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Parking at Mater Dei Hospital

Sunday, 5 January 2020, 09:56 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Within the context of the electoral campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party, Minister for Health Chris Fearne announced that, shortly, parking at the Mater Dei Hospital grounds will be free of...

Blueprint for the Labour Party leader

Sunday, 5 January 2020, 09:23 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

If this were a normal country, going through a normal phase, I would not need to write this. But these are exceptionally bad times of a country riven by unimaginable problems.  So the bloody...

Back to where we were

Sunday, 5 January 2020, 08:57 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

As we prepare to take down the tinsel, return the pasturi to their boxes, and return our houses to normalcy, we face a return to where we were before the final onset of the Yuletide...

What the hack?

Saturday, 4 January 2020, 09:49 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

Chris Fearne’s inane comments about RIPN, once, twice over, have only served to radicalise the opinion that democracy in the form of an elected government to serve all the people has no chance...

Winner takes all

Thursday, 2 January 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

When voting, time after time, the Maltese people decided that they would only choose between two parties. If in future democratically they do decide differently... say for having three to four...

Accountability

Monday, 30 December 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

How shall accountability in Malta be established on a serious basis? This is one of the major challenges that the new Prime Minister will have to face. Without undermining the foundations on...

The Last Days

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 11:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

When Joseph Muscat announced he would be resigning (not out of a sense of right and wrong, but because his back was against the wall), I immediately formed the intention of writing a "trilogy"....

New political era beckons?

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 8 years ago Charles Flores

Well, we have been asking this same question since way back in the very early Seventies, when Dom Mintoff’s Labour Party finally made it back to power after the tragic events of the previous...

Labour is morally and politically bankrupt

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:30 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Joseph Muscat and his Labour Party are morally and politically bankrupt. The responsibility for the current state of affairs rests primarily on Joseph Muscat’s shoulder as Prime Minister and...

The Christmas message that could have been

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

In the 15-minute sermon Bishop Grech read out, he spoke about the open wounds of society and the bandages that cover them. Christ then treats these injuries with his love. It is a beautiful allegory,...

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