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Breaking the taboo

Friday, 23 February 2018, 08:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Alex Muscat

Mental illness is still a major taboo. Most of the time people are not comfortable speaking about it, especially when it affects themselves or someone close to them. According to the World Health...

Foreign workers in Malta

Thursday, 22 February 2018, 07:55 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

There seems to be a misunderstanding about the value added which foreign workers in our society could bring to the economy. The fact that such activity exists seems to be taken in itself as an...

Education at resource centres

Thursday, 22 February 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 7 years ago Therese Comodini Cachia

With the introduction of mainstream education very few realise that we still have places of education for children who at one stage in their educational path move out of mainstream education and are...

There's no looking back

Thursday, 22 February 2018, 07:52 Last update: about 7 years ago Marlene Mizzi

There is no better occasion at which a nation is reminded of the state of things in the real world than when an international credit agency, free and expertly advised, offers an opinion on its...

What drives our passion is ideas

Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 08:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This week the Faculty for Social Wellbeing organised the Dean’s Awards Ceremony which is intended to celebrate the academic excellence of its students, the relationship it has with the...

Car emissions law occasion to make a difference

Tuesday, 20 February 2018, 09:24 Last update: about 7 years ago Miriam Dalli

The car emissions law being drawn up by the European Parliament is aimed to tackle environmental issues and improve our health, Labour MEP Miriam Dalli says. In her vlog, Dalli speaks about the...

The religious and the profane

Tuesday, 20 February 2018, 09:19 Last update: about 7 years ago Gejtu Vella

I am not fond, not even remotely, of carnival and the ancillary activities which are intrinsically related to it.  Admittedly, over the years, most of the carnival events have improved...

Cultural wars

Monday, 19 February 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

The more I see how things are now developing, here and abroad, increasingly the temptation is to conclude that political initiative is taking the shape of cultural manoeuvering. It adds up to an...

Bitcoins and Blockchain

Monday, 19 February 2018, 07:36 Last update: about 7 years ago Simon Mercieca

In the past weeks, there were a number of media reports about our government's initiatives in bitcoin and blockchain. These are two different sectors but as they are linked to  digital...

Three billboards outside Valletta, Malta

Sunday, 18 February 2018, 10:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

In the Oscar-nominated movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, an anguished mother seeks justice for her murdered daughter. After months pass without the culprit being caught, the mother...

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