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Protecting The Silent City

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

As a frequent visitor to these islands and knowing that great efforts are being made to increase the number of holiday visitors, I was somewhat surprised to see that horse drawn carriages are allowed to drive over the ...

A Moment In Time: For those not to the ‘manor’ born

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

I will always remember the thrill I got when a telephone call to my old Union Press newsroom number brought me the news that my then fiancée and I had been granted a new flat in one of the many new ...

The World around us:

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Mother Teresa is my kind of girlLast month, private letters written by Mother Teresa were published for the first time and revealed a 50- year struggle with her faith, or more ...

Cart Before the horse

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Julian Zarb, president of the Malta Tourism Society, agrees “wholeheartedly” that this island and its people “needs to pull its socks up and inculcate a sense of commitment and consistency in the ...

Disgraceful Bus service

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

It is really incredible how the ADT has the guts to claim that it is better to use public transport. Definitely not in Ganu Street, Birkirkara it isn’t....

Don’t Snigger, it’s just a niggle

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

Stephen Vassallo is not a man who usually talks out of the back of his neck, so when he writes that the word niggardly is being dropped in polite conversation he presumably has some evidence to support his ...

Disappointing Junior Eurovision Final

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

The Junior Eurovision final was held last Friday. And what a great disappointment it was, what an unprofessional evening. I do not believe that there was neither a stage manager nor producer for the evening. ...

Disagreeing With the Pope

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

On Sunday 2 September, Pope Benedict urged us to take care of our natural environment and “to reverse tendencies that risk leading to irreversible situations of degradation”....

Knowing The Gozitans

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Your correspondent Marshall Dixon (“It is now or never”, TMIS, 2 September) was surprised to find the hall at the MEPA Ta’ Cenc meeting on 21 August packed with Gozitans, most of whom were openly ...

Cleared For take-off

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

While the political engineers of the Nationalist Party are making their last desperate attempt to overhaul the old engine, which has propelled their party for the past 20 years, the Labour Party’s aircraft has been cleared for take-off. ...

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