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The good and the bad

Thursday, 14 May 2020, 07:32 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Since we’ve been pushing back the corona virus pandemic... for slightly less than three months though it feels like it’s been much longer... we had to learn how to live our lives...

Reclaiming space

Thursday, 14 May 2020, 07:09 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, a few days ago, Maltese society witnessed two opposing claims regarding public spaces. Ministers Ian Borg and Jose Herrera and Local Councils Association President...

‘I have great faith in this people’ – President of Malta

Wednesday, 13 May 2020, 06:04 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The annual Faculty for Social Wellbeing seminar took the form of a webinar whereby the President of Malta, HE Dr George Vella acceded to a Q&A led by the Research Support Officer Samantha Pace...

A towering loophole

Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 07:04 Last update: about 7 years ago Tara Cassar

The Planning Authority received over 380 objections calling for the refusal of the 31-storey hotel proposed over the Fort Cambridge ex-Military Barracks in Tigné Sliema. If approved, this...

HORECA

Monday, 11 May 2020, 08:02 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Clearly, among the workers whose employment has been most under threat by the Coronavirus pandemic are those in the hospitality, restaurant and catering sectors.  The way by which the pandemic...

‘Thank you for existing’

Sunday, 10 May 2020, 11:01 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

When we still lived in the best of times under her spouse’s reign of progress, when the system ran on positive thought and money grew instead of trees, when phenomenal deals were struck in style...

Climate Change: after the Covid-19 rehearsal

Sunday, 10 May 2020, 10:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Covid-19 virus has rattled each one of us, throwing all into unprecedented turmoil. This is however child’s play when contrasted with the anticipated impacts of climate change in respect of...

Isn’t this a pattern of permissible hate?

Sunday, 10 May 2020, 09:24 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

In the last few weeks, when the world is ablaze with the Coronavirus horror, too many incidents are happening which should jolt us into action or a show of public anger. But nothing happens, barring a...

The real brave new world

Sunday, 10 May 2020, 09:05 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Many times in the past days I have been reminded of the title of the famous 1932 book by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. Just by the title only for the book's content cannot be referenced to...

The fat belly

Saturday, 9 May 2020, 07:07 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Hatred is alive and well in Malta.  It functions daily and colours the social media with all kinds of disgusting and unimaginable speech, spewing from a belly that is toxic and morbid with...

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