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The real issues

Sunday, 30 June 2019, 08:38 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

This long never-ending PN saga is getting many people mind-bogglingly bored. The extremely hot weather, the many distractions around, plus the fact that the final outcome is still uncertain –...

Fulfilling electoral pledges

Friday, 28 June 2019, 08:10 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

Three theatre spaces will be benefitting from funds for major structural works following the evaluation of applications submitted under strand 2 of the Theatre Spaces Funding Scheme - another...

Constitutional changes

Thursday, 27 June 2019, 14:26 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

Consultations seem to be happening in one way or another, about necessary changes that have long been mentioned to be made to the Constitution. Personally, I remain doubtful about how necessary these...

Too little, too late, too foreign

Thursday, 27 June 2019, 13:34 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

Whatever Joseph Muscat and his band of crooks do now is just too late. No amount of trying to patch up will wash the situation clean. The Council of Europe report which was approved by a huge...

Post-Lassana execution: what now?

Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 09:03 Last update: about 8 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

With an information overload we are used to nowadays, it doesn't take long, for a cataclysmic event to be forgotten in a jiffy as new events move up the ladder of our news portals.  Whether this...

A Tale of Two Scheduled Sites

Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 08:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Tara Cassar

Last Thursday the Planning Board refused an application that sought to turn the 19th century Villa Leoni property in St Julians into a multi-storey hotel. The application would have resulted in the...

Weak institutions

Monday, 24 June 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

A problem that has become increasingly obvious over the years is that the regulatory and executive institutions of this country have remained weak. One government after the other allowed them to get...

A timid Opposition, Malta Air and other matters

Sunday, 23 June 2019, 10:29 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

A couple of weeks ago, the most PN-loving newspaper in Malta, Malta Today, ran an editorial calling on the PN to adopt a more socially-liberal agenda. Needless to say, it is MaltaToday that would like...

Managing conflict of interest at the Planning Authority

Sunday, 23 June 2019, 10:19 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The validity of the planning permit in respect of the dB project at Pembroke has been contested on the basis of 18 different reasons, ranging from conflict of interest to misinterpretation and/or...

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