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In-Nigret: more agricultural land to be bulldozed

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 08:35 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The local plans are seven in number. They are supplemented by a land use planning rationalisation exercise. This consists of the identification of land outside the development zone (ODZ),...

Abela’s destruction of language

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 07:51 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

“If there is a political force that can bring about change it is the Labour party in government,” Robert Abela declared. Abela was being ‘interviewed’ by ONE journalist Samuel...

Degeneration under Labour

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 07:40 Last update: about 4 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It doesn’t seem that the general public is angry – or if there is anger, it’s still inward; people are seething and not really expressing it. It seems to me that the Maltese are sick...

The cumulative impact

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 06:49 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

Make no mistake. There is in politics something called the cumulative impact. For some time people could downplay the impact of what is happening around them but then the cumulative impact kicks in...

The beauty of restoration

Friday, 19 May 2023, 09:11 Last update: about 4 years ago Owen Bonnici

The Restoration Directorate has been actively engaged in the field of restoration of our country's architectural heritage over the past year. Through a wide range of restoration and rehabilitation...

Post Brexit

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Since leaving the EU, the UK has remained in a state of flux. Meanwhile, the disaster that some Europeans were evisaging would follow on Brexit did not happen and likewise the revival that some in the...

Pension Reform: Squaring the circle

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 07:50 Last update: about 4 years ago David Spiteri Gingell

During the past months we have watched France burn, Paris drowned in waste, workers, young and old, in their hundreds of thousands, together with their trade union representatives, protest against...

Precarious workers without a voice

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 07:46 Last update: about 4 years ago Michael Briguglio

On 12 and 13 June, an important vote on the directive on the rights of platform workers will be taken at EU level. This will be held during an Employment, Social Policy, Health, and Consumer Affairs...

Foreign interference

Monday, 15 May 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Given my age, I can well remember the political controversies that used to prevail in Malta regarding the issue of foreign interference in our internal affairs. They erupted under the Labour...

Financial Services Arbiter: The wrong man for the job

Sunday, 14 May 2023, 09:16 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

By means of press release 230619 of 28 April 2023, the Ministry for Finance and Employment announced that Alfred Mifsud had been appointed as the second Arbiter for Financial Services, replacing Dr...

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