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Hosanna – Hosanna to a new beginning

Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 08:26 Last update: about 8 years ago Gejtu Vella

Good governance was, and hopefully still is, a promise that can be fulfilled by a political party in future.  It is sad that the current administration has failed to deliver on this promise. In...

Gozo Regional Council

Monday, 10 April 2017, 07:51 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

I never thought it a good idea to spend time mulling over the past and how life leads back to what should have already been done but was not. Still there are times when it is not possible to keep away...

Authority, not truth, makes Law

Monday, 10 April 2017, 07:50 Last update: about 8 years ago Simon Mercieca

This year, the Augustinian Province in Malta is celebrating its bicentenary of ‘independence’ from Sicily. In 1817, after forty years of arduous lobbying, this community, in Malta,...

The KMB strategy

Sunday, 9 April 2017, 08:55 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

I do not know whether it was planned or not but the announcement Malta had a surplus came right in the nick of time. It came on the last day of the EPP congress in Malta, pulling the carpet out...

The mess created by Franco Debono

Sunday, 9 April 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The current controversy as to whether it is appropriate for the Electoral Commission to be the authority overseeing the implementation of the Financing of Political Parties Act was anticipated over...

All in a day’s work

Saturday, 8 April 2017, 09:06 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

Rumblings coming out of our sister island, Gozo, have increased significantly.  For a small island with its own Ministry and its own budget, it has lately been in the news for rather the wrong...

PN’s first obligation is towards Malta, not party

Friday, 7 April 2017, 09:51 Last update: about 8 years ago Salvu Mallia

The Nationalist Party’s first obligation should be towards Malta, not towards its internal affairs, PN candidate Salvu Mallia says today. In his vlog on The Malta Independent, Salvu Mallia...

Our public healthcare system: soon to treat us as second-class

Friday, 7 April 2017, 08:23 Last update: about 8 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Vitals Global Healthcare is the private entity taking over the running of three public hospitals. Don't be misled by the 'Global' in the name: they are the first hospitals ever to be run by VGH. And...

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