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Grech or Abela and Malta

Sunday, 28 March 2021, 10:54 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

The media have reported that Prime Minister Robert Abela told the Police to investigate Vince Muscat’s claim that one of his Ministers is linked to a “big job”. Now this raises a...

A mess by design

Sunday, 28 March 2021, 10:04 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Did you ever wonder why it is possible for the land use planning regulator in Malta to be in such a mess? Just take a look at the criminal proceedings currently under way on money laundering. A former...

Same Labour, same tricks

Sunday, 28 March 2021, 09:06 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

After the 1971 election, won by Dom Mintoff’s Labour Party, former minister Sandy (Alexander) Cachia Zammit and his brother Lawrence were arrested and charged with stealing government property...

A poor workman blames his tools

Saturday, 27 March 2021, 11:38 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

In an article on Illum on 23rd March, Peppi Azzopardi lifted a stone. Underneath he found a whole colony of voters who would vote for Joseph Muscat big time. All this because they bought a car that...

Jason and the non-lawyer Minister

Friday, 26 March 2021, 09:14 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

It all started at the end of last October when Nationalist MP Dr Jason Azzopardi was being interviewed by Andrew Azzopardi on 103 Malta's Heart.   In that interview – and I...

Creative times

Thursday, 25 March 2021, 08:53 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

The times we live in are driven by change, by happenings that are unprecedented in the nation's life. Above all, there has been the Covid-19 pandemic - even if it has affected this country in the same...

Turning a new page

Thursday, 25 March 2021, 08:26 Last update: about 7 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The dramatic events which took place on Saturday in court shook the country to its core. While some may have been genuinely surprised at the outcome, many were not surprised at all - yet they still...

Justice delayed

Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 08:15 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

Justice delayed is justice denied. While it does invoke a feeling of political retribution, Keith Schembri’s arrest is but a reminder of how justice was missing in action for so many years,...

Namelessness and facelessness

Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 07:45 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

50 years or so ago, the University of Stanford’s psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo and his research team set out to investigate ‘power’ and how it is perceived by people who are...

Interest rates and inflation

Monday, 22 March 2021, 08:20 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

An ongoing debate between central banks now focuses on whether we are entering a period in which inflation will gather. For quite a while, price rises have been almost totally extinguished. This...

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