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When safe hands are reliable

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 08:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Justyne Caruana

In public finances, a clear vision and diligent planning yield good results. When taken care of by safe and reliable hands, results become excellent and lead to an ongoing prosperity with a...

‘Forza Nazzjonali’ and ‘Malta Tagħna Lkoll’

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 08:34 Last update: about 7 years ago

As the latest corruption saga in Malta unfolds, our attention is focused once again on Pilatus Bank. The landslide victory of the Labour Party over Forza Nazzjonali caught a great many by surprise....

Crowd funding: migrating to a larger fish bowl

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 08:32 Last update: about 7 years ago George M Mangion

Readers may well ask how effective is crowd funding? The answer is that this novel way of equity financing enables a company to raise fund through small contributions from a large group of individuals...

Accepting the unacceptable

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 07:56 Last update: about 7 years ago Marie Benoît

It used to mystify me but it doesn't anymore as each day I come closer to understanding just a little bit more about human nature and the human condition.  I am not going to speak about domestic...

Machiavellian Putin wins another six-year term

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 07:49 Last update: about 7 years ago

Mr Putin has won the presidential election Russia, but did so without any opposition whatsoever. His opponents were wiped out by treacherous behaviour from Putin himself and some of his close...

Catharsis not through vengeance but through forgiveness

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 07:32 Last update: about 7 years ago

"I've just signed your death warrant and it is my honour and privilege to sentence you," said Judge Rosemarie Aquilina when sentencing Larry Nassar, the doctor who pleaded guilty to molesting US...

Good Friday processions

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 07:26 Last update: about 7 years ago

In 2017, a young Maltese priest wrote in a local newspaper that Good Friday processions "have gradually been transformed into exhibitions of power, vanity and...

HSBC fails challenge

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 07:18 Last update: about 7 years ago

What on earth is going on at HSBC? How can it possibly afford to ignore the public challenges I made, to try and "prove itself right and me wrong"? Has its Public Relations Department and...

Buzzwords and bees

Sunday, 25 March 2018, 07:13 Last update: about 7 years ago

The work of BeeSavers Malta started in the spring of 2014 when a group of motivated students keen to be of service to Nature, started by voluntarily rescuing bee swarms under the custodianship of an...

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