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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,...

Chronicles of Bobbyland

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 10:48 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I want to discuss briefly some recent goings-on in Bobbyland.  “Bobbyland” comes from an association of ideas. The testimony given by Melvin Theuma in court, in which he said that he...

The assassination: having friends in the right places

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 09:54 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The testimony delivered in Court this week by Melvyn Theuma in the criminal case of Yorgen Fenech, the businessman accused with masterminding the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, is numbing....

Laburist sal-mewt and proud of it

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

No meteor has hit my head and turned me into a Labour Party supporter or apologist. I have always tried to analyse and reach conclusions in the most objective of ways. I am not apolitical and hope...

Beyond the forced euphoria

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 08:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Unless we look closely, we may not notice the huge amount of conditioning we are subjected to on a daily basis. This is political but goes beyond politics. In these troubled Covid times we...

Labour’s parties

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 08:03 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Like the parent of a baby left abandoned on the steps of an orphanage, the identity of the Egrant account of Panama fame remains unknown. There was one instance when it was mentioned that the account...

e-Learning

Friday, 5 June 2020, 06:50 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

The Internet has significantly changed how we communicate with one another as well as how we access, share and facilitate information. The COVID-19 has resulted in schools being shut all over the...

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