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The price of bread

Tuesday, 7 August 2018, 09:55 Last update: about 9 years ago Michael Briguglio

Nationalist Party European Parliament candidate Michael Briguglio today speaks about the price of bread and its effects on low-income earners....

Escaping the frontline

Tuesday, 7 August 2018, 09:43 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

I was choking. Looking around me, the ever increasing amount of buildings crept closer, the dust filling my lungs and no shade wherever I went looking for it. The scorching sun, warmer than ever...

Deeply or widely

Monday, 6 August 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

Public and private investment projects are being undertaken across a really wide front. Those which are most salient and have most impact, not always in a positive way, happen to be in the...

Are the Maltese racists? Or are they worried with security?

Monday, 6 August 2018, 07:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

After Salvini became Minister of the Interior in Italy, those in Malta supporting his high-handedness in dealing with illegal migration began being branded racists. But are these individuals truly...

On top of the heap

Sunday, 5 August 2018, 10:55 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

I honestly cannot understand the euphoria that accompanied the conclusions of the Bugeja inquiry on the Egrant claims. Or rather, I can perhaps understand the immense relief with which the Muscat...

Slime and grime, ‘Oh my Malta’ indeed

Sunday, 5 August 2018, 10:17 Last update: about 9 years ago Alice Taylor

I do not live in Malta; I left officially around eight months ago. After spending over a decade calling the island home, the place I once knew and loved had become unrecognisable to me so I upped...

Unsolved mysteries

Saturday, 4 August 2018, 09:42 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

The amount of unsolved mysteries in Malta is piling up quicker than the rubbish outside restaurants.  Case after case of unsolved murders, gone silent because we are not supposed to ask questions...

Better and better

Friday, 3 August 2018, 14:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Owen Bonnici

In the immediate aftermath of the 2013 general election, there was a general feeling in the country that the huge electoral defeat suffered by the Nationalist Party at the polls would serve as a...

Losing out

Thursday, 2 August 2018, 09:35 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

It is disquieting that while in the economic and “classical” social welfare sectors, progress has been strong, the same cannot be said with regard to the environment. Other countries...

The small pieces make the big picture

Tuesday, 31 July 2018, 10:14 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

What do you picture in your mind when I say the words ‘severe littering’? I bet that most of you will have thought of piles of plastic bottles, plastic bags and dumping sites. The...

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