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Opportunity knocks

Saturday, 11 March 2017, 08:58 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

To many, today, politics is just a game and matters little more than notching up your level against other players. To others it is of only passing interest, possibly when some scandal has caused...

Sfronda l-Blue Grotto

Friday, 10 March 2017, 18:43 Last update: about 8 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Fi Brussell kien hemm l-inkwiet. Fotografi u ġurnalisti qed jiġru ġiri sfrenat gol-kuruturi. Min jiskejtzja qisu qiegħed jiżżeffen ġo l-arena...

What is legal is not necessarily acceptable

Friday, 10 March 2017, 10:18 Last update: about 8 years ago Salvu Mallia

What is legal is not necessarily acceptable, Salvu Mallia says in his vlog today. The Nationalist Party candidate says that there are occasions when politicians have used the law to serve their...

The rare window

Friday, 10 March 2017, 09:28 Last update: about 8 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Today our country is in mourning for a loss we all knew could happen but which we never really envisaged would happen in such a sudden and dramatic way. We have lost a natural gem, an icon we were all...

Not that fussed about the rock

Thursday, 9 March 2017, 11:17 Last update: about 8 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The rock arch at Dwejra collapsed yesterday – how could you not have heard? – and the government found it necessary to call a press conference. Yes, that’s right – the...

Parallel economies

Thursday, 9 March 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

A friend told me: We might be getting it wrong when we talk about the Maltese economy as if it were just one entity. Actually it is not: there exists a range of systems which are independent from each...

There’s still a need for Woman’s Day

Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 08:56 Last update: about 8 years ago Miriam Dalli

There is a need for Woman’s Day, as in spite of the advances made in society over the past years, there are still many who believe that women are inferior to men, Labour MEP Miriam Dalli...

‘Gender equality has not yet arrived’

Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 08:21 Last update: about 8 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

On the occasion of Women’s Day, my Faculty issued this position: The Faculty for Social Wellbeing welcomes the general consensus there is in this Country that gender issues should be...

Devious politicians cannot commit to good governance

Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 08:52 Last update: about 8 years ago Gejtu Vella

One may find it hard to grasp, perhaps even harder to absorb, the serious implications of the current goings-on in the local political scenario.  But it is becoming clearer. Government is failing...

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