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Sanity About asylum seekers

Monday, 31 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Over the past weeks, this country has wobbled, much as the world wobbled on 26 December, because of pictures showing soldiers beating up asylum seekers who were protesting....

Local Councils’ expenditure

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Reference is made to the article by Noel Grima titled “Increase in the number of defaulting councils” and to the letter by Richard Stagno Navarra titled “Checking expenditure of local councils is a must” (TMIS, 16 and 23 January respectively)....

Jimmy Magro And the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Schools

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

We write on behalf of Mr Chris Pullicino, Financial Controller of the Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools, to whom reference was made, albeit not by name, in Mr Jimmy Margo’s letter “Making the News” (TMIS, 23 January)....

Residents Oppose Qui-si-Sana project

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The Qui-si-Sana development brief should be scrapped and re-thought from the start for the following reasons:...

The British Crown Sought to kill nationalist aspirations

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

In his contribution “Maltese Wartime Internees”, Enzo Cachia states: “In 1933 the local British authorities suspended the self-government Constitution because the education minister had approved the sum of Lm5,000 for the teaching of the Italian language....

A Tsunami of hypocrisy

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

As if to burst the bubble of human greatness, infallibility and perceived omnipotence, Earth has once again let loose powerful vibrations on her once pristine surface, in a sudden instance of horrific oceanic energy killing hundreds of thousands of innoce...

Marsovin And the local wine industry

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I would like to congratulate Marsovin vinters for their commendable initiative to inform the public about the local grape harvest in their privately owned estates and from the contracted vineyards....

Qui-si-Sana

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

In political science the ruling class is elected to serve the people and not to ruin their good style of living and it is in this light that development here is fully considered as unsavoury treatment; by analogy, much like the savage treatment meted out ...

A Divorce law

Friday, 21 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

It is utterly ridiculous and absurd for this tiny country, important though in reality insignificant to the majority of the 450 million citizens who form the European Union up to now, that we still evaluate divorce on a parameter as to whether there is a ...

Tourists Harassed in Xaghra

Friday, 21 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

We refer to the article by Matthew Xuereb (TMID 4 January), in which he reported about complaints by Gozitan residents of tourists being harassed at various tourist sites at Xaghra....

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