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Oddments and questions

Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 09:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Joseph Muscat will resign ‘No circumstance will convince me to contest another election’.  This is what Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had declared just one year ago.  I heard...

We don’t live forever, our legacy does

Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 09:08 Last update: about 7 years ago Camilla Appelgren

Lately, after going out as an MEP candidate with environment at heart, I’ve had so many discussions about if we really can save the human race. It’s no longer about saving the environment,...

Measures needed to avoid social dumping in employment market

Monday, 11 March 2019, 13:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

Nationalist MEP candidate Peter Agius highlights risks of social dumping with the influx of foreign workers from non-EU countries employed at basic rates in industries normally paying higher per hour...

Pollution of the seas

Monday, 11 March 2019, 08:02 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

A friend with good credentials in environmental activism came to tell that we need to beware of assuming that the control over marine pollution around the coasts of Malta is a done thing. According to...

The mirror does not lie

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 11:11 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

At long last and thanks only to the goodness of the present Pope, the Catholic Church is seeking a tough way out of the child abuse nightmare its own clergy has put it through over the centuries. For...

Nature has no vote

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Infrastructure Malta is insensitive to all sorts of ecological issues. It has transformed country lanes in and around valleys into quasi-highways through the indiscriminate use of large amounts of...

Let’s all thank the government for these morsels

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 10:12 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

A Brit who lives in Malta phoned me to celebrate the fact that a most enlightened decision was taken by the Planning Authority in relation to the db tower in Pembroke. More open spaces and fewer...

How Malta celebrated International Women’s Day 2019

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 08:58 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

It was, as everyone knows, International Women’s Day on Friday, observed all over the world.  Women everywhere began the day by sending best wishes for the day to their women contacts on...

The Organisation

Saturday, 9 March 2019, 08:50 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

The situation is now quite absurd.  We are beyond reason, beyond hope and sinking faster than a boulder in the water.  The pressure to endure one fatal attack, one further revelation after...

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