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Mandatory vasectomies for all

Sunday, 1 April 2018, 10:54 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

Since the beginning of time, it is women who have been given responsibility for their sexuality, fertility and for taking steps to control whether or not they procreate. We'll put aside for now the...

Breaking with traditions

Sunday, 1 April 2018, 09:56 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

It is undoubtedly the most traditional week of the Maltese year, but it has also become the time when traditions are ignored. Up to a few years ago, the organization Puttinu did not exist except...

Hard work

Friday, 30 March 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Owen Bonnici

In politics it is hard work and results which make all the difference. Mud-slinging and name-calling certainly does not.  Rather, as the last two general election results show us, they leave...

UK drifting away..or is it?

Friday, 30 March 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 10 years ago David Stellini

“Mais t’es devenue petite Nonna!” “Oh you’ve gotten shorter grandma!” Those were the first words my 6 year old uttered when he met his grandma yesterday as she...

The next five

Thursday, 29 March 2018, 09:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Alex Muscat

In just five years of a Labour government, Malta has changed radically for the better. The priorities of the Maltese have also changed a lot, with bread and...

Misadventures of a square

Thursday, 29 March 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Unless we watch out, the square that fronts the church of St Mary (“the old church”) in B’kara could end up as an image, a model, for the island as a whole. This is not the first...

Everyone is joining the dots… except the ‘wise’ men

Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 13:28 Last update: about 10 years ago Marthese Portelli

Wake up call from the Courts …. Pilatus Bank, Gaffarena.  Precisely a week ago, we woke up to the news that Pilatus Bank Chairman Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad had been arrested in the United...

The cleansing of the temple

Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 08:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

In the countdown before Easter, in-between blessed activities (ranging from processions to enactments) and getting the odd couple of days of trips and indulging, I find the narrative of the Cleaning...

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