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Zero waste: a 2050 target

Sunday, 26 November 2017, 08:19 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Malta's Waste Management Strategy for 2014-20 establishes the year 2050 as the one by which our society should achieve a zero waste target. In fact the first of four principles of Malta's national...

Government should not rest on its laurels

Friday, 24 November 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 10 years ago Miriam Dalli

The government should not rest on its laurels, but continue to work hard on the reforms it plans to introduce, Labour MEP Miriam Dalli said. She was speaking after survey results show that the...

Accessibility without discrimination: open up the cul-de-sac

Thursday, 23 November 2017, 08:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Marlene Mizzi

The rampant, world-wide growth of the digital economy within an increasingly digital society can only be described as breathtaking. It is positive, strong and moving at hurricane speed, and yet it...

Polarisation

Thursday, 23 November 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

It is true that political discourse in this country has again gotten greatly polarised during the past few weeks. I will not say here who I think is responsible, though I have no doubt about who...

Ward 10

Wednesday, 22 November 2017, 08:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Thankfully most of you would not have witnessed the obnoxious and insufferable Ward 10.  Ward 10 is the infamous Ward that ‘used’ to exist in Mt Carmel Hospital.  Even the...

San Martin did not make it to Strasbourg

Wednesday, 22 November 2017, 08:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

While people on these Islands enjoyed the pleasant annual San Martin tradition, with its sacksful of goodies for children and grandchildren, and the mild temperatures that prevailed on that mid-Autumn...

Beyond the Strasbourg debate

Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 08:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Last week’s debate in the European Parliament on the rule of law in Malta revealed that all the political parties are preoccupied with the matter and the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia...

The most valuable lessons aren’t taught, they’re experienced

Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 08:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

The following is an excerpt from the resignation letter penned by Priti Patel, former UK International Development Secretary addressed to Theresa May, UK prime minister "As you know from our...

Compass

Monday, 20 November 2017, 07:58 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

For a while, the Times of Malta seemed to have cooled the anti-Labour urges which were considered part and parcel of its DNA. It kept somewhat aloof from anti-Labour controversies that would emerge....

The police force and the European Parliament

Monday, 20 November 2017, 07:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

Following the publication of my previous blog in which I referred to Harold Scorey,  I have received some interesting reactions which I wish to share. It has been pointed out to me...

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