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The Gozo cable

Monday, 15 January 2018, 08:34 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

The government is doing very well in launching this year the new “cable” project for a better internet connectivity in Gozo. It has been in the pipeline for a long while, too long. Now...

The lower part of Valletta

Monday, 15 January 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 7 years ago Simon Mercieca

With a certain sense of priority, on Sunday, 7th January, The Malta Independent reported an interview given by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to One Radio. It was stated that this was the Prime...

The rising tide

Sunday, 14 January 2018, 10:58 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

There can be no doubt that John Sweeney’s ‘Artful Dodger’ jibe at Prime Minister Muscat was an intentional insult on prime time on ‘the world’s favourite station’,...

Thank-you, Ryan; thank-you, Clayton

Sunday, 14 January 2018, 10:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

I was present for both public sessions of the Planning Authority Board’s meetings to discuss the planning application for a petrol station on Salini Road, Magħtab. The first meeting,...

Resolutions

Friday, 12 January 2018, 08:03 Last update: about 7 years ago Alex Muscat

The beginning of January is normally the time to start making resolutions for the year ahead. We look back at what we think could have been done better during the previous year, and...

Nature abhors a vacuum

Friday, 12 January 2018, 08:02 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

This is a law of science true as any other law, like Newton’s laws of motion, which we are so accustomed to. Nature, scientists tell us, contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding...

AUM benefiting from the ‘So What Attitude’

Thursday, 11 January 2018, 08:35 Last update: about 7 years ago Therese Comodini Cachia

The project bid considered by NCFHE for the issue of the license to run a University made it clear that it was a Foundation and not Sadeen Education Investments Limited who was responsible for the...

NGO?

Thursday, 11 January 2018, 07:52 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

I’ve already raised the question before, but it bears repeating. How should the Catholic Church in today’s Malta be considered? As a leading institution in the island? Or as a...

A comatose church

Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 08:21 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The past few weeks should have been the moment when the Church re-groups and in a way celebratesits most important message, ‘that of Jesus turning up to help sort us...

I have hope –The President of the Republic of Malta

Tuesday, 9 January 2018, 08:28 Last update: about 7 years ago Gejtu Vella

After the hullaballoo of the festive season, people have now returned to their daily routines and commitments, whatever these may be. I believe that people would now go back to reading newspapers and...

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