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The dark side of partisan politics

Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 08:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

Malta’s national agenda has always been highly politicised, even marred with the blood of innocent Maltese citizens.  It was only on few occasions that national unity was close to be...

Europe and Gozitan expectations

Monday, 30 October 2017, 07:27 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

During a meeting held at Marsalforn about Gozitan expectations regarding Europe, many interesting points were raised. Among these were jobs for young people in Gozo and the consideration of Gozo as a...

Delia left alone

Monday, 30 October 2017, 07:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia has shifted attention from the budget to this heinous murder. I would have expected that such an assassination would have united the Nationalist...

The crusade for change in the face of partisan ignorance

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

I knew this would happen; I knew that the public outpouring of grief and calls for change would have an expiry date for some of the less genuine members of the population. It seems that some people...

Daphne’s life-long quest is still very much alive

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 10:31 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Maybe I am one who needs all the dots joining together. Until last Sunday, I thought that the grief and outrage at Daphne Caruana Galizia’s gruesome murder was, should have been, the...

Bloodshed in Bidnija

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 09:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Daphne is dead, brutally murdered in a hamlet few people outside Malta had ever heard of before. The initial shock left us dumbstruck. Before we had gathered our thoughts, the PN had returned to its...

Danger in Paradise

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 10:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Our islands have often been called a little paradise or a jewel in the Mediterranean.  On tourist brochures, postcards, documentaries, historical accounts and even amongst us, its own...

Setting the record straight

Friday, 27 October 2017, 10:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Alex Muscat

Daphne Caruana Galizia was one of the most controversial women in Maltese history. She was neither a saint nor a villain. In one article she could do investigative journalism like no other, in the...

A sound basis for the future

Friday, 27 October 2017, 07:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Marlene Mizzi

The tragic event last week of the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia put a halt to all routine activities on these Islands. People simply had to stop and contemplate over the issue of the freedom of...

Waste disposal

Thursday, 26 October 2017, 07:19 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

I found a document that dates from some seventeen years back published by the Malta government of the time regarding the problem of waste disposal and how to deal with it. The analysis of the problem...

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