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PLPN have continuously sponsored greed

Sunday, 5 September 2021, 09:03 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The local plans are 7 in number.  The Marsaxlokk Bay Local Plan was approved in 1995, just two years after the setting up of the Planning Authority. It took another 7 years to approve the next...

How to lose a majority

Sunday, 5 September 2021, 08:01 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Nothing is assured in life, especially in politics or human management. With hindsight we might say that this or that result ‘could have been foreseen' but at that time or even before that time...

Harbouring grudges

Saturday, 4 September 2021, 08:02 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Habouring a grudge has become instinctive.  A person quickly assumes a personal grudge, for the slightest of rebukes or difference of opinion.  Most words, no matter how graciously spoken or...

Forward

Friday, 3 September 2021, 09:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Main events which, over time, have been thrown in the way of humankind or are directly created by it become the source of investigation of many historians, journalists and creative writers alike....

After the victory

Thursday, 2 September 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

I believe that the Labour Party stands a very good chance of winning the next election. It would deserve this victory despite the burdens it carries created by a number of mistakes and inadequacies in...

Eco-tourism in small islands

Thursday, 2 September 2021, 07:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Michael Briguglio

Covid-19 is having continuous considerable impact on tourism around the world. When verifying such impact and possible remedies, one must contextualise evidence and consult with key stakeholders in...

Our prison is festering

Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 08:58 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The situation in our prisons is rotten and decayed.  The never-ending criticism is not a fib.  If one had to join the dots, we would soon realize that this Institution, which has never been...

Paying for their greylist bravado

Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 08:57 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

We know very well how we got there. Up till a few years back, Malta’s name in Europe suggested sun, sea and maybe that queer old Dom. Now it largely suggests corruption, money laundering,...

Hotels only

Monday, 30 August 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The view continues to prevail that all by itself as a new project, a hotel cannot survive. It needs to have in association as an ancillary project the building of apartments and offices. Profits made...

Oh! Calcutta!

Sunday, 29 August 2021, 10:41 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

If Satan were available for an interview, the journalist who’d manage to do it would become the paragon of the profession. Interviewing the Great Deceiver would give readers a chance to discover...

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