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Pollution of the seas

Monday, 11 March 2019, 08:02 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

A friend with good credentials in environmental activism came to tell that we need to beware of assuming that the control over marine pollution around the coasts of Malta is a done thing. According to...

The mirror does not lie

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 11:11 Last update: about 9 years ago Charles Flores

At long last and thanks only to the goodness of the present Pope, the Catholic Church is seeking a tough way out of the child abuse nightmare its own clergy has put it through over the centuries. For...

Nature has no vote

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Infrastructure Malta is insensitive to all sorts of ecological issues. It has transformed country lanes in and around valleys into quasi-highways through the indiscriminate use of large amounts of...

Let’s all thank the government for these morsels

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 10:12 Last update: about 9 years ago Victor Calleja

A Brit who lives in Malta phoned me to celebrate the fact that a most enlightened decision was taken by the Planning Authority in relation to the db tower in Pembroke. More open spaces and fewer...

How Malta celebrated International Women’s Day 2019

Sunday, 10 March 2019, 08:58 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

It was, as everyone knows, International Women’s Day on Friday, observed all over the world.  Women everywhere began the day by sending best wishes for the day to their women contacts on...

The Organisation

Saturday, 9 March 2019, 08:50 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

The situation is now quite absurd.  We are beyond reason, beyond hope and sinking faster than a boulder in the water.  The pressure to endure one fatal attack, one further revelation after...

Our 10th President of the Republic

Friday, 8 March 2019, 08:32 Last update: about 9 years ago Owen Bonnici

An honour for Zejtun, an honour for Malta: this is how I described Dr George Vella's nomination to be Malta's next President.  Unanimously approved by the Cabinet and the Parliamentary...

Safeguarding the pharmaceutical sector – Francis Zammit Dimech

Thursday, 7 March 2019, 14:12 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit speaks about his work at the European Parliament to safeguard the pharmaceutical sector, an economic sector that reached our shores that to a PN administration and which...

Hate speech

Thursday, 7 March 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

It is good that there is a growing awareness of the harm that is done when hate speech, as it has been labelled, is indulged in, especially in the social media. With it too is sometimes coupled speech...

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