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Arvid Pardo’s legacy: rediscovering a maritime vocation

Sunday, 12 March 2023, 07:48 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

“We are naturally vitally interested in the sea which surrounds us and through which we live and breathe.” This was stated by Arvid Pardo then Malta’s UN Ambassador when addressing...

How Labour killed Mintoff’s dream

Sunday, 12 March 2023, 07:26 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

“This is the most anti-socialist act one can commit”.  Labour Gzira Mayor Conrad Borg Marche openly accused his own party of betraying the most fundamental socialist...

Ten years of Labour

Sunday, 12 March 2023, 06:49 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

This week we celebrated two very different anniversaries. On Tuesday we commemorated the 20 years since the people of this country chose to enter the European Union over the dire predictions of Alfred...

The man in the arena

Friday, 10 March 2023, 10:44 Last update: about 4 years ago Owen Bonnici

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in...

Seasons

Thursday, 9 March 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

It seems like there are two perfectly legitimate dates at which spring is reckoned to start: the 21st of March, as I was always taught; and the first day of the same month. There are good reasons to...

The politics of the hospital controversy

Thursday, 9 March 2023, 07:56 Last update: about 4 years ago Michael Briguglio

Last Sunday the Nationalist Party held its second protest following a court judgement to annul the public-private deal on 3 hospitals in Malta, which, to date, had cost well over €300 million...

What's done well, done badly

Monday, 6 March 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Governments easily fall for the temptation of boasting how they’re doing everything right. They find themselves under attack on all fronts and “naturally” react by claiming that the...

Maladministration at its best … but who cares!

Sunday, 5 March 2023, 09:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

There are four forms of responsibility that emanate from the Adrian Delia v Prime Minister et (Vitals/Steward) court judgment of 24 February 2023: criminal, civil, moral, and political.  Now that...

Private profits public risks

Sunday, 5 March 2023, 08:41 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

On Monday Parliament discussed the decision delivered in Court by Judge Francesco Depasquale relative to the Government hospital concession awarded to Vitals Global Healthcare, eventually substituted...

Protecting our high seas – is ‘positive energy’ enough?

Sunday, 5 March 2023, 08:32 Last update: about 4 years ago Alicia Bugeja Said

The importance of our oceans on our global health and environment, cannot possibly be understated. As actor and activist Jane Fonda told the AFP news agency, “if we lose the ocean, we lose...

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