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Post-Covid plan

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

It was quite the right idea to start preparing a plan for how the country should organise its exit from the state of crisis it had to maintain during the months (still ongoing) during which we needed...

‘Ziemel, ziemel’

Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 07:37 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This is the bitter story of a sweet mischievous boy I fell in love with.  I haven’t ever spoken openly about this chapter in my life, a sad one for that matter. This is the...

Lack of consultation risks EU funding problems

Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 07:35 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

Government is late in presenting Malta’s National Recovery plan to tap into 316 million in EU funds. What’s worse, is that the draft being pieced up as we speak is not the outcome of...

Electoral races

Monday, 3 May 2021, 07:32 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

We all agree that the best way by which Malta should be run is in democratic mode. It is not generally accepted though that in a small community like ours, where we all practically know each other,...

Just saying...

Sunday, 2 May 2021, 09:59 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

The recent spat between the Labour government whip, Glenn Bedingfield, and the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life George Hyzler, highlights one very important point of realisation: it takes...

ERA’s accountability: keeping up the pressure

Sunday, 2 May 2021, 08:57 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

On Tuesday, slightly after 11am I received a telephone call from the EIA office at the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) informing me that the Waste to Energy (WtE) Environment Impact...

The Dubai-sation of Malta – the end of the dream

Sunday, 2 May 2021, 07:56 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

I was there when the Dubai dream came to Malta, and for a long time I looked back at that time with optimism and pride. Now I am not so sure. Strike that. I think the Dubai dream started...

Care about your country

Saturday, 1 May 2021, 07:53 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

What do I love about my country?  These days it is getting quite hard to say.  For citizens of other countries, it can come quite easily for them to list reasons to love their...

A friend indeed

Friday, 30 April 2021, 07:53 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

During the time of need when a cruel pandemic tore through our way of life and endangered jobs and livelihoods everywhere across the globe, our workers found, in the Maltese Government, a friend...

Resistance to change

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

All change brings resistance in its wake... and it comes from those whose interests are going to be badly hit by it... as well as from others who do not understand what it entails or how it could...

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