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What are we left with?

Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 09:54 Last update: about 8 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

After these eventful days and weeks;  - We are left with an assassinated journalist (and a family still unable to bereave); - We are left with an Opposition that is trying to juggle (I...

Planning decisions – more of the same?

Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 08:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Tara Cassar

Last Friday, it was announced that following the resignation of ex-CEO Johann Buttigieg, Martin Saliba had been chosen as the new head of the Planning Authority. Until last week, Martin Saliba...

The last week

Monday, 2 December 2019, 08:22 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

For the Maltese people, this past week was one of great tension. It could hardly have been otherwise as with high speed, developments in the investigations about the atrocious killing of Mrs Caruana...

Angry and betrayed

Sunday, 1 December 2019, 11:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

As a matter of fact, all of us feel angry and betrayed. Some of us have been doing something about it for the past three years and more, though. I know it is bad manners (so I ask to be forgiven), but...

Those who do not deserve this

Sunday, 1 December 2019, 10:14 Last update: about 8 years ago Charles Flores

The burning issue concerning the brutal murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia has, for the past two years, taken a two-headed route – one rightly and overwhelmingly pointing for justice to be made,...

Reflections on a turbulent week

Sunday, 1 December 2019, 10:02 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

As things stand, at this point in time Yorgen Fenech may end up carrying the can on his own. So far, apparently, none of the co-conspirators indicated in the information making the rounds will be...

Even the blackest day can be sunny

Sunday, 1 December 2019, 08:59 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

When Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally murdered, I died inside and lost my will. My soul felt brutalised. I felt I had lost everything and wanted to give up on everything. I was 61 at the time. Even if the situation in Malta was desperate, I had never felt deprived of all hope. My optimism had always got...

They changed Pjazza Helsien into a denial of freedom

Sunday, 1 December 2019, 08:49 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

I am writing this article, exceptionally, on Wednesday night, having seen countless videos – thanks to today’s smartphones, everyone has become a reporter – of the shenanigans...

The pebble in the shoe

Saturday, 30 November 2019, 10:02 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

The latest psycho-babble by Joseph Muscat is “the pebble in the shoe”.   Cryptic and pathetic, the speak of the desperate.     By the time you are reading...

In our country’s interest

Friday, 29 November 2019, 08:07 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

We are going through testing times. All eyes are focused on the facts which unfolded in the last days and how we, as a country, are reacting to these circumstances.  Future generations will...

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