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Innov-Nation: Some

Sunday, 16 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I originally wrote this article about three years ago, but have never got round to publishing it. While things have improved in the last three years, one notable example being SmartCity, there is still much to be done to po...

Fighting Crime: a success story

Sunday, 16 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

The recent Budget debate, as it evolved, uncovered a blatant truth: that this Government acts responsibly on public finances and that Labour, awe-struck by the Budget’s reasonable...

Between A rock and a hard place

Sunday, 16 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

One wonders whether our senior Central Bank officials are relieved or becoming increasingly anxious at the prospect of giving up their power to influence our country’s inflation pro...

Dear God, What a snob

Sunday, 16 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

I’m going to start with an appeal to your better nature. The Red Cross is urgently in need of supplies for the 1,300 immigrants in detention and another 1,000 immigrants who, in this cold and rainy weather, are living in ...

Maltese Who do not accept their DNA

Sunday, 16 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Unfortunately, the fact that there are still people trying to incite racial hatred near our centres for immigrants, which is very “unchristmassy” indeed, did not make headline news this week....

For All our children to succeed

Saturday, 15 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A sound education system is indispensable for a country to continue with economic sustainability especially within the international economy. And the PN government acknowledges this fact....

Sport And education: The value of winning (3)

Saturday, 15 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Plato’s concept of dikaiosune is also strikingly parallel to the athletic ideal of teamwork. In book IV of the Republic, he explicitly associates dikaiosune with the proper management of a community in every individual ...

Fund-raising Activities

Friday, 14 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

The Malta Labour Party yesterday held another fund-raising campaign, its fourth such exercise during the current year. The Nationalist Party will be holding its traditional fund-raising campaign – its only one of the year – tomorrow....

Employment In Malta

Friday, 14 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Recent statistics released about the Employment and Training Corporation job centre, with so many thousands of job enquiries and job placements done, makes interesting reading. ...

Betting Away spending power and social values

Friday, 14 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I had clearly pointed out the risk to public morality of privatising the hitherto public lotto without taking precautions not to expose the general public, with an inherent Mediterranean cultural inclination for gambling, ...

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