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Ivan Bartolo: solidarity at its best

Tuesday, 1 August 2017, 07:24 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

In a day and an age when a number of politicians and their hangers-on make the headlines for reasons of greed, for making hay while the sun shines, it is quite a change to have a politician in the...

Cancer drugs

Monday, 31 July 2017, 07:24 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

It’s good news that the governent has been enlarging the choice of anti-cancer drugs available for “distribution” to patients. Many of these drugs will have made it quite recently to...

This summer’s ‘telenovela’

Sunday, 30 July 2017, 10:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

As this paper’s sister daily said, the silly season has been put off this year. Or rather, the silly season is here in all its glory all focused on the Nationalist Party leadership telenovela...

The hypocrisy of patriots that do not care about their country

Sunday, 30 July 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

There is no doubt that the Maltese are an extremely patriotic and proud race. One can easily see that from browsing the comments section of any newspaper or social media post. They defend their nation...

Let’s have a brawl

Saturday, 29 July 2017, 09:19 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

The social environment in the country is rapidly deteriorating and nobody seems to care. With regular frequency we are reading and hearing about unruly brawls and violent incidents taking place...

Equality has no corners

Friday, 28 July 2017, 12:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Marlene Mizzi

The saga of the new law that finally brought equality to the concept of marriage in Malta was beset by a whole series of parliamentary exchanges that left many people perplexed, particularly those who...

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