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The Ghost of Muscat on Taparsi Island

Sunday, 20 June 2021, 11:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Let’s take stock of the situation. As everybody can see for themselves, Malta is no longer charming. There’s a sizeable minority of citizens that’s dying for the modernisation, the...

Another fake consultation

Sunday, 20 June 2021, 10:17 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Reading through the Green Paper entitled “Towards Cleaner Vehicles on Our Roads” it is evident that this consultation process is flawed. After being four years in the making, instead of...

The great deception

Sunday, 20 June 2021, 09:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

In three years' time we will be celebrating 60 years from our independence. We will also be celebrating 60 years of our national deception, which coming developments might reveal in all its...

Environment default

Saturday, 19 June 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Here we are once again at that all important pre-election stage to re-elect Labour.  Needless to say, the marketing experts have taken a look at the social media, some opinions of Labour’s...

Saying goodbye to the great innovator

Friday, 18 June 2021, 07:44 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Edward de Bono was one of a kind. His name, widely respected and appreciated, evolved, over the years, into a synonym of two of his creations: the term lateral thinking and the famous six...

Can the future be planned?

Thursday, 17 June 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Over the last forty years, the overwhelming grip that the free market concept has acquired over how economic policy is run resulted in a total loss of the prestige which planning previously...

My 51st birthday wishes

Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 07:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

It’s my birthday, well soon enough.  Like most who go beyond the 50-year mark (gee 51, and I feel that age with all the nooks and crannies that come with the package!) it becomes a moment...

Message(s) from the ground

Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 07:29 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

As the silly season slowly takes over and people follow the Euro 2020 football pitch more than the political arena, I grasped the opportunity of the subsiding pandemic to make a few home visits in our...

Small firms, big firms

Monday, 14 June 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

It is true that as is often said, in its economic and financial policies the EU attaches much importance to small and medium sized enterprises (smes). It can hardly do otherwise since they account for...

Tonio Fenech’s class of 2006

Sunday, 13 June 2021, 10:12 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Tonio Fenech, former Finance Minister, has been resurrected onto a political platform to share his views in a recent political activity held at Verdala Palace. The environment, he said, does not win...

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