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Ganging up on others

Sunday, 1 August 2021, 11:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

The incident on Gozo in which one or more locals threw an African into the sea (while being cheered on by a largish crowd) raises many questions. (I won't discuss this specific incident in particular;...

The Republic is sick

Sunday, 1 August 2021, 10:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Following the compilation of evidence in our law courts relative to the multiple cases dealing with the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia is in itself a detailed continuously developing...

Understanding the protest

Sunday, 1 August 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Saturday's protest in Valletta has deeply shocked the country so much so that most of the media were late in understanding what was going on and almost all avoided giving some sort of...

Approval by disapproval

Saturday, 31 July 2021, 07:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

The most creative weapon used to its full force by Joseph Muscat and Robert Abela’s government against the good of the country, has been the treacherous and wicked intention to fool the people,...

Blue heart

Friday, 30 July 2021, 07:25 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Today is the day chosen by the United Nations as the World Day against trafficking in persons.    Malta is joining the global Blue Heart Campaign to raise awareness about this heinous...

Days of healing and reckoning

Friday, 30 July 2021, 07:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

As I write this, the country is waiting for the publication of the conclusions of the public inquiry on the heinous assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The day it happens will be an important...

Green

Thursday, 29 July 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

One of the defence mechanisms that are being built up against climate change seeks to promote “green” investments and penalise those backing processes and projects that will end up...

Mediterranean food

Monday, 26 July 2021, 07:35 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

I followed two presentations given recently about “Mediterranean” food and how good it can be, not just by way of tastiness, but health-wise as well. Among the ingredients that make...

Message delivered

Sunday, 25 July 2021, 11:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

The protest began in the United States in the Covid-free days of 2016 and became a pre-match feature of football games and other sports around the world last year as the worldwide Black Lives Matter...

Tourism: from Covid to climate change

Sunday, 25 July 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The tourism lobby, through the MHRA (Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association), is once more breathing down the authorities' neck. Some of their former employees have not returned, after the...

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