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Sleeping with the enemy

Sunday, 14 June 2020, 09:21 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

Oh, glorious no! Another dig at the dear, charming and democratically elected leader of the PN.  I have been told that writing about Adrian Delia, who is also the leader of the opposition, is...

A Covid death

Sunday, 14 June 2020, 08:22 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

As I was writing my column last week, my family was shocked by the news that a close family friend had been diagnosed with Covid and was in a bad state in a UK hospital.  This person had a lung...

Pizza Capricciosa

Saturday, 13 June 2020, 07:26 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

First we were told to go swimming.  Now we have been told to go and get our tummies full, have a night on the town and end the evening with a sweet pillow to lay our heads on.  What more...

A better tomorrow

Friday, 12 June 2020, 07:27 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

The latest statistics by Eurostat show that Malta had the second biggest increase in jobs after Lithuania between January and last March. Eurostat also stated that jobs – as an average –...

Among those who left

Thursday, 11 June 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

It has been said that as a result of the corona virus pandemic, “thousands” of foreign workers left or will be leaving Malta, mostly because they lost their job. It would be...

The budget in context

Thursday, 11 June 2020, 07:14 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

Last Monday’s budgetary package consisted of measures designed to kickstart the economy.  The government’s €900 million package includes various incentives and forms of...

Loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic

Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 08:07 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

During these last years, the Faculty for Social Wellbeing has continued to validate its ethos by responding in a timely fashion to issues that are happening around us and providing empirical data that...

Why small changes could have a big impact

Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 07:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Tara Cassar

Last Tuesday, the Planning Authority initiated the public consultation process on a proposed amendment to the Development Notification Order [DNO] legislation. Through this proposed amendment,...

How we bought

Monday, 8 June 2020, 06:11 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Data about retail sales in eurozone countries for the months of March and April make for interesting comparisons. During those two months dominated by the corona virus pandemic, as a eurozone average,...

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