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Spiritual Joe

Saturday, 4 May 2019, 10:15 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

True to form, the Labour Party stole the show on Workers’ Day in their usual possessive fashion.  So dependent is the heart of the party on affirmation, on vocal and physical pictures, like...

Higher skills for a better pay

Friday, 3 May 2019, 09:24 Last update: about 8 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Zammit Dimech that according to Eurostat data, Malta has wages which are below EU average and registered the lowest increase in wages across the EU. Furthermore, Eurostat data shows...

Implementing more reforms in the justice sector

Friday, 3 May 2019, 08:07 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

On Thursday we published a bill which sees to the separation of the Attorney General’s present dual functions. This confirms yet again our commitment to further reform in this sector. From...

Challenges and opportunities

Thursday, 2 May 2019, 16:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Miriam Dalli

Labour MEP and candidate for the upcoming elections Miriam Dalli looks back at the business breakfast meeting organised in conjunction with The Malta Business Weekly last week to speak about today's...

Social media

Thursday, 2 May 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

During this campaign for elections to the European Parliament, as well as during that for the last general elections, the general view has been that the best tool with which to get messages across,...

St Gregory festa

Monday, 29 April 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

I had last been at Marsaxlokk in the afternoon for the St Gregory festa quite a long while ago. This year the weather was not so nice but the crowd that gathered was happy and in the mood to enjoy...

From ships to women

Sunday, 28 April 2019, 10:47 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Why is life worth living? Why do we want to cling to this ‘vale of tears’ at all costs? Because tears can be shed because of sorrow and they can also be shed because of hilarity (and...

Environmental common sense is green in colour

Sunday, 28 April 2019, 10:22 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Over two years ago, on 20 March 2017, the Planning Authority’s Executive Council threw out a Planning Control application intended to determine the nature of permissible development in a stretch...

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