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Locked up

Saturday, 12 September 2020, 07:39 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

This week we have seen the terrible effects that incarceration, not properly administered, can bring.  Utter devastation on human and animal life. In one case, that of the locked up dogs...

The impact of not returning to school

Friday, 11 September 2020, 07:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

Education ministers and policymakers together with Health Authorities and the World Health Organisation made the decision about children returning to school for the coming scholastic year after an...

Tax structures

Thursday, 10 September 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

At the OECD which groups the more developed capitalist economies, they seem to be coming close to a new agreement regarding how tax structures can be harmonised in the different countries. This would...

Red herrings, anyone?

Thursday, 10 September 2020, 06:31 Last update: about 7 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

This summer seems to have stimulated our junior minister for equality, Rosianne Cutajar.  She is taking action on an array of laws.  She is feeding the media with spicy issues intended to...

Oh, the hatred!

Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 06:28 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The hatred spewed in this country the moment ‘migration’ comes on the agenda is unbelievable It is no longer, in my opinion, a question of fear but outright abhorrence and...

Of the misplaced state of state intervention

Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 06:27 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

The most delicate balancing act of governing a country must be securing just the right level of public intervention needed to address societal challenges. While theories and political positions have...

Our future is up to you, not our politicians

Tuesday, 8 September 2020, 07:27 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

With what's been going on this year, rumination has become the order of the day. Many hours a week are spent thinking, reflecting and wondering how in this day and age of globalisation we are...

The self-employed and the crisis

Monday, 7 September 2020, 07:35 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Not all the self-employed have done badly out of the corona virus pandemic, but those who have, really got a bad hit. Along with the so-called micro enterprises which employ very few people,...

Where has all the oompah gone?

Sunday, 6 September 2020, 10:56 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

I vividly remember the days in the early 90s when Maltese broadcasting was just about to be thrust open and pluralism introduced. While those of us employed at the national broadcaster got into the...

Green rights through Constitutional reform

Sunday, 6 September 2020, 10:32 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The forthcoming Constitutional Convention, whenever it happens, is an opportunity to entrench green rights in the Constitution. This can be carried out through spelling out such rights unequivocally...

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