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Planning the infrastructure of recovery

Sunday, 21 March 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Around 2012, or even earlier, the Labour Party began to use the infamous Fourth Floor where the foundations of the new Labour administration were laid. We now know what this preparation consisted...

The octopus in our midst

Sunday, 21 March 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

During the past weeks we have been witnessing the exposure of a web of criminality which has infiltrated and infected all sectors of our society. Revelations are being made public by instalments, as...

Mentalities

Sunday, 21 March 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

The babbling, ruffled-haired figure of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come out strongly against Britain returning the Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, to their rightful...

Dictatorship?

Saturday, 20 March 2021, 09:02 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

We are living what can be described as a dictatorship in Malta. Nothing short of that. As happens to people in many countries that face this fate, their reality is altered and their life becomes...

Resilience is our trademark

Friday, 19 March 2021, 08:03 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

If there is one feature which stands outs clearly and markedly in the Maltese population, it is resilience. We are a nation of people who know what it means to work hard and know that the greater the...

Looking Back

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 08:22 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

In the controversies and discussions that have continued about the abuse of power and other forms of unacceptable behaviour one discovers how those who are most vocal in denouncing abuses, then shy...

Physical distance, social contact

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 08:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

The high numbers and the respective reproduction rate of Covid-19 are not mere abstractions. Behind the numbers there are deaths and there is suffering.  Even if a person or their loved ones have...

Governance pandemonium

Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 08:32 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

Last week I was on radio while a listener called in saying that ‘Robert Abela wants to kill our senior citizens’. The gentleman then referred to how authorities were sending twice for the...

Joseph Muscat and my epiphany

Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 08:21 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

In 2013 the need for a change in the political landscape was there for all to see.   The state of the Nationalist Party was that of complete disarray. It was a Party that had lost its...

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