

Who Cares why they give as long as they do so

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Today, thousands of people will be glued to their television sets, watching the hugely popular charity marathon, Strina....

The Magical Bug

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

When I walked into the Where's Everybody office on Monday I found a noose hanging from the ceiling in the studio. It had a note attached: “If you want to use this device, book your turn at reception. Thank you”....

Christmas? What Do you mean, Christmas?

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Why am I always the last to find out anything? Why did nobody tell me that Christmas was going to fall on the 25th this year? ...

Malta – ‘...putting Wealthier States to shame’

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

This is what Dame Anstee, wrote in her autobiographical book Never Learn to Type – A Woman at the United Nation, published last year by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, UK. ...

After The deluge

Friday, 24 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The acrimonious budget debate is over, but the fallout continues – thick and fast....

Yes We can

Friday, 24 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

It is not just because on Christmas Eve one has to try to be positive. It is mainly because I do believe that, for all the economic travails that are finally widely acknowledged, we can, if we really want to, return to a sustainable growth path within a r...

Towards A more effective social dialogue

Thursday, 23 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The mechanism of social dialogue, in existence in Malta since 1990 and legally institutionalised in 2001 through the MCESD Act, offers a platform where different interests of workers and employers are recognised and collective representation of their inte...

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