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You can't offer buckets of water instead of the sea

Tuesday, 19 June 2018, 08:24 Last update: about 7 years ago Camilla Appelgren

Last weekend I spent a whole day at the bay of Fomm Ir-rih. Sometimes I feel a need to disconnect from society and instead reconnect with nature. To lay down on your back in untouched nature is...

Recreational fishing

Monday, 18 June 2018, 07:43 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

If we wish to preserve fish stocks in the oceans there can be no other way. There has to be control and management over how much and how different fish species are caught. For this to be effective,...

The De Paule’s Band Club cannot be saved by a sloppy bill

Monday, 18 June 2018, 07:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Simon Mercieca

I have to admit that I was not expecting such a response to my open letter to the Prime Minister in support of Paola’s De Paule Band Club. There were those who heartily thanked me for...

In the wider context

Sunday, 17 June 2018, 10:58 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

We were rightly upset, this past week, at the tone and the words used about us by Matteo Salvini, Italian deputy prime minister and leader of the League in the Italian ruling coalition. Choosing...

Playing childish games

Saturday, 16 June 2018, 08:21 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Last week the Prime Minister was interviewed by a child.  Quite an appropriate situation when we realise the systematic infantilization of people and authority that is going on around...

INDEPTH: PN electoral commission has been dissolved

Friday, 15 June 2018, 09:50 Last update: about 7 years ago INDEPTH online

The Nationalist Party's electoral commission that was headed by former EU Commissioner Joe Borg has been dissolved, PN general secretary Clyde Puli said on Indepth yesterday. Interviewed by The...

It is the festa season

Friday, 15 June 2018, 09:05 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

Cultural heritage in our country operates on a number of levels, from professional organisations to voluntary based societies and groups with specific areas of interest. This wide spectrum of cultural...

Part of the Med?

Thursday, 14 June 2018, 08:23 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

We grasp that Malta is actually part of the Mediterranean when some dispute arises with one of our neighbours. Our economy and society seem to have remained insulated from the geographical context...

Malta must be united on migration

Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 13:53 Last update: about 7 years ago Miriam Dalli

Malta must needs to be united on the migration issue, and we cannot have a situation in which Parliament shows a common front and then, in Brussels, things happen differently, Labour MEP Miriam Dalli...

Joseph Muscat: The good, the bloopers and the bungles

Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 07:56 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

  A word of caution. Soon you will be walking down the streets unaided as you return to an ordinary life.  Joseph, you will like many other leaders, in due course fade into...

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