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Renewable energy

Monday, 17 April 2017, 08:05 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

As a country we are well below the targets we have set (or were they set for us?) regarding the percentage use of renewable energy sources in our total energy consumption. Up to now, the major (if not...

Marine Le Pen and the French presidential elections

Monday, 17 April 2017, 08:03 Last update: about 8 years ago Simon Mercieca

If ever there is going to be an election that will be followed closely, this is going to be the upcoming one in France. Many believe that Marine Le Pen will only make it in the first round. The...

No one is an empty tomb

Sunday, 16 April 2017, 10:45 Last update: about 8 years ago Bishop Mario Grech

No one takes pleasure in failures but these form an integral part of our life. Who has never had to face up to difficulties in one’s emotional, relational, professional, ethical and spiritual...

Simon and the Holy Grail

Sunday, 16 April 2017, 10:06 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

Until a few days ago the websites and the comment spaces were all full of Simon Busuttil’s latest ruse – to rope in Marlene Farrugia as part of his Moviment. PL followers and news...

Coalition building: beyond the arithmetic

Sunday, 16 April 2017, 10:04 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

It is pretty obvious that the primary – and possibly the only – objective that the Nationalist Party seeks to achieve through its proposed ‘coalition’ is to numerically surpass...

Are you being served?

Saturday, 15 April 2017, 08:38 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

The Prime Minister is satisfied to talk to his supporters and other company about surpassing the deficit and making historic achievements whilst throwing shade at the opposition and anyone who has...

Malta getting worse by the second

Friday, 14 April 2017, 14:37 Last update: about 8 years ago Salvu Mallia

The situation in Malta is getting worse by the second, Salvu Mallia says today. In his vlog, the Nationalist Party candidate said that the Maltese people are, by nature, egoistic, and do not see...

The construction lobby has to be curbed, not strengthened

Thursday, 13 April 2017, 10:27 Last update: about 8 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

There seems to be a belief among politicians that the untrammelled influence of the construction lobby is there to be courted rather than curbed. It makes you wonder who they think is actually in...

Good Friday

Thursday, 13 April 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

As was to be expected, what had to happen, happened. In our country too, the modern pressures of consumerism, secularism and I don’t know how many other isms, will continue to permeate the...

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