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X Factor: A story of skulduggery and Bendlu Gamumillu

Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 08:41 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

One of the biggest challenges this country has had to face these last 17 weeks has been resolved.  No, it isn’t the Corinthia land dispute or the Leader of the Opposition’s calamities...

Never underestimate the power of the people

Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 09:45 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

A very question I am asked regularly is whether I think that things improving in Malta when it comes to the environment.  This question is usually asked in a negative one, like if the one asking...

6 MEPs can do a lot for Malta, if they work together

Monday, 28 January 2019, 10:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Peter Agius

In a vlog from the European Parliament in Brussels MEP candidate & former head of European Parliament Office responds to public questions doubting the impact of 6 Maltese MEPs in a chamber of...

Governance

Monday, 28 January 2019, 07:39 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

It is disturbing to note how the discussion about governance in Malta has come to be dominated by outside interventions made by people with opaque and suspicious agendas. For there has been and...

Should Manuel Delia’s ghosts silence him?

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 12:08 Last update: about 9 years ago Victor Calleja

There are many stories which feature ghosts. Whether we believe in them or not,they always seem to have an effect on us. They come back to haunt us and shake us out of our comfort zones. Manuel...

Free public transport

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 11:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is right when he emphasises the need to have free public transport. Public transport is much better today than when we were subject to the Arriva fiasco piloted by Austin...

It’s my party, and I’ll do what I want to

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I think it was unfair that the cake was served only to the Cabinet on the day our Prime Minister turned 45. That cake should have been served to the entire Labour parliamentary group to reflect the...

Emm... no way, Mr Imam

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 09:48 Last update: about 9 years ago Charles Flores

Despite the flippant title, this piece is not meant to disparage Imam Mohammed el Sadi, Islam’s representative on the island, but merely to ask him to stop making statements that rub so many of...

We have missed the bus

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 09:05 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

As a country, we have still not woken up to the very real possibility that the UK will crash out of the EU on 29th March and what that may mean for us. Our coverage of the events unfolding in...

Indepth: Musical chairs to blame for fuel station talks - GRTU CEO

Saturday, 26 January 2019, 09:49 Last update: about 9 years ago INDEPTH online

Changes in personnel negotiating with the GRTU resulted in discussions on the ongoing fuel stations issue having to start "from scratch," says its CEO Abigail Mamo on this week's episode of Indepth,...

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