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The accelerated destruction of agricultural land

Sunday, 8 January 2023, 08:39 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

We live in an eco-system which is being slowly destroyed. This is recognised by one and all. Consider, for example the introductory sentences in the White Paper entitled Acquisition and...

Clint’s hidden million

Sunday, 8 January 2023, 08:31 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

Almost €1 million was paid in allowances to staff at a single division of Minister Clint Camilleri’s ministry in a single year. Staff at the Strategy and Support Divison of the Gozo...

Twelfth Night follies

Sunday, 8 January 2023, 07:37 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The Yuletide spirit did not take much to be dissipated this time.  In swift succession we have lost people we have loved and honoured – Sinisa Mihajlovic, Pele, Pope emeritus Benedict,...

Silvio Parnis

Friday, 6 January 2023, 11:56 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

I was left speechless when a friend of mine texted me a few days ago to inform me that Silvio Parnis was in a grave situation health-wise. In the meantime, another friend who had just visited him...

Foreign interference in Europe

Thursday, 5 January 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

A fairy story that some try to sell about the European Parliament is that efforts to influence the Parliament originate only from “authoritarian” countries ruled by undemocratic...

Sustainable development 2050

Thursday, 5 January 2023, 07:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Michael Briguglio

In my previous article in The Malta Independent, I presented a specific proposal in relation to Malta’s public consultation for sustainable development goals by 2050.  In this article I...

A world without wars

Monday, 2 January 2023, 09:58 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

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Don’t give civil matters a bad name

Sunday, 1 January 2023, 09:49 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

I’m tired of reading newspaper coverages of victims dismissed by the police for the latter’s lack of knowledge of basic Civil Law concepts. As a practitioner, I also have the misfortune of...

Choosing merit over political patronage

Sunday, 1 January 2023, 09:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Aquilina

The appointment of former Magistrates Doreen Clarke and Josette Demicoli as judges has, for the very first time in the history of independent Malta, prized merit over political patronage in judicial...

The green skills which we require

Sunday, 1 January 2023, 08:29 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Green skills do not grow on trees. Yet we need them in abundance in order to be able to navigate the ecological transition. We need to urgently come to terms with nature. It is required that we start...

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